@SebTota Thanks so much!!! I’ll download it over night and try it in the morning and get back to you. Hopefully there is no difference between pi zeros?

@SebTota Please I would appreciate that so much. Im on the verge of giving up and sticking with p3’s. I was really excited about being able to create a few mirrors with the cheaper board, so thanks again for sharing.

@SebTota I currently have a 32 in there but the final im hoping will go on a 16 at least. Will the file you’re sending over be a clean first install for the zero?

@Wieber Thanks for the response wieber. Im actually using randombullets guide where he moves the file into the init.d folder.

Thing is i cant get MM to run the server and use a laptop to connect to the pi@8080 and it shows the mirror. I can also run the following commands via SSH to get the MM running on the pi!!! …but i cant AT ALL get the MM window up on the pi automatically using the shell scripts.

Its obviously running the server command as I can access via another computer on the network (which has access via ip whitelist in the config file)

I just need to know why none of the commands after node serveronly arent executing?

@SebTota that would be absolutely amazing… i’ve spent days trying to get this working. I was being pretty persistent wanting to figure this out myself but its just getting to be a little too much time wasted.

I’d appreciate it very much if you could. Thanks.

So I’ve managed to get MM to start using PM2 and can access the page via my laptop.

Only problem I have now is I cant get Midori to auto start, I’m using the same commands from the startmidori script in the mm.sh script for pm2.

So I had a few errors along the way and had to install some libraries etc and managed to get past a bunch of errors. (libgconf-2-4 and libxss1 for anyone who ends up here!)

But now im at the point where midori loads but has a connection refused page. When I ssh in i can put the command “node serveronly” and it starts up and has a nice log going, or I can use the “DISPLAY=:0 npm start” and it seems all fine with the following lines and no more errors:

magicmirror@2.1.0 start /home/pi/MagicMirror
electron js/electron.js

just not sure whats happening as midori is showing connection refused…maybe the startup script “startMagicMirror” is not actually executing the node serveronly command???

Any help would be appreciated.

Update: Ok so running the “node serveronly” command from ssh and then pointing my laptop browser to the rpi:8080 loads up the MM. But Midori on the Pi is still showing that connection refused. Also…i followed the guide fully so why is the serveronly command not executed by the startup script we put in init.d?
Also is there a way for me to see this node serveronly log on the MM screen (say i dont start midori and leave it on the command line?)

@SebTota Will do but first…
If i make a backup of my memory card and i mess up what im doing now can i just copy the backup back on with finder/explorer and be right back where i was?

thanks @SebTota

@SebTota yeah i realized that, but have a pi zero running lite as i dont require full. was hoping that if i did install vnc and all the dependencies if it would be possible to vnc in and see the mirror as it would in a monitor?

If i don’t currently have a monitor is there a way for me to test the output of the MM when running on the zero with Raspbian lite via VNC ?

@joanaz Yeah i suppose i should actually have asked if Alexa pi would run well on a zero? Im assuming it would…its not really doing any processing, just sending stuff to amazon.

Would this run on a pi zero?

@meneldour thanks for the offer! I will give this a shot in a few days and will keep your offer in mind. Really appreciated! Im really excited for this.

@meneldour Im thinking of switching my installation to a pi zero. What are your thoughts around the performance? Id probably be using things like PIR and bringing in data from OpenHAB, news, weather, calendar etc…

Right now I’m running everything separately (MM2 and OpenHab) on 2 separate RP3s. I’m just wondering if I can run OpenHab (running most of the things in my house) and Magic Mirror 2 on the same RPi3 without any performance issues? I would require this to be pretty stable and the family uses OpenHab and not being techy wouldnt be very impressed if it suddenly went down lol. Not sure my wife would know where to start fixing things.

I figure the MM is always on (using a PIR sensor for the screen) and if it has extra bandwidth to run OpenHab might as well do them on the same board that way I can free up the other Pi. I also just got a new Pi Zero specifically for running the MM but then I can also use this for something else.

I’ve been looking around but havent found much on the topic and I can’t say that I’m an expert on Linux resourcing etc…

@Wieber Thanks, I would be using the Button module, PIR sensor module, Wunderlist module, and I want to try adding the Alexa module once i transfer it over to the Pi?

Another thing I was thinking would be to integrate this into my openhab setup to bring in the status of various sensors.

I have MM2 running quite well on my Pi3 but I’d like to free up the Pi3 and use my zero for the MM2. Has anyone seen any real downsides to using the Pi Zero over the Pi3?