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Pi Setup using a Display and Keyboard

Desktop Pi Setup

To have a direct communication, connect the Raspberry to a monitor and control it with a keyboard. This is the simplest option.

Warning

Once it's done booting the OS, Raspberry Pi 3B might have a problem of screen distortion. To solve this, we used the instructions of this link. In brief, you’re supposed to add the following line in the file “usercfg.txt”: dtoverlay=vc4-fkms-v3d in the file “usercfg.txt”

Using the keyboard and display, send the following command and it will display the Pi's IP address:

ip a

If you face problems connecting to the Pi through SSH in the next step, you can try running the following commands back on the Pi:

sudo ssh-keygen -A
sudo systemctl restart ssh