Raspberry Pi’scan be tricky to set up for a smart mirror, especially if you’re not very familiar with them or haven’t used them at all before. Fortunately, there exists a really simple way to get a smart mirror up and running, within minutes. This is possible by using MagicMirror...
called a Magic Mirror ().The idea is that we first mount a flat-screen liquid crystal display (LCD) flush with the wall of our house (cutting into the drywall is the part my wife is not going to be deliriously happy about, but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it [grin])...
Update 7/27/2019:electron won’t install on armv6, it even after specifying ^2.0.0 it tries to install 1.8.0 and it doesn’t find it in the electron repository. I think it was removed for security reasons. Magic mirror on pi zero is broken until further notice :/ please leave a co...
Customizing your Magic Mirror calendar Open up your config.js file and scroll down to the calendar module. Theheaderis an optional field that displays text above the module. ThefetchIntervalfield is how often the calendar should update in milliseconds. The value here is one day, but the defaul...
First, we have to install MagicMirror onto our Raspberry Pi. We don’t need to use a Zero for this, but since we’re going to run it as a server, there’s no need to connect it to a screen; therefore, we’re going to keep the hardware footprint as small as possible. You can...
1. Set up the GA Module on your Magic Mirror First, navigate to your Magic Mirror directory: cd MagicMirror then to your Magic Mirror modules directory: cd modules then, put the following command into your Raspberry Pi’s console:
While dual-monitor setups are a thing we take for granted when using Linux, it isn’t always a simple plug-and-play affair. You could be using a desktop environment that doesn’t want to work with your hardware or have a window manager that stubbornly decides to slap one of your displa...
1.First login into your server as a root or non-root user withsudo permissionsand run the following command to keep your system up-to-date. sudo yum update [On RedHat Systems] sudo dnf update [On Fedora] sudo apt update [On Debian Systems] ...
If you fancy playing some classic games on those late-'80s and early-'90s consoles like the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis, it's possible to get them running on your modern Mac thanks to emulation. Here's how to get started.
Steps to Setup Wireless Display The steps below are the set-up process you need to finish before starting to cast mobile to Windows 11. Step 1. Check Device Compatibility Right-click the Windows Start button, then open Device Manager > Network Adapters. If you see Intel ® Dual Band Wirel...