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Magic Mirror 7.4

Figure 7.5
MagicMirror

12. Install the software to your Raspberry Pi (curl -sL http://
magpi.cc/MirrorInstall | bash)
13. Personalize your MagicMirror by modifying config.js file. Some
modules are pre-installed, others can be added or modified; for ex-
ample, the weather module will, by default show nothing, because
you have to get an API key for openweather by first creating an
account at  OpenWweatherMap.org; api. If you live in Maribor as
one of the authors of this book does, you will also need to change
the city. Be careful not to exceed the number of API calls a day, as
only 1000 API calls are free.
14. Go to  magicmirror.builders for help or additional information.
This is the home site for the project with many useful links, up-
dates, and documentation. Another site that may interest you is
 forum.magicmirror.builders where the community for the Mag-
icMirror resides.Our MagicMirror does not use the so-called ‘two-
way material’, which is also used in police interview rooms and as
privacy screening. It was difficult to obtain at the time of build-
ing the project and we thought that the magic mirror sans mirror
also does the job of displaying important information quite well.
It took us the whole day to build it and, we admit, we ran out of

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