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BLE Wi-Fi Onboarding

Set up Raspberry Pi Wi-Fi from your phone

Use Bluetooth to configure a headless Raspberry Pi onto Wi-Fi in seconds — no monitor, keyboard, or cable — then reach it securely from anywhere.

BLE WI-FI ONBOARDING
Overview

What it does

Getting a headless Pi (especially a Pi Zero) onto Wi-Fi usually means a monitor, a keyboard, and editing config files. BLE onboarding replaces all of that with a few taps on your phone.

The Remote.It app talks to the Pi over Bluetooth Low Energy to hand it Wi-Fi credentials, join it to the network, and register it for secure remote access — all before it ever touches the internet.

How it works

Install a BLE-onboarding-ready Remote.It image on the Pi and open the Remote.It mobile app. The app discovers the Pi over Bluetooth, sends it your Wi-Fi credentials, and registers it for remote access — so a device with no screen joins the network and becomes reachable in a single flow.

Capabilities

Provisioning without the peripherals

Onboard over Bluetooth

Hand a headless Pi its Wi-Fi from the Remote.It mobile app.

No peripherals

No monitor, keyboard, or SD-card surgery required.

Reach it anywhere

Access the Pi and its network the moment it comes online.

Ready-made images

Start from pre-built Raspberry Pi images.

Open source

The BLE onboarding project is open to build on.

Partner-ready

Integrate onboarding into your own product.

Use cases

Where teams put it to work.

Field-provisioning Raspberry Pi fleets
Headless Pi Zero deployments
Products that ship with a Pi inside

Ready to reach every machine?

Give your team secure access to the equipment that runs your business — in minutes. Free to start, no credit card, no open ports.

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