Raspberry Pi 1 - Any Magic Mirror Setup Possible?

jmadero

Hi All,
Thanks for the replies! I’ve gotten ridiculous busy in real world stuff but the goal is to try this out in 3 weeks. I’ll post my results

mbalfour

@sagatxxx I’m not in a state where I can upload a full OS image, but if you explain more fully what steps you’ve tried and where you’re failing, I can try and provide a bit of guidance.

sagatxxx

@mbalfour thanks a lot

I will follow your guide and I will be showing the problems I find:
The first is that when I try to install the chromium browser:

sudo apt-get install chromium x11-xserver-utils unclutter
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package chromium is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
  chromium-inspector chromium-bsu

E: Package 'chromium' has no installation candidate

jmadero

@sagatxxx Chromium has been deprecated from the repository. This may be useful: http://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/41603/installing-chrome-on-raspbian

sagatxxx

@jmadero said in Raspberry Pi 1 - Any Magic Mirror Setup Possible?:

@sagatxxx Chromium has been deprecated from the repository. This may be useful: http://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/41603/installing-chrome-on-raspbian

hi

I followed this steps:

wget https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/87113035/chromium-browser-l10n_45.0.2454.85-0ubuntu0.15.04.1.1181_all.deb
wget https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/87113035/chromium-browser_45.0.2454.85-0ubuntu0.15.04.1.1181_armhf.deb
wget https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/87113035/chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra_45.0.2454.85-0ubuntu0.15.04.1.1181_armhf.deb
sudo dpkg -i chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra_45.0.2454.85-0ubuntu0.15.04.1.1181_armhf.deb
sudo dpkg -i chromium-browser-l10n_45.0.2454.85-0ubuntu0.15.04.1.1181_all.deb chromium-browser_45.0.2454.85-0ubuntu0.15.04.1.1181_armhf.deb

finally chromium browser seems to install correctly but when open it does not work and is not displayed

mbalfour

Hm, the post that @jmadero links to is from Jan, but I installed Chromium just a few weeks ago successfully. Did you run this first before trying to install chromium?

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -y

This step is necessary for making sure you’ve got the latest repository lists, I think.

Also, when you open the chromium browser that you did install, what exactly happens? Does the browser itself not work, or are you not seeing the MagicMirror page? Once again, please be specific!

sagatxxx

the pi is fully updated

does not come out anything on the screen, it seems that it is running but nothing shows up, I put a video sample:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nFnMD_JoCI

ronny3050

Chromium isn’t necessary. I use Midori and execute “midori -e Fullscreen -a http://localhost:3000”