I recently got the latest iPad Pro with the M1 chip and have really enjoyed the screen and using it as a second monitor, but I really wanted to be able to write code on it in VS Code like my MacBook Pro. There are several articles on the web about how to do this, but I just wanted to document what worked for me at this date.
Install Raspberry OS to micro SD Card
Followed this page to install the raspberry pi os to the cd card: https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/projects/raspberry-pi-setting-up/2
Headless Setup of Raspberry OS
Then configured it headless by putting a blank ssh file at the root of the sd card (/Volumes/boot)
Also configured wifi by creating a wpa_supplicant.conf file, second link is what I used
country=US
ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=netdev
update_config=1
network={
scan_ssid=1
ssid="your_wifi_ssid"
psk="your_wifi_password"
}
Docs:
- https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/computers/configuration.html#setting-up-a-headless-raspberry-pi
- https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/raspberry-pi-headless-setup-how-to,6028.html
Connect to Raspberry PI
After that I can ssh like so with the default password of raspberry ssh pi@raspberry.local the .local is required
Highly recommend changing the password with passwd after logging in
Update Raspberry PI
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade this updated the kernel or something so when installing docker and trying to run it I got an error.
A reboot fixed the issue so I highly suggest rebooting after this step, it boots up surprisingly quickly.
Install Docker
This is the point where most tutorials have you install code-server on raspberry pi, but I prefer not installing software and instead running containers for software.
Run code-server container
I originally started creating a Dockerfile for code-server which came with its own problems. Anything
over alpine 3.12 as a base image doesn’t have working DNS on raspberry pi os because
https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/issues/12091 But after that it failed to install because it needs node and so I switched
to the node base image and then it failed because the latest was too new and it wanted version 14 so I switched to version 14 base image
of node and it succeeded but didn’t end. It was then that I discovered there is already a docker hub image for code-server so I switched
to that and I was up and running. https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/code-server
docker run -d --name=code-server -p 8443:8443 ghcr.io/linuxserver/code-server
Connect to code-server
In a browser on any machine on the network (iPad, macbook pro, etc) go to http://raspberrypi.local:8443 and you should see VS Code.
Setup git, etc in code-server container
In VS Code start a terminal. Then you can configure git, put your ssh key in, clone repos, etc
ssh key goes in /config/.ssh
I setup the git config like mentioned on the docker hub page
git config --global user.name "username"
git config --global user.email "email address"
Next Steps
That so far is where I am at and it gets it going. I’d really like to have flake8 and pylint working.
The container should also be set to restart if it stops. Possibly also create Dockerfile with this code-server
as the base and do the config in it but keep it local since it will have my key, etc.