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Magic mirror raspberry pi reddit how to#

The RaspberryPi has a normal instance of Raspbian Buster installed.

Magic mirror raspberry pi reddit how to#

It’s well detailed on how to install it on your Home Assistant instance: RaspberryPi Prep I am going to ask you nicely to follow the guide on the TileBoard repo. For reference, here is where I bought my acrylic from CutPlasticSheeting’s website.You don’t need 2 way glass, don’t but that expensive stuff! Instead, buy a pane of glass (which is much cheaper), and use some 2 way mirror film on it. The only reason being that the reflection is distored and looks like a funny circus mirror from some angles. I went with Acrylic but am shortly changing it out for Glass.The frame is 2.25" deep which allows for the monitor sit along with the brackets to hang on the wall.

I built the frame using wood from a local B&Q (Hardware Store in the UK).

I would recommend a USB output as this will ensure only 1 power cable is needed for the whole mirror.

I had an 22" LG monitor spare but you can use any monitor.

Since there will be no user fancy animations, performance isn’t really an issue.

No specific model really, I use a 3B+ but the Pi is only being used for the web browser to render the tiles.

A RaspberryPi (with microSD card - 8GB atleast).

For this, my Home Assistant instance is on a dedicated server but ** my TileBoard theme is heavily styled** to get the layout I wanted (Read more below).

An instance of Home Assistant with TileBoard installed.

Home Assistant is a big part of my daily routine what with the automations and smart home control. For this project, I used Home Assistant with TileBoard. That brings me to last month where I had time to spend on getting it working again.

It got switched off a few months ago as the UI broke and didn’t have time to get it working. It was a project that I wanted to do for a while and completed it about a year ago.