User Friendly Magic Mirror?

[bhepler]

There is another possibility. You can purchase a cellular internet USB stick and connect it to the Pi. That way the mirror will always have connectivity and will be ready to go out of the box, so to speak.

At some point, they can get it hooked up to their own WiFi and you can retrieve the cellular connection. If you only charge the USB for a month or so, that will give them a hard deadline to get it connected to their network. Or you can ask them for their WiFi network & passphrase and configure it for them remotely.

Pro tip: If you have an android phone, the next time you’re at their place ask to get on their WiFi. You can extract the network & password and pre-program the mirror for them. You may be able to do this with an iPhone, but I don’t know the steps.

[majik655]

@Feedy88 said in User Friendly Magic Mirror?:

@majik655 sorry, I didn’t read the original post properly, actually you are right.

@tripalreno4 actually I think @majik655 is right:

• edit the wpa_supplicant.conf and add the gift receivers WiFi information
• configure the MM to automatically start upon boot with pm2

This would basically make it a “plug and play” apart from configuring modules ofc.

No worries Feedy88 …

I have made a couple of these for people. From my own experience it depends on how many or what kind of modules you will be putting on the mirror.
Specialty modules that need their account info you will have to get for them and configure.

The more specialized you make it the harder it will be to “keep updated” so if you are going to keep it simple such as a clock, weather module and things like default modules then just getting the wifi up and running without them is probably the easiest along with using PM2 for auto boot … if mirror crashes or needs to turn off …pm2 will restart the mirror for them.

As for updating… you can turn off the update module notification (or leave it on I guess) but if you are using just the default modules there really isnt a reason to update unless something breaks.

[BKeyport]

Alternatively, you could set up a script to update everything on a schedule and remove the update notifier. That would be a handy tool, wouldn’t it, @sdetweil 🤣🤣🤣

(yes, I’m pointing at Sam, as he’s the scripting minor deity)

[sdetweil]

@BKeyport yeh yeh. but as u point out. why update if not broken!

[Serge]

@tripalreno4 here is how to make the user-friendly web interface to connect you RPi to WiFi network.
https://lemariva.com/blog/2019/02/raspberry-pi-cups-printer-server-using-docker. Follow until CUPS installation.

After installation, your RPi will create its own wifi access point (AP) if no known wifi identified by RPi.
When AP created, User connects to it, goes to
http://192.168.27.1 and enter his wifi credentials using simple web interface (scan->select->enter password).
Worked for me.
I have made some visual adjustment and it looks like: