@eddieLMD sadly the Alexa software s no more… Amazon has killed that what do you mean ‘do emails’? also some home apps i have for heating and lighting what are these, do you want to CONTROL those or see what they are doing? MM is really an output only medium, intended as an information panel.

@sdetweil awesome!

@Hilt - great thanks for reply- reckon I’ll have to the same

@Niggich I think @sdetweil is correct that MMM-RemoteControl is not related to Touch. I can try it in a bit to confirm. I do have a question on the MMM-Touch module though that I’m hoping one of you or anyone for that matter can answer. When using the touch module, does it allow touch/swipe across the entire screen or just within the module that is loaded on the screen itself?

@dathbe Thank you! I’m still learning all of this. I appreciate your help!

@com1cedric Looks great so far. For the weather module, maybe check out MMM-WeatherChart or MMM-OpenWeatherForecast — they offer more visual options without needing heavy node.js work. Also, adding a physical shutdown button is a smart move for reliability. Keep us posted on the frame build!

@tjat I recomment you to take a look at my https://github.com/PierreGode/MMM-Chores ( it supports touch )

There is a bit of a story here. A friend was given about 10 of these Surface Pro 4s from work, we determined 8 worked and he had 8 working chargers, so we spent an evening with a few beers and installed Windows 10 on all 8. He gave me 2 of them, one with “some” battery and one that would only work plugged in. I used the one with battery for a while but it didn’t last long so had limited usefulness, I looked up changing the battery and decided it wasn’t worth spending £40 on a battery, if changing it could ruin the device Then I randomly saw a video about installing Linux on one of these, due to Microsoft end of life notice, out of the drawer it came and Ubuntu installed with the Surface kernel, a fun process but once again held back by the battery life. My intended MM project is a 65" boardroom screen in the new office, displaying MM when the screen is otherwise not in use, but the office move is delayed due to issues with the refurb, so my office mirror is currently on a 27" monitor, wedged vertical on my desk While looking for another project I found the Surface and thought it would make a good mirror, initially I just used a full screen browser then decided a native install would make this “portable” with a wifi connection and likely needing to be plugged in, but I can set it up where I am working, It has touch screen access to the calendar and the displays are truly stunning So there you have it, why I am using a Surface Pro, running Linux as a mirror. [image: 1748245568665-page-1-resized.jpg] First page uses Calendar EXT3 and Agender EXT3 plus I wrote my own news module with short and long headlines because I have a lot of news sources [image: 1748245733672-page-2-resized.jpg] Second page (other than clock and weather) are all modules I wrote, making API calls to my PV array and various bits of info from the UK grid The screens are not easy to photograph, but they are not reflective in real use

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 @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!

@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!!