Raspberry powered mirror which can display the news, weather, and time.
If you have git installed, clone the repository.
git clone [email protected]:netnutmike/Smart-Mirror.git
Alternatively, you can download a zip file containing the project (green button on the repository page)
Navigate to the folder for the repository
cd Smart-Mirror
make sure you have pip installed before doing this
sudo pip install -r requirements.txt
sudo apt-get install python-imaging-tk
vi smartmirror.py or nano smartmirror.py if you are more comfortable with nano.
replace weather_api_token with the token you got from forecast.io
To run the application run the following command in this folder
python smartmirror.py
To get your raspberry pi to automatically start the graphical user interface and automatically start the smart mirror application, there are 2 steps.
If your raspberry pi does not automatically start in the graphical user interface, you can change that by running:
sudo raspi-config
Choose Boot Options and select boot into Desktop GUI with automatic login.
Copy the file called smart-mirror.desktop to ~/.config/autostart. The autostart directory may not exist and might need to be created.
mkdir ~/.config/autostart
cp ~/Smart-Mirror/smart-mirror.desktop ~/.config/autostart
You should edit the smart-mirror.desktop file and make any changes neccessary for your system.
vi ~/.config/autostart/smart-mirror.desktop
If you followed the instructions exactly, no editing of this file should be needed.
If your monitor is turned on it's side to present a longer mirror you will need to tell the raspberry pi to display the monitor in portrait mode.
sudo vi /boot/config.txt
Go to the bottom of the file and add this line:
display_rotate=1
You will need to reboot for this change to take effect.
More than likely you are going to want to disable the screen saver that is on my default on the Raspberry Pi. It is not obvious how to do that in the GUI. Below are 3 lines you can copy and paste into /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostar
Open the file for editing:
sudo vi /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart
Copy and paste to the bottom after the last line.
@xset s noblank
@xset s off
@xset -dpms
You also need to turn off the screen blanking feature. There are 2 variable that need to be modified in /etc/kbd/config
sudo vi /etc/kbd/config
Search for:
BLANK_TIME
POWERDOWN_TIME
Change each of them to 0. They should look like this:
BLANK_TIME=0
POWERDOWN_TIME=0
This will not take affect until after the next reboot.