ac2799 / magicmirrorpi0installer

Installer for Magic Mirror on a Pi Zero

MagicMirror 2.6.0 Installer for the Pi Zero

This installer allows users of the Raspberry Pi Zero to also access the popular MagicMirror personal assistant project which was voted number 1 Pi project by MagPi in 2016.

Installation

Raspberry Pi

Install the most recent available Raspbian Image (This is tested on Raspbian Jessie and Raspbian Stretch). You do not need the 'recommended software', but you do need the 'desktop'. Therefore do not use the 'Lite' version.

Set up your Internet connection. You may also want to set up SSH and VNC at this time.

Magic Mirror Installation

Clone this project into your home directory (It should come down into the folder ~/MagicMirrorPi0Installer)

git clone https://github.com/ac2799/MagicMirrorPi0Installer

Run the command

sudo chmod a+x ~/MagicMirrorPi0Installer/RaspberryPi0.sh && sh ~/MagicMirrorPi0Installer/RaspberryPi0.sh

This will make the shell script executable, and if that is successful, it will also run the script.

This can take up to an hour, depending on how many updates and upgrades need to be made to your Raspbian version. There is minimal interaction required, except to press enter a couple of times to agree to updates outside of the repository (e.g. updates to the raspbian operating system).

Further details

The main repository for the Magic Mirror is at https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror. All the work was done by them, this is just to hold the Pi Zero script until such time as it can be brought into the main project.

- Andrew Chu

magicmirrorpi0installer's Issues

Wrong filename in script

After new instalation pm2 didn't start properly. after few hours i found why.
In pm2_MagicMirrorPi0.json
line:
"script" : "/MagicMirror/PiZero/startMagicMirror.sh",
should be :
"script" : "/MagicMirror/PiZero/startMagicMirrorPi0.sh",

Many thanks Stretch lite?

With the zero trying to keep things as slim as possible.

sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-all xserver-xorg-input-all xserver-xorg-core xinit x11-xserver-utils

edit the ~/.bash_profile

if [[ -z $DISPLAY ]] && [[ $(tty) = /dev/tty1 ]]; then
startx
fi

With Raspbian, launch raspi-config utility, then choose Boot Options and Console Autologin
which doesn't seem to work so.

sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/[email protected]/autologin.conf

edit with

[Service]
ExecStart=
ExecStart=-/sbin/agetty --autologin pi --noclear %I 38400 linux

sudo systemctl enable [email protected]

sudo apt-get install chromium-browser
sudo apt-get install unclutter

create a file~/.xinitrc

#!/bin/sh
xset -dpms
xset s off
xset s noblank

unclutter &
chromium-browser http://localhost:8080 --window-size=1920,1080 --start-fullscreen --kiosk --incognito --noerrdialogs --disable-translate --no-first-run --fast --fast-start --disable-infobars --disable-features=TranslateUI --disk-cache-dir=/dev/null

But many thanks

Wasn't to sure about Plymouth theme with stretch lite but mweh :)
But sure someone could add

Black screen !

Hello ! Thanks to you for you work for the pi zero, but I have a problem ... When MagicMirror is launching, my page stay totally black. I try the defaut config json file and other, but impossible to have something on the screen.
I work on a Pi Zero W, all update are done. No problem during the installation, i just make a modification on the script to launch the correct file (see previous issue)
Do you have an idea ?