Install

MirrorCommand Installation

MagicMirror Installation

MirrorCommand is intended for installation on a system running MagicMirror. If MagicMirror is not previously installed it can be installed following these instructions. Alternatively, the MirrorCommand Debian or RPM package format installation will automatically install and configure MagicMirror if no existing MagicMirror installation is detected. This automated installation of MagicMirror includes installing and configuring PM2 for easy and powerful process management of MagicMirror as well as the installation of several MagicMirror 3rd party modules used by MirrorCommand.

Note: An actual mirror with display mounted on the rear is not necessary. MagicMirror can be installed on a Raspberry Pi with a mirror display as intended or it can be installed on a Debian based Linux system (e.g. Ubuntu Linux) or an RPM based Linux system (e.g. Fedora Linux) with standard monitor and desktop environment.

MagicMirror requires Node version 12 or later.

MirrorCommand assumes that MagicMirror is installed in either /usr/local/MagicMirror or a user’s home directory.

To install MagicMirror simply install MirrorCommand using the Debian or RPM package format available at the MirrorCommand Releases area of the Git repository.

If MagicMirror is not installed in either /usr/local/MagicMirror or a non-root user’s home directory, then the MirrorCommand installation will ask if you wish to install MagicMirror and, if so, will install MagicMirror in /usr/local. In addition to performing a MagicMirror installation and configuration, the MirrorCommand installation will install and configure several MagicMirror modules and PM2 process management.

Alternatively, MagicMirror can be installed manually following these steps:

• Change directory to either /usr/local or a non-root user’s home directory
• From either /usr/local or a non-root user’s home directory, execute the following commands:
  • Download and install the latest Node.js version
    • curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_14.x | sudo -E bash -
    • sudo apt install -y nodejs
  • Clone the repository and check out the master branch
    • git clone https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror
  • Enter the repository
    • cd MagicMirror
  • Install the application
    • npm install
  • Make a copy of the config sample file
    • cp config/config.js.sample config/config.js
  • Start the application
    • npm run start

To start the MagicMirror over SSH from a remote terminal, use the commands:

• cd /path/to/MagicMirror
• DISPLAY=${DISPLAY:=:0} nohup npm start &

To access the toolbar menu when in mirror mode, press the ALT key.

MirrorCommand Installation

MirrorCommand v3.0 and later can be installed on Linux systems using either the Debian packaging format or the Red Hat Package Manager (RPM).

Pre Installation

XHOST: The automated configuration requires access to some X11 graphical utilities. Depending upon your system’s X11 configuration, it may be necessary to grant the root user access to the display. To do so, prior to installation issue the command:

xhost +si:localuser:root

or grant everyone access with

xhost +

ROON: If you plan to install both the RoonCommandLine package and the MirrorCommand package on the same system then in order to enable automatic configuration of MirrorCommand’s Roon configuration files, the RoonCommandLine package must be installed before the MirrorCommand package.

After granting X11 access with xhost and optionally installing RoonCommandLine, install MirrorCommand following either the Debian package installation guide or RPM package installation guide.

Debian Package installation

Many Linux distributions, most notably Ubuntu and its derivatives, use the Debian packaging system.

To tell if a Linux system is Debian based it is usually sufficient to check for the existence of the file /etc/debian_version and/or examine the contents of the file /etc/os-release.

To install on a Debian based Linux system, download the latest Debian format package from the MirrorCommand releases.

Install the MirrorCommand package by executing the command

sudo apt install ./MirrorCommand_<version>-<release>.deb

or

sudo dpkg -i ./MirrorCommand_<version>-<release>.deb

RPM Package installation

Red Hat Linux, SUSE Linux, and their derivatives use the RPM packaging format. RPM based Linux distributions include Fedora, AlmaLinux, CentOS, openSUSE, OpenMandriva, Mandrake Linux, Red Hat Linux, and Oracle Linux.

To install on an RPM based Linux system, download the latest RPM format package from the MirrorCommand releases.

Install the MirrorCommand package by executing the command

sudo yum localinstall ./MirrorCommand_<version>-<release>.rpm

or

sudo rpm -i ./MirrorCommand_<version>-<release>.rpm