Cowboysdude's Mirror

[Mitchfarino]

I’m exactly the same, I have no experience in this

One of the developers here has developed a facial recognition module, so it might be worth checking that out if you’re interested

[flooo]

Can you show us the back side of the mirror?
I have everything set up, but I cant figure out how to build the frame for the mirror… ;-)

[Mitchfarino]

@flooo This guy has a fairly decent walk-through of his build - https://howchoo.com/project/mzu3ndm2otu/building-a-voice-controlled-smart-mirror-with-raspberry-pi-and-jasper

[cowboysdude]

@Mitchfarino just browsed through it quickly and yes you’re right this guy did an awesome walk through! I like the idea of voice but would at this point rather have facial recognition :) But I don’t see why we can’t have both!

[Mitchfarino]

@cowboysdude I’m going for voice recognition using Alexa instead of Jasper

PIR to disable/enable the monitor

Also looking to use the ultrasonic sensors for gestures too!

[cowboysdude]

@Mitchfarino said in Cowboysdude's Mirror:

ultrasonic sensors

I just got my PIR motion sensor and VIOLA it works… sleeps after so many seconds but once it detects movement it comes right back on! I run it through crontab…

if you want a copy of what I’m using for motion sensor I’ll share…I put them in the root and create a crontab to run pir.py and the rest is history… remember to chmod all three files… if you really wanted you could combine all three into one and instead of calling the off and on sh files you could just tell it to run the command from the py file… I will do that soon, just tired out today …work.

I have an Amazon Alexa sitting in my livingroom LOL BUT from what I’ve seen it’s a great option!

[Mitchfarino]

@cowboysdude cheers mate, that sounds great!

@paviro has created a PIR module, so I was looking to use that.

Is yours different?

[RedNax]

I’m using my own script aswell, however that just turns off/on the display. I think the module actually suspends the mirror… Saving power on the pi

[cowboysdude]

@Mitchfarino I like that module but I’m thinking it doesn’t work well with node v6 you have to roll back to v5 to use it. I tried but all I got was a white screen and couldn’t get it going.

When it gets updated to support node v6 I’ll try it again because as @RedNax says it actually saves power on the pi… what you and I are using simply blank the screen…

PS @Mitchfarino @RedNax made a Weather module that rocks!!

[Mitchfarino]

@cowboysdude hoping @paviro is working on it.

I’d been keen to see what you guys have done though. I have no experience coding for this, so I’m starting from scratch.

Ill check out @RedNax 's weather app too. I think I’m using the default for now