Raspberry Pi Smart Mirror

Description

In this video, we show you how to make an easy raspberry pi powered home smart mirror. It displays applications so that you can check the weather and local news while you are getting ready in the morning. It's also modular, so you can easy move it around or hang it on the wall if you like. We've created a basic application that you can run on the mirror, but it's totally customizable if you want to write some of your own code.

In the future, we plan to add AI components to make this fully automated. We are drawing inspiration from this project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc9UbREmo58. Stay tuned for a future video about that!

Find all our 3D printable files on our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hackershack

Details

In this video, we show you how to build the mirror:

The mirror consists of a wooden frame and a low profile monitor which sandwiches the acrylic sheet (see through mirror) to the back of the frame. This model shows you how the monitor sits behind some 3d printed brackets we made:

We built the wooden frame by glueing several pieces of 1x3 and 1x2 together.

Once the frame was done, we loaded some application code on the raspberry pi.

Here's the finished product!

UPDATE: We added an AI to the mirror

We created another video recently that show you how to add artificial intelligence to the mirror. We created this AI and use Wit.ai for the natural language processing. Since the code is open source, anyone can help to make the AI smarter.

Unfortunately, the AI is too much for a Raspberry Pi to handle, so we created a guide on how to set it up on a Mac.

Here is a link to the Github repository: https://github.com/HackerHouseYT/AI-Smart-Mirror

Components

1 × Low profile monitor (we used an old led display)

1 × 12 ft - 1x3 plank

1 × 12ft - 1x2 plank

1 × 18" - 24" Acrylic See-Through Mirror, 1mm https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01CZ35XWY/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

1 × Wood glue

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Chris Fitz wrote 02/05/2021 at 20:21

How difficult would it be to display custom reminders along with the weather?

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abhishekkoley44 wrote 03/07/2019 at 08:22

I am using Linux OS and i am getting this error when i am trying to start the mirror!

> magicmirror@2.6.0 start /home/abhishek/MagicMirror
> sh run-start.sh

/usr/bin/env: ‘node’: No such file or directory

npm ERR! Linux 4.15.0-45-generic
npm ERR! argv "/usr/bin/nodejs" "/usr/bin/npm" "start"
npm ERR! node v4.2.6
npm ERR! npm v3.5.2
npm ERR! file sh
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno ENOENT
npm ERR! syscall spawn
npm ERR! magicmirror@2.6.0 start: `sh run-start.sh`
npm ERR! spawn ENOENT
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the magicmirror@2.6.0 start script 'sh run-start.sh'.
npm ERR! Make sure you have the latest version of node.js and npm installed.
npm ERR! If you do, this is most likely a problem with the magicmirror package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR! sh run-start.sh
npm ERR! You can get information on how to open an issue for this project with:
npm ERR! npm bugs magicmirror
npm ERR! Or if that isn't available, you can get their info via:
npm ERR! npm owner ls magicmirror
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR! /home/abhishek/MagicMirror/npm-debug.log

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Altaf wrote 09/19/2018 at 13:43

Instead of displaying weather and all. Can i display a website that i developed or any other website. Also when displaying it can i make it display full screen not just small part only. I want to make it display the mirror size. Can someone help me?

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Tzu wrote 08/13/2018 at 07:45

I'd really love to make a couple of these for my mom and little sister, both are technically impaired - naturally, as the only tech in the family, I'm concerned about general stability/usability. Anyone experienced with the software side of these care to offer a 'heads up' if this gift would require my ongoing support to function?

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gfinancemax wrote 08/06/2018 at 13:52

Hi great project. I followed all steps, however I have trouble to install FFmpeg and opencv. Could you share the image of micro sd card.

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neil wrote 04/11/2018 at 06:51

Hi! We really like this project and want to feature it on our website. If you are interested, kindly drop me a message on my e-mail: neilmula.eeweb@gmail.com . I'll be looking forward to your response! Thanks.

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kharipriya2903 wrote 12/26/2017 at 14:31

can i have the block diagram of this project

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shubhampoul123 wrote 09/29/2017 at 16:21

which software use in it

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zahrasadat wrote 08/21/2017 at 05:30

I have installed MagicMirror² on raspberry pi 3 by :

bash -c "$(curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/master/installers/raspberry.sh)"

and it works very well but I don't know how can I active my microphon & webcam to use magic mirror, it just shows me news & weather & clock & I cant ask something by microphon.would you please help me?

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Mario1957 wrote 08/15/2017 at 18:29

Sehr schönes Projekt, Danke

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carterjsherman wrote 07/28/2017 at 00:20

3.15 x 20.02 x 11.88 in too large of a monitor?

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carterjsherman wrote 07/28/2017 at 00:19

Can someone recommend a good cheap monitor? I found one that might work.. but im worried its too big https://www.amazon.com/Acer-G226HQL-21-5-Inch-Screen-Monitor/dp/B009POS0GS/ref=pd_sbs_147_5?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B009POS0GS&pd_rd_r=7EE912145T3ZJZV278CK&pd_rd_w=QKxJh&pd_rd_wg=OJrnC&psc=1&refRID=7EE912145T3ZJZV278CK

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pdpro wrote 04/28/2017 at 05:10

Reminded me of harry potter mirror

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restymdp wrote 03/15/2017 at 02:12

Hi, I'd like to ask for some help regarding this project. I'm currently on my senior year in college and would like to build a smart mirror as our final year project. It would be a great help if you could. Thank you.

P.S. : Is it okay if I use a Linux OS instead of MAC OS? Has there been an issue with this?

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carterjsherman wrote 07/28/2017 at 00:20

Nope that'll work fine

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Benjamin Broce wrote 03/11/2017 at 00:18

Try checking out the MagicMirror^2 software on github - It's modular and works incredibly well!

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Bas Groothedde wrote 03/05/2017 at 14:16

Very cool project, it's gorgeous!

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Technology_Jun wrote 02/19/2017 at 09:00

It's great. I will fellow your guys

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Sammy.green wrote 01/18/2017 at 12:49

can a box for Google Calendar added? It be nice to see my daily schedule as well

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abou824 wrote 01/15/2017 at 17:49

I loaded the corner bracket file into several different programs and the scale is incorrect. What are the correct measurements for the part?

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tylerhsu12 wrote 01/12/2017 at 15:09

ive done every thing in the video but it wont display the weather it says that no json object could be decoded

when I run the app It shows these failures

File "smartmirror.py", line 158, in get_weather
weather_obj = json.loads(r.text)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/__init__.py", line 338, in loads
return _default_decoder.decode(s)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 366, in decode
obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 384, in raw_decode
raise ValueError("No JSON object could be decoded")
ValueError: No JSON object could be decoded
Error: No JSON object could be decoded. Cannot get weather.

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