How to Make a Magic Mirror with Raspberry Pi

Installing Magic Mirror

If you've followed along with the Raspberry Pi 4 Kit Hookup Guide, you should have a functioning Raspberry Pi desktop in front of you. Now we can move on to the "magic"!

Installing Magic Mirror

The basic installation is relatively straight forward. We'll run through the steps here, but you can also head over to the Magic Mirror Installation & Usage tutorial and follow their steps.

Install NodeSource

We first need to install NodeSource. Open a terminal window on your Raspberry Pi desktop. Then copy and paste the following code:

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curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_10.x | sudo -E bash -

If all goes well, you should see something like the following:

Install NodeJS

The next thing we need is NodeJS. Copy and paste the code below into your terminal window:

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sudo apt install -y nodejs

Installing NodeJS....

Clone the MagicMirror GitHub Repo

Now we get to the good part! Let's clone the MagicMirror GitHub repo to our Raspberry Pi. Copy and paste this code to your terminal and watch the GitHub clone magic happen....

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git clone https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror

Away we go!

Install Magic Mirror

We're close! Go ahead and cd (change dir) into the MagicMirror directory:

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cd MagicMirror

And then we type in the following:

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npm install

Copy the Sample Config File

So close! Let's copy the sample config file into one we can play around with:

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cp config/config.js.sample config/config.js

Run the Sample Config

Okay! Let's make this magic!

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npm start