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  Mirror Film Directly on Monitor?
  monitor mirror film • • MwMagicMirror  

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  It did work fine for the monitor I am using, right up to the point where I let the raspberry pi touch the metal portion of the back of the screen and shorted it (the reaspberry pi) out. What I did learn is the area has to be clean as an operating room when you are cleaning the screen before you add the film or you for sure will get a crappy result. MW
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  Amazon Alexa confusion...
  • fuudge  

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  Hey guys, I’ve just started using Amazon Alexa on my magic mirror pi and I’m a little bit confused with different options available. Currently, I’ve set up Alexa using this guide: https://developer.amazon.com/docs/alexa-voice-service/set-up-raspberry-pi.html This gives me a script to run a “sample app” which runs and listens to my voice commands in the background separately from my magic mirror app. To my understanding, this is just an example for developers to get started and to build their own Alexa devices, but should be OK to use for my personal magic mirror long term? Also, there are different options like AlexaPi client or using Alexa magic mirror module. Aside from magic mirror integration (in case of Alexa MM modules), what are benefits of using those over the above sample app? Are there differences to underlying software?
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  Google home any way to get more features
  • ScotsFrog  

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  “Google Assistant SDK for device” is not for Alternative to Google Home itself. Some features are limited or blocked or not implemented yet. It’s main purpose is not making Google Home but giving feature for vocal assistant environment to your device.
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  has anyone used any of the charting tools, like chartjs?
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  @lavolp3 i do not… there are tons of options, which I guess you would expect.
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  What can YOUR mirror do?
  • Mykle1  

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  animations looks cool but for my next project i am looking something like “touch” based animations.I am thinking about a coffee table for our living room with a 50" touch screen powered from an old “decapitated” laptop that can show MM plus my Habpanel dashboard of my Openhab home system…Any ideas?
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  Hello , my english is not good ....
  • Le Belge  

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  je me permet de deterrer j’ai tenté l’install de magic mirror2 cet aprem j’ai un rpi3B+neuf, j’ai mis le raspbian complet dessus j’ai lancé l’install auto, ça a bien été jusqu’à : installing dependencies… bash: ligne112: npm: commande introuvable unable to install dependencies! Bref la loose un conseil ?
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  Node Serveronly - Internet Connection
  • m-tarek  

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  @m-tarek - Technically, only the Pi needs a connection out to the Internet in order to display the modules correctly. Your devices behind your firewall/gateway/router will need to be able to see the Pi in order to display the interface. (Be sure to carefully configure your IP whitelist) We have a similar setup in my office for the superwide mirror in the lobby. The gateway has a bypass set up for the Pi running one of the Magic Mirror installations (the superwide runs two Magic Mirror installations). Everything behind the gateway is forced to our capture portal except the Pi, which is allowed to bypass the gateway and get an internet connection. Anyone behind the gateway can see the data displayed upon the Pi without having an internet connection yet. There is some other trickery that we do that isn’t relevant here.
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  IR frame calibration
  • trich1  

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  @trich1 Yes. You need to install WinScroll. This program limits miuse/pointer movement to a specific area of the frame.
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  Surfbars a second use for the RaspberryPi
  • ABusche  

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  Hey folks, I build my mirror some moth ago and I’m very happy with it so far, while I was surfing the internet i stumbled about Surfbars. These are websites that surf autonomous and while they surf you earn money. Because we are using a Raspberry pi for the magic mirror, it came to my mind that I let some of these websites run in the background. I’m still in trying out different setups. Following are some examples.When I break any rules with this post I apologies but I think this could be interesting for some of you. PS: These are all my referral links. Edit: you can expect 5$ per site per Month. spoiler
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  Change images slides by buttons or by scheduled events
  mirror modules won’t load imageslideshow carousel • • Agustin  

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  Hi everybody, I have an issue that I don’t realize how to solve it: My mirror has several modules, but particularly has MMM-ImageSlideshow to show images in an iterative way. Everything works fine, but now, I need to pass the images shown by ImageSlides with a button action (show previous or next image). At first, I tried to instance some ImageSlides modules (each module showing only one picture) and I tried to manage the visualization of each module with MMM-Carousel without success, because all instances of ImageSlides were shown in the mirror at the same time (not only one at time). So, I researched in the 3rd-party-modules but I didn’t find anything that can fit to my requirement. In summary, I’m looking for some way to pass images (previous and next) by a button action. I would be very nice to me if some of you have an idea how to do this. Also, if someone want to share a config file as an example I would be very grateful. Thank you very much. Regards! Agustin.
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  syncing PRIVATE Calenders
  • showbizkid  

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  Thanks sdewell! Will stop trying then.
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  The oldest to make a Magic Mirror?
  • Mykle1  

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  I’m born november 1949, so I am 69.
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  MagicMirror voice control for MMM-Carousel
  • lamachine  

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  @lamachine said in MagicMirror voice control for MMM-Carousel: i It appears carousel may not be the best choice for this. I am now trying with MMM-Remote-Control.
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  Setting up sleep schedule on laptop question
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  Hi! I currently have Raspbian Desktop installed on an old Thinkpad x41 tablet in which it runs MagicMirror. Everything is mostly set and ready to go before I mount the laptop on to my wall. The only thing left is to somehow set a sleep schedule. I was wondering what would be the best way to accomplish this? I read that people use cron jobs to accomplish this task, but I have a feeling it only works on RasPi’s attached to an external display. Is there any way I can create a cron job to put my laptop in a sleep or suspend state? If that isn’t possible is there any way turn off the LCD display? The laptop will always will be plugged into an outlet. The specs are as listed: Architecture: i686 CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit Byte Order: Little Endian CPU(s): 1 On-line CPU(s) list: 0 Thread(s) per core: 1 Core(s) per socket: 1 Socket(s): 1 Vendor ID: GenuineIntel CPU family: 6 Model: 13 Model name: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.50GHz Stepping: 8 CPU MHz: 600.000 CPU max MHz: 1500.0000 CPU min MHz: 600.0000 BogoMIPS: 1197.04 Flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss tm pbe nx bts est tm2
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  noob question.
  • dCon0ne  

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  Could be something else. usually for me, a black screen appears when I forgot to run the ‘npm i’ on a module somewhere…
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  Start or not...?
  • Egnos  

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  @egnos I copy the “MMM-AssistantMk2” folder to the new “modules” folder. I can not guarantee your copied folder might work because it is not “built/compiled” on new machine.
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  Having some issues connecting to xinit with a zero w, any help would be appreciated.
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  Where are the promised logs? If you want help you need to include more information
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  MagicMirror is covered on Golem
  • yawns  

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  @yawns my google stream gave me the same article on top of the stream. Wondering why…
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  Building the frame
  • anhanyoung  

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  I’m not very good with wood working. Does anyone have a good frame build?
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  Google Assistant Slow Response Time
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  I recently setup mt Raspberry Pi to run Google Assistant in the background with my Magic Mirror. I was curious if anyone has found a way to speed up the response time of the Assistant? I have a Google Home Mini and that responds very promptly. Any luck with speeding things up?