How I got my Magic Mirror working on a Raspberry Pi 0 (zero)

[greenwaydev]

Great tutorial but when I booted up my pi I got this:

-bash: xset: command not found
-bash: xset: command not found
-bash: xset: command not found
-bash: midori: command not found
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ matchbox: can’t open display! check your DISPLAY variable.

I do not know what to do to fix this.

[Mikgabo]

@greenwaydev

Hey!
Try this link to a disc image from Andrius:

So there is my MM image with Chromium for Raspberry Pi Zero W
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/kdo5q1pxjluca49/AACvP81YjZik6R90BHZNiSZ5a?dl=0

Works amazing for me, and I’m sure for you too!

Cheers

[greenwaydev]

@Mikgabo Should I flash this to the SD card on my pi?

[Mikgabo]

@greenwaydev
I did, worked great for me.

[greenwaydev]

Awesome! Last question. Do I have to remove the other things I have put on the SD card in my pi? Like everything other than raspbian and jessie? Im kind of new to this stuff

[Mikgabo]

@greenwaydev
So what I did was format the sd card and use win32 disc imager to flash the sd card, put it my my Pi Zero and it worked.
After install I got rid of some stuff via the config file as I didn’t want all that stuff on my MM.
Cheers!

[greenwaydev]

Changed the display_rotate setting back to 0 but the display is still turned. Any suggestions?

[Mikgabo]

@greenwaydev
Did you reboot?

[greenwaydev]

@Mikgabo I unplugged the pi, removed the SD, and changed the rotate setting. Then, I put it back in and plugged the pi back in.

[Mikgabo]

@greenwaydev I’m thinking you aren’t making the adjustment in the right location (possibly).

Try this from terminal:

sudo nano /boot/config.txt

and add the following to the file. Where you add it doesn’t really matter:

# Rotate display virtically
display_rotate=0