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

Hawking

@noorm91
I simply did

sudo apt-get install chromium-browser

and the start is by

chromium-browser --incognito --kiosk http://localhost:8080

I don’t know if this is a new possibility in Stretch light or is also possible in Jessie Lite (I know that there were some issues in the past). However, as I said, the performance is slow and not stable (I see that the free amount of memory gets low and the system freezes every few hours). Therefore I would prefer to use still Midori, whoch worked fine for me in Jessie. However, using Midori with Stretch I simply get a black screen. I don’t know if this is due to an error in my installation, due to changes from Jessie to Stretch, due to changes in the Midori browser, due to changes in MM (I tried to install an older version, which didn’t help) or yet another reason.

Parth Bhandari

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Parth Bhandari

@Kobie said in How I got my Magic Mirror working on a Raspberry Pi 0 (zero):

sudo npm install

Thanks. I was stuck on the 6th step.

Andrius ok

@Parth-Bhandari check this thread https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/32731

lasharor

Couldn’t get this to work at all on the new distro:

(chromium-browser:1470): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

I’ll check if the image works for me.

@Andrius-ok would be nice if you could create and upload an image.

PipoloyJo

Hi everyone, I did not read all 16 pages of this thread but I successfully setup my MM on a Raspberry Pie Zero W, following this answer https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/1183/how-i-got-my-magic-mirror-working-on-a-raspberry-pi-0-zero/8

I decided to compile all instructions in a basic bash script since some of these steps can be quite long to execute: https://github.com/PipoloyJo/MMConfig/blob/master/setup-mirror.sh

Maybe someone else has already done the same, but I did not found it.

Only difference so far is the use of chromium over midori (I got some issues setting it up).

Thanks for this thread!

Andrius ok

@lasharor did you using Raspberry Pi Zero W ?

lasharor

@Andrius-ok Yes.

Tried the Image also. works fine after upgrading. Was not succesfull upgrading magicmirror however. Trying PipoloyJo solution now.

Andrius ok

@lasharor ok tomorrow I will share the image

lasharor

@PipoloyJo So I also tried this. Can you please specify which distro you are using? As this is not working on Jessie.
Also the script should contain apt-get upgrade in the beginning. Otherwise you’ll not be able to download most packages due to incorrect links.

Trying now on stretch.

Edit: having problems with rpi-update (or upgrade), will not download the full image can’t run chrome in sandboxed mode. So tried to run MM by disabling sandboxed mode. End up with working Chrome but blank black screen.

:(