HackerShackOfficial / Smart-Mirror

Raspberry powered mirror which can display news, weather, calendar events
MIT License
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Smart-Mirror

Raspberry powered mirror which can display the news, weather, and time.

Installation and Updating

Code

If you have git installed, clone the repository.

git clone git@github.com:HackerHouseYT/Smart-Mirror.git

Alternatively, you can download a zip file containing the project (green button on the repository page)

Navigate to the folder for the repository

cd Smart-Mirror

Install your dependencies

make sure you have pip installed before doing this

sudo pip install -r requirements.txt
sudo apt-get install python-imaging-tk

Add your api token

Make sure vim is installed on your system: sudo apt-get install vim Use vim to edit you file

vim smartmirror.py

replace weather_api_token with the token you got from forecast.io

Running

To run the application run the following command in this folder

python smartmirror.py

Demo and Build Instructions

(click image for link to video) Link to youtube how-to video