
This setup requires no monitor, or external keyboard, not even the OTG USB cable (I it bought because I thought I needed it). That said, I highly recommend replacing some of the manual setup steps in this post by using rpi-imager instead! I might pick up another rPi Zero if they release a new version in the future, at which time I will update this post.
At the time, I setup a Raspberry Pi Zero W from scratch to confirm these exact steps still worked, however I have since passed along my rPi Zero W to someone else so I cannot support this article with newer Raspbian versions.


This was last updated in 2019 after it was published and confirmed to work with up to, and including, Raspbian Buster Lite + macOS Mojave.
