I use the following cron jobs for sleep at 11pm and wake at 6am.

0 23 * * * /opt/vc/bin/tvservice -o
0 6 * * * /opt/vc/bin/tvservice -p

Right now I’m running everything separately (MM2 and OpenHab) on 2 separate RP3s. I’m just wondering if I can run OpenHab (running most of the things in my house) and Magic Mirror 2 on the same RPi3 without any performance issues? I would require this to be pretty stable and the family uses OpenHab and not being techy wouldnt be very impressed if it suddenly went down lol. Not sure my wife would know where to start fixing things.

I figure the MM is always on (using a PIR sensor for the screen) and if it has extra bandwidth to run OpenHab might as well do them on the same board that way I can free up the other Pi. I also just got a new Pi Zero specifically for running the MM but then I can also use this for something else.

I’ve been looking around but havent found much on the topic and I can’t say that I’m an expert on Linux resourcing etc…

I have some fairly quick css transform animations (using keyframes) in one of my modules, when rendering on the Pi it’s really slow and not at all as smooth as it should be.

Is there something I can do to address this, low fps, problem or is it what it is?

This popped up on my twitter feed: https://twitter.com/internetofshit/status/817533468733120512

It looks awfully familiar, right? So where else have you seen the concept of the magic mirror, but yet not running @MichMich framework?

Just follow the tutorial and you’ll be fine

@zeldakong64

the light transmission from the “back” (most mirrors have one side that has more reflection than the other) should be around 20% to get enough light through when the room the mirror is placed in is bright, you might go even higher if the mirror is out in daylight.

The higher transmission of light the more you will see of the monitor itself, even more so when the light in the room gets dimmer. The backlight of monitors will def shine through more the higher percentage you go.

I have a mirror with 3% light transmission, it works fine in a room with no daylight and just a few light sources.
big plus is that the backlight doesn’t show until the room is entirely pitch black.
But! I would suggest a mirror with 12-20% light transmission for most placements.

Panic Software recently announced that they are discontinuing StatusBoard, a simple but popular iOS app for iPads connected to a large display:

Blog post:
https://panic.com/blog/the-future-of-status-board/

It’s pretty similar to MagicMirror2 in many respects. If you point StatusBoard to .json sources, it will format the data in nice ways. I hope someone out there looks into porting the graphs module. It would be really cool to have on MagicMirror2.

@monkepinay I’m in the middle of my build, so no results yet, only thing that is an issue, or may be an issue, is that the glass I ordered lets thru to little light, so it might be hard to see the display in daylight

My mirror is letting 3% of the light thru, I’ve later, after reading more seen that 12-20% is more optimal for magicmirror-use.

Explain to her what you’re trying to do… she’ll understand and still love it! 🙂

https://www.facebook.com/notes/mark-zuckerberg/building-jarvis/10154361492931634?hc_location=ufi

Thoughts?

This does not seem to be a MM module, so I will move this topic. Please add a description what this does.

Hi,

I want to load a certain url to perform an action, but I do not want to show that page. What would be the best way to implement this? It should work within the Modules.

http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:port/EN/status.html?p0=playlist&p1=jump&p2=0&start=0&player=00%3A00%3A00%3A00%3A00%3A01

@Beh 2015?

Damm your right, I found the setting: Delay Image Loading - If enabled, images in topics will not load until they are scrolled into view.
Thanks man

Looks like twowaymirror.com is having a year-end clearance for their larger fixed-dimension Smart Mirrors.

http://www.twowaymirrors.com/smart-mirror/

I have no use for it but might interest a few folks here.

twowaymirrors

https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/1120/mac-app-launcher-for-my-mm

Hey,

this is a realy cool project.

But i find nothing about how it works… After some hours, i found out its just a website running in a browser.

But why is this not explaint in the indrodution?

Or maybe a demo(mirror)website. This would be cool.

A small explanation that the mirror programm works like a website hostet on the raspberry. And i can setup and develop it on my laptop.

What you think about this?

Here https://www.facebook.com/techinsider/videos/618467261684967/

Looks pretty good as i think!

Here is the site of the guy http://www.rafaeldymek.com/

We should invite him to work on this great project here, too! 😃