MagicMirror is a fantastic information kiosk designed to be run on a monitor mounted behind a mirror. It can display weather, news headlines, photos, music that’s playing, calendars, to do lists, workout progress, etc. It is also very useful as MagicMirror without the Mirror as Caroline Dunn explains in her excellent installation tutorials. (Caroline has a video series on Managing Multiple Echos that looks interesting.) Here’s my current implementation:

MagicMirror is a GitHub project with excellent documation. There are many modules that can be added depending on the information you want to display. It runs on Linux and is an excellent candidate for a Raspberry Pi. It can also be run as a website. Then it can be displayed on a tablet using a web browser. I plan to use it on a Raspberry Pi configured as a full screen kiosk alternating between MagicMirror and a Home Assistant information screen similar to this one:

This idea called for a ProxMox VM with a lite version of Linux desktop to run MagicMirror as a webserver. I chose Linux Lite using this video tutorial. It’s a lite version of Ubuntu designed for beginners.