My current MagicMirror is an old 40" LCD TV. It’s positioned in area that get a lot of light and is quite hard to read. I am considering rebuilding it with something might brighter. What TV would recommend? Something around 55" would be fantastic.

@ZiggidyZ That could be a good unit… I’d personally take it off the stand if you’re going to put it in an enclosure, and use a low profile vesa mount like this. You could also build up like a mirror project, just use a clear piece of front material in lieu of a 2 way mirror.

Anyone got any recommendations for fonts for E-ink screens? Especially with smaller font sizes. Running Magic Mirror and Puppeteer to scrape an image to push to a Waveshare 7.5 two colour. No judgements on the printed frame, got some new filament coming in, but couldn’t wait to see it all fit together! Frame is a modified version of this to suit a Pi 3B+ [image: 1703998208351-412470296_191379517336376_6114093210056513940_n.jpg] [image: 1703998210085-411810110_855402776587046_4412917443766054722_n.jpg]

@jens19720 Haben Sie Module installiert, die das Display ausschalten, wenn nicht beschäftigt ist oder niemand in der Nähe ist? PIR oder so ähnlich?

@Michelle-H2020 I never could get the motion sensing to work as well as I’d like. My solution at night is as others mentioned: a cron job to shut down and then a smart outlet to cut power 5 min later. The smart outlet turns on at 5:45AM so my MM is up and running when I wake up. I also implemented a screensaver to run after a period of inactivity to prevent screen burn-in.

@Kelemvor git is a terminal command not a nodejs command. just open a cmd.exe window

@1a2a3a - One of the modules that I maintain is MMM-WeatherBackground. It will put a background image on your mirror and change it up according to what your weather app forecasts. I find that the key feature is the ability to set the transparency of the background image. That way you can adjust how much of the background image is present vs the reflection that you see.

Re: MMM-xiaomi - Temperature and Humidity from your smarthome Hey, it seems that the Aqara M2 Hub should work with this module. Has anyone tested this or is using it in the moment? I only want to display multiple Aqara temperature sensors on my MagicMirror without the need to install Home Assistant. Recently, I’ve been trying to read data from a BME280 sensor connected to an ESP32. However, the ESP´s are crashing all the time and I can´t identify the error. I’m looking for a reliable solution that just works. And I guess the fact that these Sensors communicate with Zigbee is also a better solution

@pietervanharen typically there are only 3 wires power (pin 6) ground (pin5) signal (pin 4) so, power and ground should be easy, and picking an available gpio port should also be easy and if you want to.program change it’s behavior the you would connect pins 1 and 2 [image: 1699721254471-screenshot_20231111_104643_chrome.jpg]

@bhepler said in Magic Mirror Mirror/Foil Question: @Syosse - In my experience, the light transmission from film is very different than a one-way mirror glass. The film is a compromise for those on a budget. The film will not let as much light through from the monitor as a purchased piece of mirror glass. In my case, the film lets in about 30% of the monitor’s display and the mirror glass lets 50% through. Ok, now it’s clear, thank you very much. I’ve now ordered a mirror glass.

@ryus see https://github.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror_scripts

Hi there! use the desktop version and it works ok! thanks for your comments!

Nice! I think the real-time clock is a useful new feature for the MM. With that we should be able to wake up the Raspberry Pi automatically without any external device.

@mmcghee cool… also note that the base doesn’t provide any touch support in any module, as they are designed for output only… you might want to look at this topic https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/18011/touchscreen-family-dashboard

hello guys, I have two completely new mirrors in the format 380x580mm (1x with polished edges, 1x without polished edges) available immediately (so completely without any waiting times). Is anyone interested? please contact me via private message 🙂

Hi, I have same issue on my raspberry. Have you find how fix it ?

@mr-leahy sure… MM also runs on windows too

@Max-0 What you mean is “powering on a Raspberry PI by touch without any additional device”, NO. What you mean is “powering on a Display(previously powered off) by touch without any additional device”, Possible or not by the kind of the touch-sensor. Built-In touch sensor in a display would not be possible, but an external touch-frame connected to Raspberry Pi could be used to give signals for that control to Raspberry Pi. What you mean is “Waking on a Display(previously slept/hibernated) by touch without any additional device”, YES. But your display('s control board) should support that kind of feature.

@Steuber hi, first thing you have to decided what kind of screen you want to use. This is important because the esp module will have serious problems with big screens, anithing in color over 6 inches it will be pretty much impossible to drive with an esp8266 module because the small ram available.

@sdetweil said in SSD vs Old School Spinning Platter: @ankonaskiff17 so. ssd technology is write once memory. once that bit is written, it cannot be written again. Uh, no. The cells that contain the bits do wear out over time, calculated in Total Bytes Written, but they are re-writeable. Writing and rewriting those bits causes wear. And the SSD has some overhead to let you maintain the listed capacity over time. But it is a read/write technology. There are some write-once SSDs on the market, but you have to specifically purchase them. The few that I found are Windows-only. How Solid State Drives Work