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Wassim Gharbi edited this page Apr 18, 2018 · 2 revisions

MirrorOS

Thank you very much for supporting the MirrorOS project! MirrorOS is meant to be an interactive interface for smart mirrors and transparent screens that combines a futuristic UI with interesting functionalities.

Please be aware that MirrorOS is currently at the "proof of concept" stage. Almost all features are broken/in an early stage, for a more mature solution (non-interactive) please visit the MagicMirror project here at https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror

Hardware

We recommend the following hardware to create an interactive Smart Mirror:

  • Raspberry Pi Model 3
  • Computer Monitor or TV Screen (with HDMI input)
  • Capacitive Touch Frame (http://bit.ly/2nn4Lo7) or Leap Motion Controller (less accurate because of Mirror reflection)
  • Raspberry Pi Camera (for face recognition and later on gesture recognition)
  • Two-way Mirror Sheet (http://bit.ly/2mCYJ2J) A regular mirror WON'T work .

Installing on Raspberry Pi

Although MirrorOS currently supports all platforms (thanks to Node and Electron!), it was created with a Raspberry Pi setup in mind. Raspberry Pi computers are very cheap (<$30) and small (can be embedded in a mirror frame).

Pre-requisites

MirrorOS requires a few libraries and packages to be installed on your system :

  1. Install OpenCV 3, Python and Pip (follow this tutorial http://www.pyimagesearch.com/2016/04/18/install-guide-raspberry-pi-3-raspbian-jessie-opencv-3/ ) preferably on a fresh Raspberry Pi OS. The shell commands (taken from the tutorial) are as follows:
sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake pkg-config 
sudo apt-get install libjpeg-dev libtiff5-dev libjasper-dev libpng12-dev 
sudo apt-get install libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libswscale-dev libv4l-dev 
sudo apt-get install libxvidcore-dev libx264-dev 
sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev 
sudo apt-get install libatlas-base-dev gfortran
sudo apt-get install python2.7-dev python3-dev 
cd ~
wget -O opencv.zip https://github.com/Itseez/opencv/archive/3.1.0.zip
unzip opencv.zip
wget -O opencv_contrib.zip https://github.com/Itseez/opencv_contrib/archive/3.1.0.zip
unzip opencv_contrib.zip
wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
sudo python get-pip.py
sudo pip install virtualenv virtualenvwrapper 
sudo rm -rf ~/.cache/pip 
echo -e "\n# virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper" >> ~/.profile
echo "export WORKON_HOME=$HOME/.virtualenvs" >> ~/.profile
echo "source /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh" >> ~/.profile 
source ~/.profile
mkvirtualenv cv -p python3
workon cv
pip install numpy
cd ~/opencv-3.1.0/
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RELEASE \
    -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local \
    -D INSTALL_PYTHON_EXAMPLES=ON \
    -D OPENCV_EXTRA_MODULES_PATH=~/opencv_contrib-3.1.0/modules \
    -D BUILD_EXAMPLES=ON ..
make -j4
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig
cd /usr/local/lib/python3.4/site-packages/
sudo mv cv2.cpython-34m.so cv2.so
cd ~/.virtualenvs/cv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/
ln -s /usr/local/lib/python3.4/site-packages/cv2.so cv2.so
rm -rf opencv-3.1.0 opencv_contrib-3.1.0

  1. Install NodeJS, following this tutorial (head directly to the "Install Node.js" section) Install NodeJS

  2. Install Pillow pip install pillow

  3. Install Yarn

MirrorOS Installation

  1. Clone the repository git clone https://github.com/wassgha/MirrorOS.git

  2. Cd to the repository folder (cd MirrorOS) then install dependencies npm install

  3. Run the project npm start

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