#Best magic mirror software code#
#Best magic mirror software free#

You want to do this because otherwise the screen will time out. MagPi’s instructions are actually for an installer script, but the linked script on the installation page is actually that of a different user.

#Best magic mirror software code#

In MagPi they give the code for an automatic installer, but when I went to the Magic Mirror installation page they state that as of the start of 2020 they’d removed the automatic installer.

(Incidentally if you change 1 to 2 you get a 180 degree rotation, and if you change it to 3 you get a 270 degree rotation). Then add this line to rotate it 90 degrees: display_rotate=1 To this, from a command line: sudo nano /boot/config.txt I wanted my magic mirror to be portrait (or vertical) in orientation. Here are a few things that came up for me while I was building my mirror. Note that the Pi does still boot to desktop before the MagicMirror app takes over – just wait a few seconds. I followed the instructions and I was up and running with no problems. Obviously MagPi magazine gives you most of the information you need. The official power supply is white and has a mostly white cable, so I’ll use that since my mirror will be wall mounted. You obviously also need a micro-USB power supply and an SD card. This is an opensource modular system with various extra functionality developed by a global community. The whole thing uses MagicMirror 2 to produce a good looking display. I previously used one to make a lightbox). (Ribba frames are great for projects because of their depth. You don’t get that with the PDF!Īnyway, the design in MagPi uses a Pi (they used a 4 but I used a 3 B+), the official touchscreen (the most expensive part of this build), a £3.50 IKEA Ribba frame, and a £7.00 A5 sheet of two-way mirror. There’s a laser printed cover mounted Raspberry Pi mount (not for this project). Issue 90 which features this project is here. I like to buy the print versions anyway – but find it useful to go back to PDFs later if needed.

#Best magic mirror software free#

MagPi magazine, incidentally, uploads free PDFs of their publications which is rather generous of them.

The latest issue of the always great MagPi magazine featured a magic mirror on the cover, and when I looked at what was needed to replicate their model, I realised that I had most of the parts already, or could get them inexpensively. Commonly people re-purpose old monitors to provide the screen. If the screen is mostly black, with white writing, then the bright parts come through, and you get a mirror for the most part. The basis of them is a two-way mirror in front of a screen. The idea is that they provide useful information in a non-intrusive screen – you probably have mirrors hanging on your wall after all. Smart mirrors or magic mirrors are pieces of mirror-glass with a screen behind them that can display data. Some elements of this may change over time!

And yes, I’ve intentionally blurred a portion of the screen here.Īlso note that as is the way of these things, everything here was true in January 2020 using a Raspberry Pi 3B+ with Raspbian Buster. Note: Taking good photos of mirrors is very hard! This photo suggests lots of double images, but in fact they’re not visible to the human eye, and the text is nice and sharp! Nor can you see acrylic marks in the screen.