msroest/rpi-magicmirror-eink

MagicMirror on 7.5 ePaper Waveshare Display with a Raspberry Pi

## How it works This is a fork of [rpi-magicmirror-eink](https://github.com/BenRoe/rpi-magicmirror-eink) from [BenRoe](https://github.com/BenRoe) Update to build and publish a docker container to minimize drift in chromium. And simplify the setup by just using linux cron to actually run the script

Requirements

• Raspberry Pi with Raspbian
• Waveshare epaper display any version supprted by (https://pypi.org/project/waveshare-epaper/)
• running MagicMirror (serveronly)

Resources

• 3d printable frame or alternate frame
• MagicMirror Module List

Install dependencies

• Install docker

Setup

• Clone/copy the project files to your system.

git clone https://github.com/msroest/rpi-magicmirror-eink.git

• Move to the project folder

cd rpi-magicmirror-eink

• Enable SPI on your raspberrypi

• Setup python venv

python3 -m venv .venv
./.venv/bin/pip3 install -r requirements.txt

• Update run.sh variables at the top of the file to set your magicmirror host/port, display resolution and eink model

• Setup a cronjob to run the run script on whatever schedule you'd like

*/5 * * * * /path/to/rpi-magicmirror-eink/run.sh > /dev/null 2>&1