The goal of this smart mirror project was to build a smart mirror display from scratch using only Python, with the intention of really only seeing a bare minimum of important information to help me get dressed in the morning:

1. Tell me the weather right now
2. Tell me the next time I can expect a non-trivial amount of rain

And try to not look shitty in the process.

This README deals exclusively with the software side of the project, and will not cover the actual buildout in any way.

Some of the nuances of this project are taylored toward the very specific hardware build I'm running, which is with a Raspberry Pi 3.

Getting everything to play nicely together was definitely not easy. Most software versioning is accounted for in the requirements.txt file, but a couple others of note:

• SDL 2.0.14
• Python 3.9.2

Install the full 32 bit version with CLI. For whatever reason this sets things up better. Enable SSH Clone the repo onto the device Make venv with python -m venv ./venv

Font support: sudo apt-get install python3-sdl2

Install requirements:

• Activate venv
• pip install -r requirements.txt

Replace the pi's /boot/config.txt with /PROJECT_DIRECTORY_HERE/REFS/config.txt

To stop the hwmon low voltage warning messages from printing to the console, which kills the app, add:

sudo dmesg -n 1

to /etc/rc.local (src: https://askubuntu.com/questions/97256/how-do-i-disable-messages-or-logging-from-printing-on-the-console-virtual-termin/97318#97318)

And modify /etc/sysctl.conf:

# Uncomment the following to stop low-level messages on console
#kernel.printk = 3 4 1 3    <-------- UNCOMMENT THIS LINE

(src: https://superuser.com/questions/351387/how-to-stop-kernel-messages-from-flooding-my-console)

Reboot

Run the app