For newbies in this field, let me explain you that Windows 10 IoT is not like a normal windows distribution. It has a graphical user interface and then you can also pull up using the HDMI connection. It will not act as a normal version of windows and therefore will not be able to install a word processor and games in your computer.

To be very precise it will not let you use the Raspberry Pi as a mini personal computer. In recent announcement of Microsoft, it is offering Windows 10 IoT Core for free to Makers as well as the commercial device builders as the new edition of Windows are for small-footprint and also low-cost devices. Taking the advantage, you can easily install Windows 10 IoT Core on your Raspberry Pi 2 and make an extraordinary impact on your projects.

All you have to follow the instructions given below to put the Windows 10 image on your card. This must be done on a PC where the Windows are installed on it physically. As you double click on the ISO, it will automatically mount itself as a virtual drive and you can access the contents.

After the installation is completed, it will be located at local disk C. Further, select the SD card where you want to flash and then provide the location of the installation and flash the image.

As you switch on the power supply, the Windows 10 IoT image in your Raspberry Pi will automatically boot.

You will have blue windows logos followed by a black screen for about 2 minutes. This is normal while booting any windows version. Now, as the Pi will reboot to a blue-screened window, you have to wait for a long time. Follow the PowerShell documentation to use PowerShell to connect to your running device. Make sure you update the default password for the Administrator account. This can be done by following commands in your PowerShell connection: Replace [new password] with a strong password:.

After this is completed, you will have to re-establish the current session using enable-psSession with the new credentials. Questions related to this article? Tell Us What You Think!! Cancel reply You must be logged in to post a comment. Connect with Engineers Garage. Search Engineers Garage. For downloading a UUP file you can use any one of the following websites.

Each of them works a bit differently. On these websites, you only have to choose a Windows version, build number, language, and edition like Pro, Home, Ultimate, etc. Download the file from this website only if your computer is not running on Windows OS. While on the website, I recommend selecting only one edition to keep the file size smaller and make the installation faster.

Only check the required edition and leave others unchecked. Now choose the Download and convert to ISO option. This site has got a much more intuitive interface where you can easily download the file. The process of creating SD card is very simple. First, you will have to insert SD card to your card reader and then, you can choose what version of OS you would like to install. In this step, you will also choose device name, and you have to set device password.

Here, it is good to notice that when you try to login to your device, username is administrator also now it is possible to set up WiFi connection directly to your SD card so when you boot your device for the first time, it will connect automatically. After you set up everything, the program will start downloading selected Windows version. Currently in 4. When this is ready, another command line window will appear and system will be written to your SD card.

This entire process took about 10 – 15 minutes, depends on size of SD card you use. As you can see, it took about 4 minutes to boot the first time. When you set up WiFi Connection, it connects automatically and you do not have to set it up on Raspberry. Normal boot up took about 2 minutes, and there is no user interaction needed.

Sometimes, it can happen that system is unable to read your SD card. Then, you can get this screen. Just try few more times, and if it is not helping try to flash your SD card again.

If even this will not work, try another SD card, maybe the SD card is broken. User experience in most of the app is rather bad, even the default app which is pre-installed on image is sometimes laggy on Raspberry Pi 3, on Raspberry Pi 2 it is even worse. But there are still some bright sides, so let’s have a look at it.

What was an unpleasant surprise to me was that even after 3 years, Microsoft did not add Graphic Chip support. Raspberry board has that chip on board, and all linux distributions are fully capable of playing video. But on Windows 10 IoT, you are not able to play any video, or display some more complex graphic content because all rendering goes only through CPU and it just cannot handle it. Another thing to mention about video is that you will get no sound over HDMI. At least in default setting, maybe it is possible to set it somehow to send sound over HDMI, but in default setting, you get sound only from 3.

So if you are thinking about Windows IoT and Raspberry Pi to be a great solution to some digital signage project, think again, without GPU support, you can display only slideshows, or some very simple web pages.

This will be very limiting to you in time. It is good to know limitations of platform before you invest into building something on it.

I personally did one project where we created digital signage solution running on Windows IoT on Raspberry Pi. But in the end, it was a huge failure because of missing GPU support and limitations depending on this. We ended up displaying every single web page, and even that was not reliable enough, because after some time 6 – 7 months , our Raspberries started to break down because of high CPU usage and overheating.

Some did not start at all, and some others did display green lines over screens or similar artifacts. Another new thing in Windows Iot Core is remote desktop client. It is a very nice feature, and you can work with your device even if you do not have a display attached, but on Raspberry Pi, it will not work.

It is a known bug since and still, it is not fixed.

 
 

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This should be done on a PC with Windows installed on it physically. For Raspberry Pi, however, we strongly recommend flashing the complete OS image, see above. This will be very limiting to you in time. This is very nice and you can quickly see some real projects running pl your Raspberry Enter;rise. Click here to download the UUP file. We tried Visual Studio Code and it flat out refused to install. Now, as the Pi will reboot to a blue-screened window, you have to wait for a long time.

 

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