A Magic Mirror for Raspberry Pi (MagicMirror²)
A Magic Mirror for Raspberry Pi
MagicMirror² is an open source modular smart mirror platform. With a growing list of installable modules, the MagicMirror² allows you to convert your hallway or bathroom mirror into your personal assistant. MagicMirror² is the winner in the official Raspberry Pi magazine’s 50th issue celebration feature voted by the Raspberry Pi community.
This plugin installs in a few steps the MagicMirror² project on top of Raspberry Digital Signage. Code is built by the creator of the original MagicMirror with the incredible help of a growing community of contributors.
Quite cool actually.
See the plugin page for more.
Raspberry Digital Signage 18 released
Raspberry Digital Signage 18.0 released
Raspberry Digital Signage is an operating system designed for digital signage installations on the Raspberry Pi: it displays a full-screen browser view restricted to a specified resource. It shows web resources from Internet, local network or local folders (so you can use the Pi itself as the source webserver).
Raspberry Digital Signage comes with the latest Chromium builds (featuring HTML5 capabilities), so you can display more attractive resources, more easily.
Changelog for v.18.0 follows:
- Chromium settings persistence logic more intuitive;
- underlying base system has been updated to the latest Raspberry Pi OS Lite, v.11, Bullseye. Chromium 98 and rpi-chromium-mods 20220111 packages are amongst the others.
Download here.
Raspberry Slideshow 15.0 has been released
Raspberry Slideshow is an operating system for the Raspberry Pi microcomputer lineup used for digital signage when you need images’ or videos’ slideshows.
It plays all media contained in a USB key, fetched from a network share, from a webserver, from a folder of your Dropbox account and loaded via scp as well.
The operating system can refresh the media list in order to slide images and videos according to any remote change (addition or deletion of a media file). An optional photos’ rotation based on embedded EXIF informations is available.
Version 15.0 changelog (maintenance release)
- Dropbox feature restored (it was broken since Dropbox changed their API – again);
- system has been updated to the latest Raspberry Pi OS Lite (formerly known as Raspbian Lite).
You can download the operating system and have a look at its manual in the download page.