I have my MM running Amazon’s Alexa, as well, using this software. Running both seems to make the Alexa app a bit buggier, though

If you look around in the Show your Mirror category you will be able to find multiple people using foil and glass and see it for yourself. One thing to note is that a real glass mirror will also feel different. I am sure if the plastic mirror works and can’t recall if i have seen someone make one. You can most often buy the mirrors online, just go to any search engine and start searching :) then you can also maybe find a local retailer.

Thanks. Will read it and hope to get all right.

@Mykle1 Nice! I’ll figure it out.

I tried it with xampp and node.js (http-server) and got the initial page to be shown (please create a config) but once I create one, the site just shows a black background with no modules. Console says “moduleWrapper is NULL”. What’s the trick here? What do I need to run? ######## EDIT: Nevermind, what I was looking for was: node serveronly I thought that was for production/RasbPi only so I had not tried that. Thx

Look what i found on the largest AV and systems integration show in the world Integrated Systems Europe (ISE). must be pretty cool to see your idea taken over by the AV world! Anyone who wants to visit the ISE https://www.iseurope.org/ Just register with this code: 706976 it will give you a free pass to the ISE. no strings attached :grinning: link to register: https://registration.n200.com/survey/0hlzs6anfdarp [image: mm1.jpg] [image: MM2.jpg]

Perhaps these pictures will help you see what I mean from the description above. This first picture is of the box with the frame facing downwards. You can see the “lip” created by the frame going all the way around the edge of the box. The opening of the “lip” should be the same as the bezel of the monitor. This way you don’t see the bezel when you put the monitor in. The monitor is held in place by the “lip” and conceals the bezel at the same time. [image: 1486573778249-1edit-resized.jpg] The second picture is of the frame facing up with the box below. When you put your mirror in (first, from the box side) and your monitor on top of that (second, from the box side) they will both rest on the “lip” created by the frame. [image: 1486574201666-2edit-resized.jpg] It will then look like this from the box side. I simply used two “L” brackets to keep the monitor and mirror from falling back out of the box when you pick it up. You can just see them. One at the top of the picture in the middle and one at the bottom of the picture in the middle. [image: 1486574357553-5edit-resized.jpg] Mine looks like this when you hang it up. The little teddy bear hides the power cord at the bottom. [image: 1486574651814-new.jpg] Measure and cut precisely Good luck to you

@pugsly same here, I have a few others that would be great.

@dkoucky said in What are you compliments?: Does anyone have a copy of their weather based compliments? I’m using by default from README. If you have some more clever let me know or send a a PullRequest for update the README. config: { compliments: { day_sunny: [ 'Today is a sunny day', 'It\'s a beautiful day' ], snow: [ 'Snowball battle!' ], rain: [ 'Don\'t forget your umbrella' ] } }

Hi, read this. https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/1183/how-i-got-my-magic-mirror-working-on-a-raspberry-pi-0-zero

Hi All :) I am setting a ‘mirrorless’ mirror for my mother-in-law. It doesn’t actually need to be a mirror but I want it to just display useful reminders for her (doctors appointments etc). One thing I was wondering, with the demo config.js it has the complements in big letters at the bottom; rather than that, does the alert module produce large text like that? And can it get information from the calendar? I ask as it would be really useful for her to have the next calendar entry clearly shown so it is an easy and clear reminder of what she needs to do for that day. Is this something that is possible? Many thanks for any assistance!! Kelvin

Hi all, I’m currently working on a Digital Photo Frame. When looking for a good place to start I found this: https://benja.io It’s basically ARCH with only Electron running. Not only that, it’s fully Hardware accelerated! :) I thought, maybe the MagicMirror² can use this as a base instead of a Raspbian Jessie (Lite) installation as it is today. Maybe you guys already knew about this. But in case you didn’t I just wanted to let you know. :) I’m also building a MM of course. :) Best regards Erik

@ottobot - Good luck with yours. Everything I read, before actually buying the mirror, hinted towards a “rigid” mirror. I wasn’t even sure the 3mm was going to do the trick but I was happily surprised. It’s pretty much plexiglass with mirror capability, and yes, the price is reasonable.

I thought we can use in the glass of mounted glass to the speed-o-meter of bike!!! Share your thoughts, many one of us have power to execute it.

For the last 6 months I have been thinking of a reason to build a MM and I finally found it. Like so many other successful ventures I wanted to combine two of my passions. In this case those passions are tech and exercise. I would like to build a mirror that tracked my exercises via voice input. Ideally I would like to be able to say “start workout x” and have the list of exerces/metrics come up on the screen. I would then tick them off one by one with voice commands. This would obviously be profile-driven, ideally using a database. In the last few weeks I have gained a fair amount of knowledge in Amazon developer tools and I would like to stay on that trajectory. I am looking for a place to jump in - any advice that you could provide would be GREATLY appreciated. I am first an foremost trying to find the framework that suits my needs. Is MM2 that framework? Something else? I look forward to being an active member of the community in the future. MUST HAVE Voice-activated commands (presumeably via stand-alone alexa device) The ability to refresh / build the screen via voice commands. I’ve seen this done in a few places so I know it is possible Database capabilities. Once again, I want this to be profile driven without having to update code NICE TO HAVE The ability to have Alexa turn my tv on/off. I haven’t purchased a monitor yet, nor have I spent much time researching this one.

@washichi Interesting idea for the module. And glancing at your code you seem to be on the right track. I may be not understanding what you trying Sublime Text to do. It’s just a text editor with ability to add various packages on top of it. It’s not a full blown IDE. I don’t believe that you can compile or preview the JavaScript module directly in Sublime. My general workflow for module creation is something like this: Create MMM-mymodule directory inside MagicMirror/modules Open MagicMirror directory in sublime Add barebones config for the module to modules array in config.js, for example: { module: "MMM-mymodule", position: "bottom_right", config : { } }, Start node serveronly and point my Chrome with dev tools open to the http://localhost:8080 Create/edit MagicMirror/modules/MMM-mymodule/MMM-mymodule.js, save it. (or other files that you need for the module) Refresh the browser to pickup my changes, debug etc. Repeat steps 5-6 as I go along. If adding/editing node_helper.js repeat steps 4-6 since node needs to pickup that file. Some of restarts/refreshes can be automated on file save with different tools, but I’m not going to get into that right now.

@lolobyte yeah but all that apps and programs,… it´s more like a info screen than a mirror ;)

Ok, sounds interesting. Can the Face-Recognitiontool and the MMAL-Motion share the camera? If I try to use the Camera with “raspistill” while the Face-Recog-Module is enable, I get an Error.

@fersev Not even sure what that is :) A dimmer switch?

Nice write up and cover story. Saw it over the weekend. Congrats!