I setup Magic Mirror on a PI4 that is used as a display panel on my desk. I have an mqtt server on the PI that operates various devices on my desk. The PI drives a 7" cheap screen that is on during the day. I use Magic Mirror to display various bits of information I want to monitor. Linkedin count for business, drive free space on cloud servers etc sent to MM via mqtt channel updates. The mqtt server will manage power up/power down of the desk. IMG_5307.JPG [image: 1745205445150-img_5308.jpg] [image: 1745205449531-img_5309.jpg] [image: 1745205452733-img_5310.jpg]

@sdetweil see my replies in your other topic

Large TV in my home office. clock MMM-OpenWeatherForecast MMM-AutoDimmer MMM-RAIN-MAP newsfeed MMM-GoogleCalendar MMM-MyStandings [image: 1744837282977-7e6ae45e-e850-4e82-883b-d6e14afcb2f5-mm.gif]

@smegbadger awesome!

I made this neat pet adoption frame as a birthday gift for some friends. Thanks everyone for the help! [image: 1744579374084-1000008899-resized.jpg] [image: 1744579374587-1000008898-resized.jpg]

Hi @tjat just found your setup and would start working on building this for my family. Thanks for sharing. Hopefuly I can have something running soon to share. 🙏🏾

Hi @Snille just found Magic Mirror project online and I’m about to get started to build a family dashboard similar to https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/18011/touchscreen-family-dashboard but interested in your design of having profiles for the members of the family so I can change what is shown on the display. I’m just getting started today to start the development. I’ll probably reach out with some questions. If you have any suggestions on how I should do the initial setup and start my build let me know. I’m probably going to use a monitor similar to the one from the link of the family dashboard ASUS 24" 1080P Multi-Touch Monitor (BE24ECSBT).

@Chloe282 I live in California, I’ll check if that company sells around here. Thank you!

@QuackingPlums impressive, thank you! I am currently using calendarExt2 with satisfaction, but I will try calendarExt3 during the spring and test it. Take car and one more time, congrats for your work.

@cpcode: Thanks…that did help indeed. I thought that CPUUsage would be displayed by default. I really only needed to set it as true…unfortunately now it only displays either 100 or 50% while htop only measures a few % for each core…CPU Temp displays thanks to your command….and while volume usage should not matter at all it only shows NaN…well…as it is not a productive system in any case and just a fun project i will deal with that as I increase my knowledge :-)

Family calendar, went for a custom framed screen as opposed to a mirror surface, may at a mirror surface later. [image: 1739821121311-img_0811-1.jpeg] Hardware Hardware is a Pi Zero 2W with a cheap portable monitor (Firebat). MM Configuration Modules is a simple set up of a CalendarExt3 with the default weather and time pulling five ics calendars from google (a calendar for each person plus a shared one). OS Used the MagicMirrorOS for the build, had some intermittent issues as noted in a troubleshooting thread that @KARSTEN13 and @SDETWEIL gave some good pointers on so could put in a workaround. Server Side On the google side, have written two Google Scripts to transform the calendar entries a little. Script 1 Events are prefixed by “[CalendarName]” so clear which calendar the event belongs to without colour coding. Script 2 Also a script that takes a calendar and copies the events to another, optionally padding the times for travel times (hardcoded) and rewriting the the title so that the original time is included. This allows me to consolidate several calendars into one. End result is (for example) my calendar for display (SW), has copied into two ics feeds, one of any gym classes I have booked (padded with travel time) and one from Tripit unpadded. Similar with my wife’s calendar with her gym bookings.

Added Smart Oil Gauge module I built - uses the Smart Oil API ($) - still some fine tuning to work on and building up a dataset but the overall module seems to be working well. [image: 1738549487484-screenshot-from-2025-02-02-21-20-35.png]

Good evening, all. As promised a status update regarding my activities with my signage board. After several brain distorsions with the software part (you may have seen my dumb questions) I also spent some time in the hardware part. I will place the monitor in a wooden frame (not ready, yet) and use a passepartout for design purposes. To do so I’ve designed [image: 1738510459685-passepartoutframesketch.png] a frame for the mirror, print this in pieces (PETG HF) [image: 1738510697089-passpartoutframe_parts.jpg] and assembled this to one connected piece (glued) [image: 1738510882718-passepartoutframe_assembled.jpg] Wooden strips will be placed on the outer side (therefore the drill holes) to correspont with the wooden frame. The slot on the bottom left side is for eventually using the monitor buttons (through the “final” (paper) passepartout which will be placed on top of the plastic frame. So far a little bit progress. Will keep you posted. Regards, Ralf

@cyclonej Congratulations!!

@gerbenz said in Help with calendar: i have in the calendar conifg: useSymbol: false, butt then i gett a dott at the beginning of the event. is it possible to remove it? yes, some css setting and i have six calendars with different collors and that works. but hole day events don’t color. css setting They have black text with white border around it. i want the color that is corrosponding with the right calendar. css setting I don’t know all the possible css settings for this module. the author has made it quite flexible via css… but like all decent manuals/readme, he provides a reference (this module has these things) , “application” of the things takes critical thinking and exploration. one thing to help learn/make progress is to use the browser developer window, elements tab to userstand/test css changes on the live page see the second link in my signature below

@sdetweil right!? my mom actually ordered a tv [unbeknownst to me] and sent it to my house and my front door camera notified me and i was like…i have no memory of ordering a new display…😂

@MZ-BER Van u share the config file? I’m new and try to learn.

@sdetweil Thank you. I didn’t know this. I will have a look later…

@svenpisa Min Sven, ich habe mir dieses Thema “MagicMirror” zum neuen Projekt gemacht, daher vielen Dank für deine Vorlagen, die sind echt MEGA! Leider funktionieren die Wettermodule nicht. Hast du mittlerweile schon eine neue config.js, die du mir zur Verfügung stellen kannst, damit ich darauf aufbauen kann? Viele Grüße von der Ostsee Marc moderator english translation Min Sven, I have made this topic “MagicMirror” my new project, so thank you very much for your templates, they are really MEGA! Unfortunately the weather modules don’t work. Do you already have a new config.js that you can provide to me so that I can build on it? Many greetings from the Baltic Sea

I have been wanting to get started on a magic mirror setup for a few years now, I think this might be the inspiration I needed to create my own. Awesome job.