Using the Raspberry Pi Camera to see through the mirror

[Synthic]

@dpenney That’s what bugs me:

1. The PiCamera works great normally
2. I can see through the mirror
3. My Nexus 5 camera can see through the mirror
4. The PiCamera can not. (it CAN, but it is waaaay too dark)

[dpenney]

@Synthic That is frustrating…

I think the facial recognition module uses python-picamera to talk to the camera, are you able to tweak the configs somewhere in order to up the brightness?
https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/usage/camera/python/README.md

[dpenney]

This is where the camera is setup - try adding
camera.brightness = 90

https://github.com/paviro/MMM-Facial-Recognition/blob/master/facerecognition/picam.py

Worth a shot :)

[broberg]

@Synthic I can tell you that my nexus 5 camera does not like my glass at all, al tough, the light transmission on my mirror is really low.

[Synthic]

@dpenney This is my setup:

This photo is with normal camera:

This photo with PiCamera:

With brightness=90, I tried screwing around with most settings without result.

[dpenney]

Yeeesh that is dark - although even the pic with the normal camera is really dark. Much less contrast than I was getting, perhaps you do have a bad camera as the quality definitely shouldn’t be that poor.

[JonoGee]

@Synthic
Hi Synthic, Please may I ask what module you used to display the PiCam feed in MagicMirror?
Regards

[lolobyte]

@Synthic Hi, here my cam through my mirror on daytime and with lights and my setup. All pictures later…

This one cam through mirror with lights.