Connecting to a Mothbox remotely
Editing a Mothbox with another Raspberry Pi
Here’s how to load a completely fresh version of raspberry pi OS onto a device
Flashing the SD card
Open Raspberry Pi Imager
Choose: Raspberry Pi OS 32 Bit choose your SD card
Then press the little settings icon and make the following settings
hostname: mothboxstation username: pi password: gimmemoths (or whatever you want)
make sure to click “Enable SSH”
under CONFIGURE WIRELESS LAN for SSID put the exact name of your wifi and enter the password next hit save
next hit WRITE
and the image will start loading onto your pi
logging into your pi via wifi
load the SD card into your pi wait about a minute for it to boot up
now go to a windows computer and hit the windows button
type CMD hit enter
you will see a command prompt
type: ssh pi@mothbox.local
after just a second or two, it should find your pi it will ask you if you want to continue, type “yes” and hit enter
and then it will ask for the password
enter the password, hit enter
Raspi Config
now type
sudo raspi-config
hit enter you will see the raspi-config menu come up
go to interface options go to “VNC” enable VNC
go to FINISH
VNC “Headless” connection
Starting with raspberry pi operating systems since oct 2023, you have to use something like https://tigervnc.org/ Download https://tigervnc.org/
open the program enter mothboxstation.local
and hit connect to continue hit yes type your username and password e.g. pi gimmemoths
your headless basestation for programming pis is now set!