@RyanRoyster - Short answer: It’s what you see on your mirror, but in your web browser.
Long answer: The Magic Mirror consists of about three main parts. There’s a web application that runs in Node.js, a display app called Electron that displays the contents of the web app, and a monitoring app called PM2 that starts everything automatically and restarts it if it crashes.
Because it’s a web app, it works like a web server. When you look at your mirror, you’re essentially seeing Electron acting like a web browser pointed to a web server. They just happen to be on the same machine. What we’re trying to get set up for you is to use your regular web browser (Edge, Chrome, Firefox, Safari or whatever) to do the same task as Electron: display what the web server is serving up.
Let’s get you browsing
To answer your other question about the IP address: Assuming that you’re working on your mirror’s RasPi itself, you can find the ip address by opening up a terminal window and typing ifconfig. You’ll get a bunch of stuff back, but what you’re looking for will be like this:
wlan0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 10.0.0.15 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 10.0.0.255
Quick interpretation: wlan0 = wireless adapter. If you’re connected via WiFi, this is where you wish to look. inet 10.0.0.15 this is your IP address.
Okay, that said, edit your config.js and at the top of the file, find this section:
var config = {
address: "0.0.0.0", < Make it read thusly
port: 8080,
ipWhitelist: [], < likewise
Save your file. On your computer, on the same WiFi network, open your web browser and point it at the IP address you grabbed earlier. Remember to add the port number! In my case, http://10.0.0.15:8080
Your web browser should show you your MM interface.
