@animeman0 there’s too many variables to give you an answer as it depends on there following: is there an angle difference between the monitor and glass across the whole monitor space? What is the lighting like in the area? Where is the lighting in the area? What about natural light in the area? The only wait to know for certain is for you to try it, can you try it without removing the protective film?

The magic mirror is find when I use it with TV monitor through hdmi cable. But when I use vga monitor to make the real mirror and I use hdmi-vga cable. The screen turn on and I can see the desktop. When it start mm, I can see it works for a few seconds, after that the screen is black and the power supply led turn off and on continuosly. Please help me solve this.

@cowboysdude https://letyshops.com/r/aliexpress-ww-97c9f222e4cc I got it from this seller on AliExpress as I found it to be the cheapest

I have a similar setup. Here is a link to my thread: https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/14048/borderless-bathroom-mirror?_=1630345450317

@macg I’ve got a version of Option 1. I used a 3-port extension cord and used a child safety cover as a ‘mount’ for the cord. Then there are two outlets on one side - one for the monitor PS and one for the Pi4 PS (which is an Anker 5V/3A wall wart type).[image: 1629483152033-screen-shot-2021-08-20-at-1.08.25-pm.png]

Hello, I’m creating a photo mirror, I’ve been doing some research on the type of mirror to use, I found the reference Pilkington miroview but I don’t know what opacity to choose? Is 50/50 best for this type of project?

@sdetweil Weird. I switched back to a Pi3 and it’s working fine now. Connected it with a HDMI<>HDMI cable to the HDMI Arc port on the TV. The TV instantly popped up with a CEC connected Raspberry. Left it for over a night and just now it perfectly started.

@bman said in Any cheap TVs with CEC?: @schmaniel Hey, today I had the luck of finding a TV like the on you looking for. I bought a LG model nr. 32LG2100 for €40 secondhand in mint condition. I looked it up and it has CEC, but it’s called Simplink for LG. Hope this helps. Since I have built my frame already, this TV would be a bit too big, but I found a solution for it now. I got a Smart Plug and the TV automatically boots up, when it lost power and gains it back :)

@solelo I will. But at the moment it’s turned sideways on a bed ;) The screen res. of this monitor is 1920x1080 which is the same as the monitor i have so there is no extra space. It’s just that my parents can read it :P When all is finished and i like it, it might swap it for a 4K monitor to add some more features into it.

@zarquan So a while back I got an LCD Controller Board in Hope of saving a screen from my old iMac. It turned out that I ordered the wrong one, and just didn’t return it. Fast-Forward a couple months when I realized that I have an old laptop that wasn’t worth upgrading. So today, I took the laptop apart and salvaged as much as possible including the screen. I hooked it up to my LCD Board and it partially works. There are lines at the Right side and it shows the top of the screen again at the bottom. I flipped the LVDS Cable and it just appeared as a white screen. Please Help!

@sdetweil yes that’s right

@Marcelino looking at this again, I see the Cortex-M4 processor, which does not have Linux support due to lack of memory management. almost 20 years ago (2002), there was cuLinux which tried to squeeze into the tiny space. but it has been abandoned since around 2008. I didn’t get that this was an all in one type unit.

@sdetweil said in Dual Monitor with Raspberry Pi official display slope game: @justaguywithamm MM will display the same stuff on both monitors, and no sharing/page flipping differently so if u have 3 pages, then u have the same 3 pages on each monitor. you ‘could’ run multiple instances of MM on the same machine from different folders MagicMirror1 on large monitor and MagicMirror2 on smaller monitor two different config.js , and custom.css ASSUMING you can have two monitors on the same machine… I have two HMDI connected monitors on my Pi4 and it works great also using chrome as the browser (instead of electron) you can use local (on the same system as the browser) css to customize the experience this is like for daughter/son showing MM on their own computers… one can have one color scheme and another a different one and MagicMirror doesn’t know https://www.trysmudford.com/blog/chrome-local-overrides/ but, if they are coming from the same system and connected to the same system then this doesn’t help. i got it, thank you for the explanation.

@jjhdtv the film should be on the back of the glass, not front. so would never be touched

Hello all. I’m new here, first post. I have been wanting to make a magic mirror, most likely a photobooth to start. However, I quickly became discourage with the high cost of the glass. (say for a 40" tv) Just curious if anyone has considered or attempted to use the off the shelf smart bathroom mirrors (sold on ebay and amazon) and repurpose the two way glass for a magic mirror project? (adding digitizer and large monitor) The price seems cheap ($300 for 47x23" ) and free shipping. I’m assuming the whole area of glass on these units is transparent. It is late, and I needed to bounce the idea off of those who may have been down this road. thanks,

Hi all, I successfully installed my magic mirror a long time ago. Unfortunately - probably due to cleaning - there are some mini scratches now at some spots on the glass surface (although I used a microfiber cloth). They are only visible when using bright backgounds on the laptop LED screen which is attached behind the mirror glass. Do you have any idea - apart from using dark backgrounds - how to solve these issues? Is there any protective foil for example which can be attached to the glass surface, to hide the scratches and to protect the screen? Any experience with scratches? Thanks! Best regards!

@swvalenti Here’s my weather page from Wunderground https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/KNYELMIR44/graph/2021-07-24/2021-07-24/daily

@stoffbeuteluwe do you have pics of your mirror? I have a 46" tv too that I’ve been thinking about using. Or even getting a cheap 55" to use in portrait mode also.

@lavolp3 Ciao, I think I will try the one recommended in this tutorial first, it all arrived yesterday, this afternoon I start the tests (… and the swearing …: -) …), my hands are big and my sight it’s not much … I will also try the css code to increase the brightness of the characters. I am attaching some photos on the state of the work, I would say that I am at a good point, too bad for the infrared pir that stole some time, if I knew that there was this tutorial I passed directly to the doppler sensors … That’s okay, art that comes in :-) [image: 1625647959415-img_20210625_183348.jpg] [image: 1625647999029-img_20210625_183457.jpg]

@stalker401 Flush would be perfect but you can go bigger. You would probably notice a slight border effect. My mirror is considerably bigger than the screen and you can really notice the screen through the mirror. Upgrade due…