#Installing magic mirror modules full#

But after almost 2 days of installing the right service and getting the Assistant running in dev mode, I found out that the Google Assistant Service no more supports hotword activation. I think it was my preferrential choice over Alexa. So the option of playing music by simply saying Alexa, play Hurricane by Thrice does not do anything except Alexa replying that Music cannot be played on this device.īefore moving to Alexa, I had initially installed Google Assistant. Sadly, Amazon Music can be used only in commercial Alexa apps. If you think adding Alexa brings Amazon Music with it then you are wrong. For the ones who love frameworks, those work here too! I find using React or Vue here much benefitial because they have a large number of prebuilt components that can be added in the app. If you had to build this on your own, you need a simple HTML page and some proper CSS to go with it. IpWhitelist : ,įor someone curious, MagicMirror is basically an Electron app that renders a HTML UI and displays widgets according to the config file. Copy the contents from and paste them to the newly created config.js. The repository already has a which can be used to extend any required widgets. To edit the screen layout you'll have to create a config.js file inside /config directory. A start-up service can be created so that this app loads up on every boot, if that's what is required. This is the simplest way to get a magic mirror running. I has a calendar, a clock, some news and a greeting widget.

#Installing magic mirror modules full#

When you start the app, the Pi would enter full screen mode and the default screen for MagicMirror would be visible. It is open source and has several widgets that you can add to the screen by just adding a few lines to a config file.

If a minimal setup is sufficient for you, cloning MagicMirror would be sufficient. I had cloned the MagicMirror repo, so running npm start ran just fine it would open the MagicMirror UI which had its default widgets. It was almost midnight when the mirror finally hung on the wall, so I wasn't in the exact mood of setting up the UI. In the first part, I wrote about how we got the mirror up and running - honestly the feeling of accomplishment was amazing. If you haven't read the first part, you might want to → Part 1. This is the second post in the Building a Smart Mirror blog series.