Magic Mirror¶

Magic Mirror Build Pictures¶

23" Samsung screen power resoldering:

Wooden frame initial fitting test on a glass with duel mirror film applied:

Testing the screen installation (frame removed) with power cords:

Testing black&white picture from a laptop after frame assembly:

Power, Lan, Usb external ports cutouts:

Fitted extended ports with wood filler:

Extended ports:

Assembly With screen, Raspberry Pi, cable routing, black material which do not pass light where there is no screen:

Adding some color for the frame:

Testing everything is working as it should be:

Full assembly behind the mirror:

Final Product:

Configuration Setup¶

Change Display Rotation¶

sudo nano /boot/config.txt

Add one of those according to your setup to the config file:

NOTE: You can rotate both the image and touch interface 180º by entering lcd_rotate=2 instead

Disabling the Screensaver¶

Change to OPEN GL Driver

sudo nano /boot/config.txt

add this:

dtoverlay=vc4-fkms-v3d

(Please note, you will need the x11-xserver-utils package installed.)

edit ~/.config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart:

sudo nano ~/.config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart

Add the following lines:

@xset s noblank
@xset s off
@xset -dpms

Edit /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf:

sudo nano /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

Add the following line below [SeatDefaults]

xserver-command=X -s 0 -dpms

OS UI Finishes¶

Make the Background Black:

Right click the Desktop -> Desktop Preferences and Change: Layout -> no image Colour -> #000000

Hit ok.

Right click on the top panel -> Panel Preferences -> Appearance

Select Solid Color (With Opacity) make sure Opacity at 0

Disable WiFi Power Save¶

Edit /etc/modprobe.d/8192cu.conf

sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/8192cu.conf

Add the following lines

# Disable power saving
options 8192cu rtw_power_mgnt=0 rtw_enusbss=1 rtw_ips_mode=1

For Raspberry Pi 3 Edit /etc/network/interfaces

sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces

Add the following line under the wlan0 section

allow-hotplug wlan0
iface wlan0 inet manual
wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
wireless-power off

Reboot your PI

sudo reboot

Disable Cursor on Startup¶

sudo apt-get install unclutter

Installation¶

first install node.js and npm

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_10.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

and then run:

sudo npm install -g npm@latest

If you need to remove node and npm run this:

sudo apt-get remove nodejs nodejs-legacy nodered

Installation:

magicmirror-installation

say no to PM2 auto start - will be install manually

To Start from SSH:

cd ~/MagicMirror && DISPLAY=:0 npm start

pm2 auto start installation¶

sudo npm install -g pm2
cd ~
nano mm.sh

add this to mm.sh and save:

#!/bin/sh

cd ~/MagicMirror
DISPLAY=:0 npm start

chmod +x mm.sh
pm2 start mm.sh
pm2 save
pm2 startup

pm2 commands:

pm2 restart mm
pm2 stop mm
pm2 start mm
pm2 log
pm2 show mm

Logrotate Installation¶

This will Retain for 14 days compress the logs.

pm2 install pm2-logrotate
pm2 set pm2-logrotate:compress true
pm2 set pm2-logrotate:retain 14
pm2 set pm2-logrotate:max_size 10M

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