Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
A thin MM with metal frame, hidden IR camera and 32" Inch HDTV
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@SvenSommer I was talking to one of my co-workers about the facial recognition module, and he believes he can make it much faster. The issue, as he sees it, is not the actual recognition of whose face is in the image, but in all of the up-front work involved in preparing the comparison. First the image needs to be captured from the camera, then it has to be analyzed for the presence of one or more faces. Those parts of the image are cropped, resized and converted to grayscale, all on the CPU which does the operations one pixel at a time. The actual recognition of the face in the image is, according to him, the easy part and not the performance bottleneck.
He’s looking into whether any or all of this can be offloaded to the GPU and executed in ways that are far more efficient. Who knows… we might have good facial recognition working soon!
That said, I’ve found less and less practical use for separate display profiles, now having had my mirror on the wall for a few weeks. It turns out that most of the information on the mirror is useful to everyone in my household, so different profiles really only differ by one or two modules, and I’m not having problems fitting everything on to the screen at once. I would like the mirror to be able to greet me, however, when I stand in front of it, as it adds that cool factor. But I doubt I’m going to use it to actually change the display of the mirror.
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@SvenSommer I’m not a fan of using the Facial Recognition part… just don’t want a camera on it. That’s the only reason. MMM-Voice is a really great module!! On a Pi yes it is a bit slow… but I’m running a mini itx with Intel chip and Ubuntu so the speed is really good…
Actually this is what I"m using:
Mini Itx with intel chip
8 gig ram
120gb SSD
Wireless mini cardSO far it’s been awesome performance wise and the voice is instant… and it works great plus it can be incorporated into other modules as he wrote out the instructions on how to do it :)
I will check out OpenHab this week as I"m on vacation [holiday] … HesitaPi is going to be awesome once all the bugs are out and honestly it’s real close now!
What I’m REALLY curious about is who built your metal frame?
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@j.e.f.f said in A thin MM with metal frame, hidden IR camera and 32" Inch HDTV:
That said, I’ve found less and less practical use for separate display profiles, now having had my mirror on the wall for a few weeks. It turns out that most of the information on the mirror is useful to everyone in my household, so different profiles really only differ by one or two modules, and I’m not having problems fitting everything on to the screen at once. I would like the mirror to be able to greet me, however, when I stand in front of it, as it adds that cool factor. But I doubt I’m going to use it to actually change the display of the mirror.
That’s exactly why I didn’t bother with it. Not because it’s not a good module but because I really don’t need it.
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@cowboysdude The Frame was made in small factory in Berlin. The main challenge was to find somebody with free capacities in the next three month!!
Seems like it’s a good place for metal processing companies around Berlin! -
I found I nice website to share constructions online, its’called Onshape.
If someone is interested in the metal frame model. It’s available here. -
@SvenSommer
Can you decipher even more details about the costs of the used parts? -
@Arthur
Sure, I already thought about this. Unfortunately I’m very busy this week. Hope to get it done on the weekend. -
Great! Thank you!
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I’m planning to upgrade the RasperryPi3 with a stronger board, to get several powerful module run able at the same time.
If you have gained some experience with an alternative, please share in this topic. -
@Arthur: The costs, used parts and main challenges I experienced when building my smart mirror are now updated on my blog on
http://robstechlog.com/2017/06/25/building-a-big-magicmirror-with-metal-frame-the-summary-parts-prices/
