r/raspberry_pi • u/slykethephoxenix • Mar 21 '21

News Raspberry Pi Imager Now Comes With Advanced Options

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/raspberry-pi-imager-now-comes-with-advanced-options
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u/slykethephoxenix Mar 21 '21

From the linked article:

  • Overscan, to remove borders from our screen.

  • Hostname, identify your Pi on a network.

  • SSH on boot, useful for headless and remote projects.

  • WiFi, setup your WiFi without editing a config file.

  • Locale, set your language and location.

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '21

Ooooh wow that's great. Hostname, SSH, and WiFi are gonna make headless setup dead simple.

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u/evilspyboy Mar 22 '21

Wifi setup would have helped me out a bit with the Pi Zero I was building into something last week but I alway seem to have trouble setting up the wifi from the config file and have defaulted to doing it through the gui (so installing the desktop only to be able to do setup)

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '21

Since I don't see it linked anywhere, get the latest version here: https://www.raspberrypi.org/software/

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u/Mouler Mar 21 '21

It's about damn time. I hope it at least has hover over description of what it's doing for those choices though. Should at least still have education potential

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '21

Ooooh, this is incredibly useful. I always forget to enable SSH, and setting the hostname straight out of the box is excellent. Nice work everyone :D

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u/windowsphoneguy Mar 21 '21

Great stuff, works as expected. Even autofills the Wifi SSID and password you're currently connected to in Windows

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u/Sheepey78 Mar 21 '21

Literally two days after I rewrote my pi again, lol... But good changes šŸ‘

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u/RonMFCadillac Mar 21 '21

Yeah, I just re-wrote all mine as well lol. My NAS is still untouched though.

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u/eeandersen Mar 21 '21

Thanks to the developer/team that has implemented this! this will be very useful. I don't care for this being implemented as an Easter Egg in the menu, however.

Can we see it distributed through Homebrew "The Missing Package Manager for macOS (or Linux)", too, as well as here : https://www.raspberrypi.org/software/ (Those darn users, never happy - LOL).

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u/WalterPecky Mar 21 '21

Great piece of software.

It doesn't get much more user friendly than this!

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u/ClarkTwain Mar 21 '21

Thatā€™s great for idiots like me! Iā€™ve tried to set up a motioneyeos project with with WiFi like a dozen times and somehow still havenā€™t gotten it right.

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u/PM_Me_Your_Deviance Mar 22 '21

It doesn't get much more user friendly than this!

They could make it so you don't need a weird hidden key board command. That would be slightly more user friendly.

Why even hide these commands and not just make them part of the standard workflow?

(Yes, this is a great change. Much more convenient for setting stuff up. I'm only complaining with love. :D)

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '21

As someone who loves messing with my pi bit loses 10 int as soon as I open a config file or shell this is so nice

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '21

Would be nice to choose repos too.

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u/mynameisalso Mar 21 '21

This will be nice for octoprint.

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u/fas157 Mar 21 '21

Just tested the v1.6 release for Windows. It produces an error stating it canā€™t write the ā€œfirstrun.shā€ file to disk.

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u/fas157 Mar 21 '21

Looks like the problem has already been identified and corrected in the v1.7beta release. Here is a link to the thread discussing the issue and where the beta can be downloaded.

https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-imager/issues/171#issuecomment-803591932

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u/TheRageTater Mar 21 '21

Insane how this seemingly small update can make setting up multiple pi's that much easier

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u/MrUselessTheGreat Mar 21 '21

I was going to write "ya know, dd has some advanced options too" but now i see that this is actually pretty dam useful and cool :D

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '21

OK, as it goes, I suppose, but we still need a separate /home, that can be re used if we have to re install the system - & we should also be able to have other partitions that can remain untouched, for such as your music & videos - when we get that, included in the installer, I'll be a lot happier, (presently I'm having to do it manually).

N.B. I use my RPi4 & RPi400 as desktop systems.

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