HPR3039: Making a Raspberry Pi status display

Introduction

I have had a project on my To Do list for a while: to make a status display from a Raspberry Pi. My vision was to show the state of various things including some HPR stuff, and I had imagined setting up a Pi with a monitor and controlling it over SSH.

I started on the project over the Christmas period 2019. I have a Raspberry Pi 3A+, which is a sort of souped-up Pi Zero, which I bought on a whim and hadn’t found a use for (Yannick reviewed this RPi model in show 2711). I also had an old square Dell monitor from about 15 years ago which still worked (at least to begin with).

I had imagined I’d write some software of my own with a web front end which ran various tasks to monitor things.

However, in my researches I came across MagicMirror² which I thought I might be able to use instead of writing my own thing.

Long notes

I have provided detailed notes as usual for this episode, and these can be viewed here.

Links

• JavaScript programming language:
  • Wikipedia entry
• Node.js JavaScript runtime environment:
  • Website
  • Wikipedia entry
• Electron software framework:
  • Website
  • Wikipedia entry
• MagicMirror²:
  • GitHub page
  • Website
  • List of third-party modules
• Resources:
  • Example files:
    • config.js
    • custom.css

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