How To: Make Your Own Smart Mirror! part 1

This video is part 1 of the Smart Mirror setup series that will involve the setup, construction, and configuration of the Smart Mirror. In this video I show how to set up the initial MagicMIrror2 software onto a raspberry Pi 3.

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[MrCcarter]

Excellent and very good step by step tutorial! Thank you for posting this video! God bless.

[eyefytdraginzsf]

Good Job man, This is a solid video with no missed steps. I appreciate the time and effort you put into making this.

[koulouri]

nice, explanatory video... I have been searching the whole web; no one there, to do it in detail.

[vanshaj]

Hey i am stuck when i add the command for pm2 start MagicMirror, no screen appears, can you help me out please, i too did uncomment but no output came.

[luedjamjekazaku]

what should i do the terminal says unable to install dependencies ?

[officialjoeynguyen]

I have a RPI3, It seems you skip the video at 14:07. Which one should I choose to disable wireless power?

[Dave]

hmm when I set mine up I didn't add "avoid warnings" just the "display rotate" hopefully thats ok!

[youthsportsfilms]

when i try to install it says (Installing dependencies... bash: line 112 npm: command not found) Unable to install dependencies! What can I do??? Thank you for your time in advances.

[yawasubonteng]

Hey Taylor thus a great job there! how do I make a touchscreen? ...and what're the components needed? thanks for inspiring the world!

[nazarcp]

Awesome, really helped me setting it up.

[christophercrews]

I did "sudo nano /ect/lightdm/lightdm.conf" and it's all blank. At the bottom of the box it displays "[new file]"

Will that be an issue?

[afiqahzubir]

I have problem on installing the magic mirror into the pi. I have ran the bash command but there was nothing happen. what should I do to fix this problem?

[carloscaceres]

For 13:57 I only have Seat configuration not Seat default

[peterclinchoc]

when restarting the device I have two instances running MagicMirror and mm. If I run pm2 list it shows both. I can kill the processes by pm2 stop mm / pm2 stop MagicMirror. Can you help in only getting the mm instance to run at start.

[simondevantier]

Hello TaylorTech
I have follow you totoail how to make this magicmirror, and it is arwsome
But my mirror keeps go to sleep mode, is there any way to provent that? An even better if you can make a timer, so it goes to black at night and is on during the day? Thanks

[chrisschuur]

Im having trouble getting into the magic mirror settings as far as like changing the time format etc. Its saying permission denied. I was wondering if you could help out

[dman]

I have 4 identical 24 inch led monitors I'd like to try this with (because I couldn't bring my self to try this with a large, functional led television). Do you have any ideas about what the effects of having multiple monitors behind the mirror might be?

[eugenpopa]

great project
thanx for the video
is possible to add google assistant to the mirror ?
and if yes, can make a video how to do that, will be fantastic
thanx

[tonypineda]

Hi tylor, I have a question for you. I saw on my magic mirror a note that it has an update, but I do not know how to update it? Can you help me with this? Thank you.

[Seviitor]

Problem: Okay so when I install it everything goes fine and my terminal looks just like yours it even says the MagicMirror's status is online however it does not come up on my screen? I've tried pm2 stop and pm2 start but same thing it just says its online but nothing appears. Please help, thanks.