This is my favorite way to connect to the Raspberry Pi Zero. Not only can you operate it with a single USB cable, but you can get it attached to the network and be able to communicate with other machines and the Internet.
The same as the last recipe, if you have the USB OTG functions installed and a regular-to-micro USB cable, you are ready to go.
Just like the last recipe, be careful with the edits to cmdline.txt
. You can make this change from the serial connection you made before, reboot, and go!
The unedited version of the file should look something like this:
pi@rpz14101:~$ sudo cat /boot/cmdline.txt dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 console=serial0,115200 console=tty1 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootfstype=ext4 elevator=deadline fsck.repair=yes rootwait
If you're coming from the previous recipe, it will look like this:
pi@rpz14101:~$ sudo cat /boot/cmdline.txt ...