More of a Smart Display than a Magic Mirror..

[Camthalion]

I have been using MagicMirror2 for over 3 years now!

I have it installed on a monitor in my living room. It’s more of a Smart Display, as I call it, than a magic mirror. The idea was to temporarily install it as a smart monitor until I received the mirror and proceed to install it as a magic mirror.

While searching the internet to buy a two way mirror, I came across the DakBoard. I loved it immediately. Easy to install and quite beautiful in appearance. But I didn’t like the fact that I had to pay for the full features and that I couldn’t interfere with the appearance of my screen at all.

So I decided to work on MagicMirror2…

And you can see the result!

It took many stages to get it to the form it is in and to consider it good enough to share it with you!

I changed quite a bit in the code of the modules, css etc. to bring it up to my standards.
In many parts, the code it’s not right, but it works…

[sdetweil]

@Camthalion maybe you could submit the module changes.

can u categorize what u changed?

[Camthalion]

@sdetweil said in More of a Smart Display than a Magic Mirror..:

can u categorize what u changed?

I don’t really know how to submit the changes I did.
Most of them are in the main.css, clock and weather modules. I also used the custom css for the weather icons and custom fonts…

[sdetweil]

@Camthalion but what did u change and why?

[MajorC]

@Camthalion if you could share the way you get this wonderful weather running, that would be great.

Thank you,

Christian

[Camthalion]

@MajorC I’d be happy to share all the changes with you, I just don’t know how. Should I upload the changes to the file or just make it all a zip file?

[MajorC]

@Camthalion you could post the code, marked as code here in the forum or upload files with a hint where to look at.
Thank you

[sdetweil]

@Camthalion if you had made a fork of the mm project and other modules you could use git to commit them and upload back to your fork(s)

then someone could clone your fork instead of mm base, or you could submit a Pull Request to mm and have them consider your changes…

[Camthalion]

@sdetweil There is is!
https://github.com/Camthalion77/SmartScreen

[sdetweil]

@Camthalion cool… I will add this

do NOT change our files… every config change can be done thus config.js and custom.css

all your changes to main.css can be done in custom.css

css is a stack , searched from the top down

custom.css on top
module provided  css 
main.css

first found wins.

so you could put all you main.css changes in custom.css

and some you could change other variables (border size etc) as we have added those things in the last couple releases… (so you don’t have to make such drastic changes)

but very cool

thanks for the repo

[Camthalion]

@sdetweil :face_with_tongue: :smiling_face_with_halo: :upside-down_face:

[costascontis]

@Camthalion I use the same consept of the “smart” screen for 3-4 years now,displaying photos,news,our cameras and other stuff…
the next todo things are,touchscreen,and somehow displaying the info i ask from Google Assistnt.

[Camthalion]

@costascontis Very beautiful!
I have only one objection! Set the language to Greek throughout the program. Not just on the news! :)

[BKeyport]

@sdetweil First found wins? I thought it was the other way around… custom.css would load last and override previous. LIFO, effectively.

[sdetweil]

@BKeyport yes, first found wins

order loaded sets that up

[costascontis]

@Camthalion said in More of a Smart Display than a Magic Mirror..:

Set the language to Greek throughout the program. Not just on the news!

that is for a reason ,all tech in our home is english speaking to encourage our 6 yo to use english language.

[Camthalion]

@costascontis :smiling_face_with_sunglasses: Σωστός… (Cool…)