Great work Wieber. That’s a great guide. You saved me a lot of time.

I followed it step by step and noticed a few things missing, so here they are:

Step 6
git is not installed by default so you’ll need to install it first:

sudo apt-get install git

Then before running ‘sudo npm install’ you need to do this:

cd MagicMirror

Step 11
To use xset (for stopping the screen blanking) you first need to install the xset command:

sudo apt-get install x11-xserver-utils

start.sh should start with this line:

#!/bin/bash

chmod should be run with sudo:

sudo chmod a+x /home/pi/start.sh

Also…

Instead of adding start.sh to the end of .bashrc, it’s better practice to have the
script run automatically on start-up. To do this:

sudo mv /home/pi/start.sh /etc/init.d/startMagicMirror.sh
sudo update-rc.d startMagicMirror.sh defaults 100

This moves the script to the standard location for start-up scripts and tells the
system to run it after each boot.

I think if you do this, there’s no need to log in automatically (so you can skip step 10 above).

Forgot to add:

Step 11
Instead of
sudo nano /home/pi/startMidori

it should read:
sudo nano /home/pi/startMidori.sh

And as Burner911 mentioned, insert

unclutter &

to midori.sh between the second last and last line.

@randombullet I’m afraid I don’t think I can help much. I simply followed all the steps above and it worked for me. Perhaps you missed a step, but it would be hard to say what. Perhaps the easiest thing to do is to re-flash the jessi-lite image and go through the steps again :(

@randombullet I got error when installing npm too, but can’t recall what they were. I just ignored them and everything works fine anyway. Try starting it up and see what happens.

@Burner911 No sorry, I haven’t try that module, but as far as I’m aware running on a Zero should impact the modules at all so it could be a separate issue.

Forgot to add:

Step 11
Instead of
sudo nano /home/pi/startMidori

it should read:
sudo nano /home/pi/startMidori.sh

And as Burner911 mentioned, insert

unclutter &

to midori.sh between the second last and last line.

Great work Wieber. That’s a great guide. You saved me a lot of time.

I followed it step by step and noticed a few things missing, so here they are:

Step 6
git is not installed by default so you’ll need to install it first:

sudo apt-get install git

Then before running ‘sudo npm install’ you need to do this:

cd MagicMirror

Step 11
To use xset (for stopping the screen blanking) you first need to install the xset command:

sudo apt-get install x11-xserver-utils

start.sh should start with this line:

#!/bin/bash

chmod should be run with sudo:

sudo chmod a+x /home/pi/start.sh

Also…

Instead of adding start.sh to the end of .bashrc, it’s better practice to have the
script run automatically on start-up. To do this:

sudo mv /home/pi/start.sh /etc/init.d/startMagicMirror.sh
sudo update-rc.d startMagicMirror.sh defaults 100

This moves the script to the standard location for start-up scripts and tells the
system to run it after each boot.

I think if you do this, there’s no need to log in automatically (so you can skip step 10 above).

I think it’s quite normal for them to bleed light in darkness - the one-way-mirror needs light on the ‘outside’ in order to overpower the light from the monitor.

If you’re not seeing much when the lights are on, then you can try moving the mirror into a different position - the angle of teh light can make a difference.

Also, have you tried playing around with the backlight settings, contrast etc on the monitor?

I got this one for 200 euro in MediaMarkt:

http://tweakers.net/pricewatch/435115/lg-27mp37vq-b-zwart.html

It’s very thin - especially without the bezel (I think it’s 13mm at its thickest) and the control board is completely detachable and only slightly bigger than the Raspberry Pi. It was a very easy install. Only downside is that the HDMI cable comes straight out - the back they all seem to these days. I solved this with a 90 degree HDMI cable.