MagicMirrorOS

An out of the box Raspberry Pi Raspbian distro that lets you run MagicMirror to make an interactive mirror.

Where to get it?

You can use the pi-imager commuity raspberrypi imager here, unofficial section.

Or download directly form the official mirror here

How to use it?

1. Unzip the image and install it to an SD card like any other Raspberry Pi image
2. Configure your WiFi by editing magicmirroros-wpa-supplicant.txt at the root of the flashed card when using it like a flash drive
3. Boot the Pi from the SD card
4. Hostname is magicmirroros (not raspberrypi as usual), username: pi and inital password is: raspberry
5. You can change the settings of the MagicMirror in the files located at ~/magicmirror/mounts/

Docker

Under the hood MagicMirrorOS uses this docker setup. At the first start the docker image is pulled which takes some time depending on your hardware, so please be patient ...

You find the docker setup at ~/magicmirror/ on your raspberrypi. For more information about this setup, how you can start/stop the docker container, how to see the logs , ..., please refer to the documentation provided there.

Requirements

• Raspberrypi all versions should work
• 2A power supply
• Pi 2, 3 & 4. The Raspberry Pi 0/1 is currently not supported.

Features

• Runs MagicMirror out-of-the-box

Developing

Requirements

1. Docker or Vagrant, docker recommended
2. Docker-compose - recommended if using docker build method, instructions assume you have it
3. Downloaded Raspbian Lite image.
4. Root privileges for chroot
5. Bash
6. sudo (the script itself calls it, running as root without sudo won't work)

Build MagicMirrorOS

MagicMirrorOS can be built using docker running either on an intel or RaspberryPi (supported ones listed). Build requires about 4.5 GB of free space available. You can build it assuming you already have docker and docker-compose installed issuing the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/guysoft/MagicMirrorOS.git
cd MagicMirrorOS/src/image
wget -c --trust-server-names 'https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspios_armhf_latest'
cd ..
sudo docker-compose up -d
sudo docker exec -it magicmirroros-build build

Building MagicMirrorOS Variants

MagicMirrorOS supports building variants, which are builds with changes from the main release build. An example and other variants are available in the folder src/variants/example.

To build a variant use:

sudo docker exec -it magicmirroros-build build [Variant]

Building Using Vagrant

There is a vagrant machine configuration to let build MagicMirrorOS in case your build environment behaves differently. Unless you do extra configuration, vagrant must run as root to have nfs folder sync working.

To use it:

sudo apt-get install vagrant nfs-kernel-server
sudo vagrant plugin install vagrant-nfs_guest
sudo modprobe nfs
cd MagicMirrorOS/src/vagrant
sudo vagrant up

After provisioning the machine, its also possible to run a nightly build which updates from devel using:

cd MagicMirrorOS/src/vagrant
run_vagrant_build.sh

To build a variant on the machine simply run:

cd MagicMirrorOS/src/vagrant
run_vagrant_build.sh [Variant]

Usage

1. If needed, override existing config settings by creating a new file src/config.local. You can override all settings found in src/config. If you need to override the path to the Raspbian image to use for building MagicMirrorOS, override the path to be used in ZIP_IMG. By default, the most recent file matching *-raspbian.zip found in src/image will be used.
2. Run src/build_dist as root.
3. The final image will be created in src/workspace

Customization

1. If you need to rotate the output change directory to /etc/lightdm and sudo nano lightdm.conf. Add the following into the [Seat:*] section of the file display-setup-script=xrandr --output HDMI-1 --rotate left where 'left' rotates 90 degrees counter clockwise, 'right' rotates 90 degrees clockwise, and 'inverted' rotates 180 degrees.
2. To set your local timezone:
   1. Find your timezone in the "TZ database name" column on Wikipedia
   2. nano ~/magicmirror/run/docker-compose.yml and add an entry under environment: for TZ: <your timezone>
   3. sudo timedatectl set-timezone <your timezone>

Code contribution would be appreciated!