Reflect Setup Guide

This is a guide for setting up Reflect. I personally use this guide for my own magic mirror because the Raspberry Pi SD card gets corrupted every once and a while, and I end up needing to reinstall the entire OS.

Steps

Install Raspbian 10 (Buster) using Raspberry Pi Imager. Note: you must use Buster because Mopidy only supports Buster at the moment.
Change the local domain for easier access.

First change the hostname; change from raspberrypi to mirror in /etc/hosts and /etc/hostname.

Then, install avahi-daemon, commit the changes, and reboot:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install avahi-daemon
sudo /etc/init.d/hostname.sh
sudo reboot

Enable SSH & VNC. Do sudo raspi-config, go to Interface Options, and enable both.

Now, you should be able to unplug the external keyboard/mouse and SSH/VNC from your computer.

Rotate the screen 90° by adding these to /boot/config.txt:

display_rotate=1
display_hdmi_rotate=1
lcd_rotate=1

Install Apache and PHP:

sudo apt install -y apache2 php php-common php-curl
sudo phpenmod curl
sudo service apache2 restart

Configure git globally (optional — I do this in case I need to commit hotfixes from my RPI)

sudo git config --global credential.helper store

Install Reflect into /var/www/:

sudo rm -Rf /var/www/html/
sudo git clone <reflect repo URL> /var/www/html/

Change directory permissions, owner, and group on /var/www/ so www-data can read/write/execute.
Add www-data as sudoer with no password (sudo visudo):

www-data     ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL

Install Mopidy (and dependencies), Mopidy-Spotify, Mopidy-MPD, Mopidy-ALSA, Mopidy-Iris.
Install MPD:

sudo apt-get install -y mpc

Configure Mopidy in /etc/mopidy/mopidy.conf:

# For information about configuration values that can be set in this file see:
#
#   https://docs.mopidy.com/en/latest/config/
#
# Run `sudo mopidyctl config` to see the current effective config, based on
# both defaults and this configuration file.

[audio]
mixer = alsamixer
output = alsasink

[alsamixer]
card = 0
control = HDMI

[http]
enabled = true
hostname = 0.0.0.0
port = 6680

[spotify]
username = # username
password = # password
client_id = # client ID from https://mopidy.com/ext/spotify/
client_secret = # client secret from https://mopidy.com/ext/spotify/

Install Chromium browser command line tool and cursor hider:

sudo apt-get install chromium-browser unclutter

Run both of the above on startup (/etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart):

@chromium-browser --kiosk http://localhost/
@unclutter -idle 0

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Reflect Setup Guide

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