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Raspberry-pi powered magic mirror w/ motion sensor
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=1to 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
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
Screenshot
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