MagicMirror Raspberry Pi 0 W

[lifetech]

Hi all!

I am very eager to create my first magic mirror. I recently got my hands on a Pi 0, and I saw a bunch of tutorials claiming that it can be done on the Zero. I quickly got to work setting it up and downloading packages.

Twice I got stuck at the stage I am at now. When I try to boot MM from the terminal either nothing happens or I get a error. Or if I reboot into the mirror, I am able to see it booting but then it kicks me back to the desktop.

I am very unaware what my issue could be at this point. Electron, NPM, and Node are installed and latest. Any suggestions?

[sdetweil]

@lifetech just use the install script , see
https://github.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror_scripts

best to start from a clean flash, with full desktop PI OS… buster(latest)

[unfriendlydevice]

@lifetech I ran my original mirror on a Pi Zero using the image provided here: http://emmanuelcontreras.com/how-to/how-to-create-a-magic-mirror-2-with-pi-zero-w

[sdetweil]

@unfriendlydevice don’t care… use the latest stuff… many of the docs don’t get updated (that is 2017, 4 YEARS ago(

jessie and stretch are too old

use buster

use my script… there are settings that MUST be done, and u won’t have them
electron is not available for armv6l anymore

[unfriendlydevice]

@sdetweil The image uses Chromium and was last updated April 2020, not completely up to date but definitely not from 2017!

[sdetweil]

@unfriendlydevice ok… still doesn’t work tho… so…

[lifetech]

@sdetweil it was missing alot of dependencies and giving alot of errors when I tried before. Is it a good known install?

[sdetweil]

@lifetech my script is a good installer, and I will fix it if not. I support it on more platforms than MM supports

[lifetech]

@sdetweil THANKS MAN! I think I’m finally able to play around with this thing