Installing on a Pi Zero

Ramez

great :raising_hands: i think your zero repository should be mentioned in the main MM readme

andyc7687

@ramez Thanks Ramez, I was hoping someone might say that; don’t know who is the contributors to the main repository. Happy for a link to be passed, or for my repo to be placed back in the MM repo.

andyc7687

@aidandon you will only need to cd MagicMirror and run node server only immediately after first install if you want it straight away. Otherwise when you reboot it will go automatically (after about a 1 minute or so wait)

idoodler

@andyc7687 Nice work. I think you should fork the MagicMirror repository, add merge your scripts with the installers/raspberry.sh script for direct implementation in the project.

andyc7687

@idoodler Thanks for that advice, I have forked the original MagicMirror repo, but no idea how to merge scripts on github…

idoodler

@andyc7687 You need to do the following:

Clone your forked repository to your local machine
Adopt installers/raspberry.sh to include your Raspberry Pi Zero specific code
Commit and push your changes to Github
Test it on a Raspberry Pi Zero by execute bash -c "$(curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ac2799/MagicMirror/master/installers/raspberry.sh)"
Create a Pull Request on the original MagicMirror repository

Just contact me if you need any help, I can also test your changes, I have a spare Raspberry Pi Zero W on hand.

andyc7687

@idoodler Great! I think I may have done it! I have tested most of it I think on a Pi Zero W and on a Pi 3B+; is anyone able to check whether any of my changes have affected usability on the Pi 3B and Pi 2 before I submit the pull request?

idoodler

@andyc7687 I am able to try it today, I will contact you again.

idoodler

@andyc7687 I just noticed, is this a server only installation?

andyc7687

@idoodler I didn’t really understand what was the difference between server only and not. This installs magic mirror, runs it as server only and runs three chromium browser on start-up to display it all… functionally I couldn’t tell the difference, but there might be something I’m missing