Magic mirror with motion sensor

Built using Raspberry Pi (running Raspbian Jessie), Python/Flask and a bit of shell

Note: There was a news ticker in there but it was a bit too choppy for my liking. The code is still in there though

My notes

First things first

sudo raspi-config and change keyboard, localization (timezone important for clock) and expand storage or whatever, then reboot (sudo reboot)

sudo pip install flask
sudo pip install RPi.GPIO
sudo apt-get install upgrade
sudo apt-get install update
sudo apt-get install unclutter

/boot/config.txt:

• uncomment disable_overscan=1 to make sure display fully occupies monitor
• rotate monitor 90 or 270 by adding in display_rotate=# where # is 1 or 3, respectively

Also this may help if you're having problems hdmi_force_hotplug=1 and hdmi_drive=2 Source

Getting Chromium

This guy knows what's up

Note: I didn’t expand my harddrive first and it bricked the OS on restart

On-boot stuff happens here

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

Note: /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart and /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart are old/not working from what I gathered

Add below other stuff:

@xset s off
@xset -dpms
@xset s noblank
@unclutter -idle 1
@sudo /usr/bin/python /home/pi/Documents/magic_mirror/motion.py
@sudo /usr/bin/python /home/pi/Documents/magic_mirror/app.py
@chromium-browser --incognito --kiosk http://localhost:8000/

Sources

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