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Magic Mirror

by khinds10

Wall Based Magic Mirror for Current Weather & Time Display

Step 1: Flashing RaspberriPi Hard Disk / Install Required Software (Using Ubuntu Linux)

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Download "RASPBIAN JESSIE LITE" Insert the microSD to your computer via USB adapter
https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/ and create the disk image using the dd command

Create your new hard disk for DashboardPI Locate your inserted microSD card via the df -h

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command, unmount it and create the disk image with
the disk copy dd command
$ df -h /dev/sdb1 7.4G 32K 7.4G 1%
/media/XXX/1234-5678
$ umount /dev/sdb1
Caution: be sure the command is completely
accurate, you can damage other disks with this
command
if=location of RASPBIAN JESSIE LITE image file
of=location of your microSD card
$ sudo dd bs=4M if=/path/to/raspbian-jessie-lite.img
of=/dev/sdb (note: in this case, it's /dev/sdb,
/dev/sdb1 was an existing factory partition on the
microSD) Setting up your RaspberriPi
Insert your new microSD card to the raspberrypi and
power it on with a monitor connected to the HDMI
port
Login
user: pi pass: raspberry
Change your account password for security
sudo passwd pi
Enable RaspberriPi Advanced Options
sudo raspi-config
Choose: 1 Expand File System
9 Advanced Options
A2 Hostname change it to "MagicMirror"
A4 SSH Enable SSH Server
A7 I2C Enable i2c interface Enable the English/US
Keyboard
sudo nano /etc/default/keyboard Change the following
line: XKBLAYOUT="us" Reboot PI for Keyboard
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layout changes / file system resizing to take effect
$ sudo shutdown -r now Auto-Connect to your WiFi
sudo nano /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
Add the following lines to have your raspberrypi
automatically connect to your home WiFi (if your
wireless network is named "linksys" for example, in
the following example)
network={ ssid="linksys" psk="WIRELESS
PASSWORD HERE" }
Reboot PI to connect to WiFi network
$ sudo shutdown -r now
Now that your PI is finally on the local network, you
can login remotely to it via SSH. But first you need to
get the IP address it currently has.
$ ifconfig Look for "inet addr: 192.168.XXX.XXX" in
the following command's output for your PI's IP
Address Go to another machine and login to your
raspberrypi via ssh
$ ssh pi@192.168.XXX.XXX Start Installing required
packages
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get upgrade
$ sudo apt-get install vim git python-smbus i2c-tools
python-imaging python-smbus build-essential python-
dev rpi.gpio python3 python3-pip libi2c-dev python-
requests Update local timezone settings
$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata select your timezone
using the interface Setup the simple directory l
command [optional]
$ vi ~/.bashrc
add the following line:
$ alias l='ls -lh'
$ source ~/.bashrc
Fix VIM default syntax highlighting [optional] $ vi simpletest.py

$ sudo vi /etc/vim/vimrc Change the following line:

uncomment the following line: sensor = Adafruit_DHT.DHT11 Comment the line out

syntax on DHT11 Install pin = 'P8_11' Uncomment the line and change the pin
number to 16
$ cd ~
pin = 16 Run the test
$ git clone
https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_Python_DHT.g... python simpletest.py

$ cd Adafruit_Python_DHT/ You should see a metric reading of Temp and

Humidity displayed on the command line.
$ sudo python setup.py install

$ sudo python ez_setup.py

$ cd examples/

Step 2: Supplies Needed: 12" X 24" Acrylic See-Through Mirror, 3mm

Step 3: Supplies Needed: Balsa Wood Strips 0.125 X 0.5 Inches

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Step 4: Supplies Needed: 12x24 Inch Black Picture Frame

Step 5: Supplies Needed: OLD Android Tablets (x2)

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Step 6: Supplies Needed: DHT11 Humidistat

Step 7: Supplies Needed: RaspberriPi Zero (or Regular RaspberriPi Should Work)

Step 8: Build and Wire the Device

DHT11 Humidistat

VCC -> 5V

GND -> GND

DATA -> GPIO 16 / PIN 36

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Step 9: 3D Print Brackets

In the /construction folder of the project 3D print the following attachments to build the picture frame borders and
tablet holders.

Print the Following Tablet Holders:

tablet-mounts.stl

Print the Following Frame Corner blocks and balsa wood attachments:

mirror-corner-blocks.stl

mirror-corners.stl

mirror-sides.stl

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Step 10: Assembly

Gather together the frame balsa wood strips and the 3D printed attachments

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Step 11: Assembly (cont.)

Assemble the balsawood strips inside the corner brackets (sliding the balsawood through the side brackets, make
sure they're square against the corners of the picture frame. Paint everything black with spray paint.

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Step 12: Assembly (cont.)

Screw the corners to the 4 corner blocks to hold the frame together.

Step 13: Assembly (cont.)

Attach the tablets and Raspberry PiZero to the wood to eventually fix to the wall.

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Step 14: Assembly (cont.)

Attach to the wall the board. (Note the 2 screws on the top left and right, they will be used to hold up the picture
frame with frame border attached to place in front of the tablets to shine through the mirror)

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Step 15: Finish Assembly

Finally replace the cardboard piece inside the picture frame with a two way mirror and on each corner of the
picture frame screw into the corner (3D printed) blocks to hold the picture frame to the frame border.

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Step 16: Software Required
Create the Device Hub Project hosted on a PHP
enabled webhost of your choice for the top tablet
to get data
https://github.com/khinds10/DeviceHub
Create Weather Tablet Project for the bottom
tablet
https://github.com/khinds10/WeatherTablet
Setup Startup Scripts, Temp Logger to API script
each 3 minutes
In the raspberrypi folder of the project copy the
settings.shadown.py file to settings.py with the host
file of the DeviceHub project above you have setup.
$ crontab -e Add the following lines:
*/3 * * * * python
/home/pi//MagicMirror/raspberrypi/temp-check.py
Verify the display starts working on reboot
$ sudo reboot
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Create the tablet clock website
Create a PHP enabled website online with the
contents of the "tablet" folder in this project.
Configure the website: In the "tablet/server" folder of
the project, copy the config.shadow.php file to a file
named "config.php" Edit the "config.php" configure
the $deviceHubAPI value to point to the device hub of
your choosing from the referenced project above
(https://github.com/khinds10/DeviceHub)
Example Apache2 Configuration File for the tablet
clock PHP website
DocumentRoot /var/www/tablet ServerName
myclocktablet.com ServerAdmin
webmaster@myclocktablet.com ErrorLog
${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error-clock-tablet.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access-clock-
tablet.log combined Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All Require all granted
FINISHED!