Start the mirror on startup

[kurtdb]

We get more and more questions from people who want to run the mirror on startup. There have been a few people that have already done this, so it might be a good idea to document this in the readme.

Maybe someone can pick this up?

[Shubham0209]

@kurtdb i had saved the following comments from chat..

If anyone wants the mirror to autostart you can create the following script in the root of your users home :
/home/pi/smart-start.sh

!/bin/bash

export DISPLAY=:0

export XAUTHORITY=/home/pi/.Xauthority

cd /home/pi/smart-mirror && npm start

Afterwards, add this line to the bottom of ~/.config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart

/home/pi/smart-start.sh &

This is better than using .bashrc because it is only executed when the lxSession starts - bashrc gets executed every time a bash session runs.

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yeah i have mine on autoboot
theres a number of ways like
cd ~

cd smart-mirror

nano start.sh

export DISPLAY=:0

export XAUTHORITY=/home/pi/.Xauthority

cd /home/pi/smart-mirror && npm start

chmod a+rwx start.sh

and then put "/home/pi/smart-mirror/start.sh &" in the bash.rc file

[Shubham0209]

moreover this might help
https://github.com/evancohen/smart-mirror/pull/79/files#diff-04c6e90faac2675aa89e2176d2eec7d8R84

[kurtdb]

Thanks a ton for the comment. You're a lifesaver. :)

[Shubham0209]

Pleasure absloutely mine.. 😄

[capfirepants]

HOW TO START THE SMART-MIRROR ON BOOT.
In /home/pi/, create the file called smart-start.sh with the following content:

#!/bin/bash
export DISPLAY=:0
export XAUTHORITY=/home/pi/.Xauthority
cd /home/pi/smart-mirror && npm start

Make the file owned by the user pi
chown pi:pi /home/pi/smart-start.sh
And make it executable
chmod +x /home/pi/smart-start.sh
Then, edit the file /home/pi/.config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart
and add the following line to the end:
/home/pi/smart-start.sh &
Reboot the Pi and you should be good to go

[gothmate]

Thanks a lot for the comments. I was lookin' up for it.

[SimonSaid00]

Hello there! First of all I would like to say Evan that you did a great job with this project.
Second for all- I am trying to follow Evan's start up program but it doesn't work. Does this have something to do with how my Pi is booting up ? Currently it is set to login automatically as user "Pi" and that's about it. How is yours setup in order for these to work? Thanks a lot!

[evancohen]

@SimonSaid00 Thanks :)
Have you tried what @capfirepants has suggested above? That has worked for everyone so far.

If you have trouble jump into the gitter chat.

[SimonSaid00]

Hi Evan! I did not since I wasn't sure WHERE to put the "chown pi:pi /home/pi/smart-start.sh". I am not a coder :)

Thanks for the reply!

[SimonSaid00]

It has been done, thank you, it works :)