@vandam3b Thank you very much, it worked.

@raspberrypi9 only one i know of is twowaymirrors.com

https://www.twowaymirrors.com/

@raspberrypi9 i dont know. i have a 55in tv i wanted to cover, but its like $1500 to get it to texas not

@sdetweil
I went thru the steps on the guide yes I’ll try these tomorrow much appreciated!

@ufransa said in Help me to level up my Magic Mirror:

I´m triying to set it up on my windows but when I use this command it shows this error and I don´t understand the reason.

from the doc
https://docs.magicmirror.builders/getting-started/installation.html#other-operating-systems

you didn’t make the required changes or run the extra steps

@zylejas98 you most certainly can create your own web page, if you have the time . you will do all the same work the MagicMirror modules do today

decide on a display function, find a data provider,
get the data, design and format a display from the data, decide and implement a data refresh approach , figure out how to integrate multiple data displays, etc

MagicMirror will run just about anywhere
linux,windows,mac
its just an spp

while you are developing/composing, do it on a native machine. docker and mmos add too much extra complexity in my opinion

its a composable information panel

calendar in a list is easy, we supply the module that does that

wall cal type there are a couple which feed off the same calendar data

weather, stocks, bus/train times are available. some of the data services are becoming fee based. nothing we can do about it. if you did your own, same problem

use my install script for linux and mac, see https://github.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror_scripts

if you don’t like the config editing , try my MMM-Config module that generates a form
see https://github.com/sdetweil

i don’t provide module installation, but that is usually very easy. (see the 3rd party module list linked at the top of this forum) search is very good

consistent style, font and color will be a problem if you want that

@DarrenO-0 Ahh, gotcha. Yes, this is for two on the same system, which linux treats as one huge monitor.

@sdetweil I simplifed out the details on purpose… Trying to keep it simple, Stupid (KISS)

:)

@sdetweil Thank you, will do!

@rabbit83ka Thank you for getting the ball rolling!

@1eretoile Personne pour m’aider???

So I’m looking for something the can be a location and destination, and then keep updated when the next bus is arriving for that trip. I have found MMM-MyTransitTime, but it doesn’t seem to be active.

Is there anything else I could take a look at?

@raspberrypi9 typically one needs a small computer to fit in a case on the wall. there are quite a few SBC (single board computer) capable.

yes to your components list. and wherever you can find them in your budget. mirror glass is the most expensive component .

i have wanted to cover my 55 in tv mirror, but $1000 incl shipping is out of the budget for that .

touch yes. they make ir frames that go around non-touch, and send mouse cricks to the app.

note: very little is touch enabled.

oh, and you do get fingerprints…,

@KristjanESPERANTO since you got me curious, I looked into Wayland a bit.

So to answer your question again:

While Wayland is generally considered more efficient in general use scenarios, in a scenario where you want no window management, no window decoration and certainly no visual effects, that efficiency advantage would not only be negated, but turned into a disadvantage.

Also unlike X11, Wayland apparently cannot be started as a bare-metal service but always requires a compositor like Weston or Sway in the background which would actually not only result in a heavier premium in resource usage but would also require a more complex and error-prone setup.

Last but not least, wayland is far less use-case agnostic compared to X11. Like many modern software suites, it makes a lot of assumptions about how it is going to be used. Since many, if not most of these assumptions wouldn’t hold true in a scenario like the one we’re discussing here, using Wayland would carry a lot of the downsides of running MagicMirror on a full DE, in short, you’d be fighting against your framework instead of working with it.

In conclusion I can say from what I learned about Wayland so far, I definitely made the right choice with X11.

N.B. that are only the conclusions of a very brief look into Wayland on my part, so there may very well be ways to make it behave the way I want it to, but if they exist, they seem to be a lot less trivial and well-documented.

@Elizashahh i also didn’t add, you start a periodic timer (interval) to start fetching new data. then call
updateDom() when the data is ready to be used for the ui.

or start a one time timer, fetch data, call updateDom, then start another timer. this might cause a little drift in when you update.

i got the mirror up and running. it loads the desktop and then the Chromium browser.
how do i get a music player like PiCorePlayer installed via command line? or OR what player can i install on the smart mirror to connect to my LMS and then play music?
seems nobody has done such a thing…

@brentmatthews sorry, I don’t know… give it a try

I don’t know the workings of most modules…
I can help with getting the config data into the right places, or detect when config isn’t specified right…

@brentmatthews said in Recommend a Word of the Day module? (English):

This css is fun

lol… not many of us think that!.. (including me)
glad you are making progress

@WallysWellies good learning experience

Add them to the module, submit a pr
Then use custom.css to override to make them not show

@bugsounet thank you very much. i’m grateful