@Iseknutz said in MagicMirror on Pi Zero W:

I installed the image from https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/1183/how-i-got-my-magic-mirror-working-on-a-raspberry-pi-0-zero/84 , updated the System to use the onboard wifi and this works for me.

@Iseknutz
At least I can get this method up and running on my RPI0w, but what’s the trick to updating the system to use the onboard wifi? I’ve created the wpa_supplicant.conf and I’ve even jacked with the etc/network/interfaces - but no luck getting it to connect to the network.
Thx

@CaptnJB @Iseknutz

Silly me! I should have known that to get a wifi adapter to work I needed a wifi adapter!
Fortunately I had a usb splitter with power supply and an edimax wifi lying around.

After the update and upgrade its working well.
Your help was greatly appreciated.
Thanks from Texas!
KLM

@Iseknutz
What do you mean by “after the Update to the actual OS”? I used the image linked above. I can’t do an update/upgrade as I have no internet connection. I’m using the console on the Pi and editing my conf in Mint Linux. I’m using Jessie Lite rather than the full install.

@CaptnJB
Thanks for the rewrite on the wpa_supplicant, but it still won’t connect to any provided wifi network.

Thanks to all.

@CaptnJB
here is the wpa_supplicant.conf file - or at least the latest rendition of it.

country=US
ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=netdev
update_config=1

network={
    ssid="KLM-Guest"
    key_mgmt=NONE
    priority=1
    id_str="guest"
}

network={
    ssid="mywebsite.com"
    psk="oldasspw"
    priority=2
    id_str="klm"
}

My regular old wifi network name has a “.” in the name and I thought that might cause some problems. So, I set up a second guest wifi network so this device wouldn’t need a password.

@Iseknutz said in MagicMirror on Pi Zero W:

I installed the image from https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/1183/how-i-got-my-magic-mirror-working-on-a-raspberry-pi-0-zero/84 , updated the System to use the onboard wifi and this works for me.

@Iseknutz
At least I can get this method up and running on my RPI0w, but what’s the trick to updating the system to use the onboard wifi? I’ve created the wpa_supplicant.conf and I’ve even jacked with the etc/network/interfaces - but no luck getting it to connect to the network.
Thx

Same here, clean install on RPI3 with regular Raspbian Jessie.

Sorry - have no help for you, but I’m really interested to see if you can get this to work on a $15 board.
Thanks for giving it a shot.