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Hilt

Hi all

Built our first Magic Mirror in 2019. Recently did a complete software rebuild and thought I’d share.

The original Mirror was standalone. This version is integrated with Home Assistant ( HA ).

Some of the cool stuff :

The Mirror renders an HA dashboard via an iFrame to show our house stats. Some of the figures you see there alternate every 15 seconds to display different stats with no visible refresh
Has a notification area ( another iFrame ) to alert you to things like the garage door is open, the hob gas is running low, etc. Notifications come and go i.e. you only see them when they need to be there
Uses HA for power saving. HA will turn the Mirror on or off using whose cell phone is in the house, if the alarm is on etc.

The physical mirror measures 1025mm x 720mm. But the 20" de-cased monitor that is the Magic Mirror only occupies the bottom right. The Pi 3B+ sits 5m away in cupboard. The cabling is routed through conduits in the wall. Much grinding, much dust ! The idea was to keep the profile super low so that it looks pretty much like an ordinary mirror

uros76

@Hilt cool stuff, that looks clean.
Which MM module are you using to display HA as iFrame? Refresh rate 15s is a must, can it be faster refresh rate?

stephanvdplas

@Hilt wow it looks great!

sdetweil

@uros76 you can use MMM-HomeAssistantSensors
No need for iframe. Then you can style them

uros76

@sdetweil yes I know ha module, I am using it for sensors data without any fancy looks. I’m too lazy and no time to learn styling every detail 😀

Hilt

@uros76

Thank you kindly !

I’m using this older module as it suits my needs i.e. No configurable options for refresh. As the values change in HA, so they change on the mirror

If you need an option with a lot more configurable options including refresh interval, have a look at this module