MagicMirrorAPI

======= An application to display a GUI behind a observation mirror on an Raspberry Pi or similar.

  • News are fetched from New York Times.
  • Weather from SMHI
  • Bus departures from Skånetrafiken
  • Reddit posts from Reddit's API

Configuration

All configuration us done inside the config.properties file.

New York Times API key retrieval can be found here: http://developer.nytimes.com/

# Weather location in long and latitude
lat=13.20
longitude=55.70

# Skånetrafiken parameters, start and end station name
hplatsD=Värnhem
hplatsA=Lund LTH

# Reddit parameters, subreddit to show posts from
subreddit=programming
#hot/new/rising/top
sort=hot

# News parameters world/technology/science/sports/trending
newsCat=technology

# APIkey for NYTimes received from http://developer.nytimes.com/
APIkey=key

Running

Have the jar and the config.properties files in the same folder before running.

$ java -jar MagicMirrorAPI.jar

Pics

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