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Questions tagged [macos]

Questions about using macOS (formerly OSX) in conjunction with the Pi.

macOS is a proprietary OS developed by apple, which runs on apple Macs and Mac Books.

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Access to Raspberry Pi VNC session from Mac OS X

I'm trying to get remote screen access to my Raspberry Pi (running Raspbian) with a Mac OS X client. Here's what I've got: I ran 'raspbian-config' and used it to enable the VNC server. The desktop on the raspberry-pi shows that VNC server…
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Writing .img file to SD Card from a Mac

I want to burn a .img file of Wheezy OS to my 8GB SD Card from Mac OS X but can't figure out how. Any help would be appreciated.
user4039
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"Resource busy" error when using `dd` to copy disk img to SD card

I've downloaded Raspbian wheezy from the Raspberry Pi downloads page and following the RPi Easy SD Card Setup wiki page. I formatted the SD card, and cded into the folder containing the Raspbian img file, but when I run sudo dd…
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How to stream raspivid to Linux and OSX using GStreamer, VLC or Netcat?

How can I stream video stream to Linux or OS X using raspivid and either VLC, GStreamer or Netcat?
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How to successfully emulate RPI on OSX?

I followed this guide to emulate RPI on OSX via VirtualBox and it works. Now I'd like to simplify things a bit since this solution involves running debian in a virtual machine just to run qemu on top of. I googled for guides on how to setup qemu…
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Can I backup my SD card with Disk Utility on OSX?

I see a lot of backup instructions like this: How do I backup my Raspberry Pi? ...involving the command line in OSX. But can't I just use the OSX "Disk Utility" to create a "New Image" from the partition on my SD card? Is that not a recoverable…
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Connecting to a Raspberry Pi TightVNC server isn't working with Screenshare on Mac OS X?

I have a tightvnc server set up on my raspberry pi on port 1 but when I try to connect to it from my mac using the built in screen sharing client i get an error: Connection Failed to:192.168.1.127:1 Please make sure that Screen Sharing (in the…
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Installing sublime text on raspberry pi

This "Question" was asked by an unregistered user who hasn't been seen since. Don't waste your time and ours by answering. If you have enough reputation flag for closure. I know that this is too noob but I cant just figure it out.. I would like to…
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Raspberry Pi Emulation in OSX

Is there an emulator for Raspberry Pi that I could use to try to familiarise myself with the environment? And in my case something that will work on OSX.
Maria Zverina
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QEMU Raspbian on OS X

Sorry for bothering folks: I tried a lot of instructions to get a Raspbian image running on QEMU (2.0.0 via homebrew) on OS X (10.9.3). I downloaded several versions of Raspbian but always the first boot fails. qemu-system-arm -kernel ../kernel-qemu…
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Raspberry Pi Imager Failing to Verify Ubuntu Image Install to SD Card

I am trying to image Ubuntu onto an SD card on my Mac for use with my Raspberry Pi 4 using thew new official imager tool from Raspberry Pi (found here: https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/). For whatever reason, every time I try to image any…
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Can I run Mac OS X on the Raspberry Pi?

If I understand correctly, the Raspberry Pi does not run OS X. Is there a way to get OS X run on the Raspberry Pi? Do other boards like the Raspberry Pi exist that can run OS X?
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Appletalk access to root

For some bizarre reason people are "answering" this Question more than a year after it was asked - after no Answers at the time, despite significant OS changes, changes to netatalk and Apple abandoning afp. I would delete it, but this isn't…
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Using rsync to backup Pi

I decided to implement a rsync strategy similar to that suggested by @goldilocks https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/a/5492/8697 BACKGROUND I have a Pi, which is mainly used headless via ssh or VNC. I also run netatalk on the Pi so I can mount the…
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Failed RPi.GPIO installation on OS X

I am creating a server for the Raspberry Pi and I am partially writing the code using OS X. I need the RPi.GPIO module to make my script run, (even if I don't use it). After calling pip3 install RPi.GPIO I get following error: /usr/bin/clang…
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