{"id":140427,"date":"2022-11-27T00:56:58","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T00:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/magic-mirror-on-a-low-cpu-budget\/"},"modified":"2022-11-27T00:56:58","modified_gmt":"2022-11-27T00:56:58","slug":"magic-mirror-on-a-low-cpu-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/magic-mirror-on-a-low-cpu-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic Mirror \u2013 On A Low CPU Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-563636\">\n    <!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>For quite a few hackers out there, it&#8217;s still hard to find a decently powerful Raspberry Pi for a non-eye-watering price. [Rupin Chheda] wanted to build a magic mirror with a web-based frontend, and a modern enough Raspberry Pi would&#8217;ve worked just fine.  Sadly, all he could get was single-1 GHz-core 512MB-RAM Zero W boards, which he found unable to run Chromium well enough given the stock Raspbian Desktop install, let alone a webserver alongside it.  Not to give up, [Rupin] gives us a step-by-step breakdown on creating a low-footprint Raspbian install showing a single webpage.<\/p>\n<p>Starting with Raspbian Lite, a distribution that doesn&#8217;t ship with any desktop features by default, he shows how to equip it with a minimal GUI \u2013 no desktop environment needed, just an X server with the OpenBox window manager, as you don&#8217;t need more for a kiosk mode application.  In place of Chromium, you can install Midori, which is a lean browser that works quite well in single-website mode, and [Rupin] shows you how to make it autostart, as well as the little quirks that make sure your display doesn&#8217;t go to sleep.  The webserver runs in Heroku cloud, but we wager that, with such a minimal install, it could as well run on the device itself.<\/p>\n<p>With these instructions, you can easily build a low-power single-page browser when all you have is a fairly basic Raspberry Pi board.  Of course, magic mirrors are a well-researched topic by now, but you can always put a new spin on an old topic, like in this this retro-tv-based build.  You don&#8217;t have to build a magic mirror to make use of this hack, either \u2013 build a recipe kiosk!<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- .entry-footer -->\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For quite a few hackers out there, it&#8217;s still hard to find a decently powerful Raspberry Pi for a non-eye-watering price. [Rupin Chheda] wanted to build a magic mirror with a web-based frontend, and a modern enough Raspberry Pi would&#8217;ve worked just fine. Sadly, all he could get was single-1 GHz-core 512MB-RAM Zero W boards, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/magic-mirror-on-a-low-cpu-budget\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Magic Mirror \u2013 On A Low CPU Budget<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.10 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Magic Mirror \u2013 On A Low CPU Budget - harchi90<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/__i\/rss\/rd\/articles\/CBMiQWh0dHBzOi8vaGFja2FkYXkuY29tLzIwMjIvMTEvMjYvbWFnaWMtbWlycm9yLW9uLWEtbG93LWNwdS1idWRnZXQv0gEA?oc=5\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Magic Mirror \u2013 On A Low CPU Budget - harchi90\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"For quite a few hackers out there, it&#8217;s still hard to find a decently powerful Raspberry Pi for a non-eye-watering price. 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