For my headless Pis, I attach a BT TTL serial port to the rx&#x2F;tx pins. They run about $15 or less. This lets me pair to the serial port from my laptop, watch it boot the kernel, login and do whatever cli commands I need. I can also use BlueTerm on my android phone to do the same thing (though make sure you get the hacker keyboard if you go this route).<p>Here&#x27;s pretty much the article I followed, though I bumped my console up to 115200.  <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.miguelgrinberg.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;a-cheap-bluetooth-serial-port-for-your-raspberry-pi" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.miguelgrinberg.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;a-cheap-bluetooth-serial...</a>