My Custom Smart Mirror.

[electros]

Hi, can you tell me please if your android app work from internet or just in local network ? And maybe you can share that app with us please ? Thanks.

[SubLim3]

@electros
The app is only a wrapper pointing to my mirror at http://192.168.1.222:8080/remote.html. This is only able to be done as I have statically assigned my mirror as the .222 address. I could run a port forward on my firewall and allow it to work from outside the house but I haven’t got a need to since I wouldn’t be standing in view of the mirror and it’s a security vulnerability. Let me know if you have further questions.

[azscram]

Nicely done.

Is that the PIR Sensor at the top of the mirror?

[SubLim3]

@azscram
No, that was my Echo Dot. The PIR is somewhat visible in the second picture. There is a small ribbon cable going from the Pi to the PIR. It’s on the right side so anytime I want it on I just wave my hand on right of the mirror. It’s incredibly sensitive so I never have a problem waking it up.

I am in process of adding a PS3 Eye cam and using MMM-Hotword and MMM-AssistantMk2. Might even go as far as training facial recognition.

[dawees]

nice setup. one question what module did u use for background ? I have MMM-EasyPix but do not know how to put pic to fullscreen. Can you share your config ?

[Mykle1]

@dawees

You could use MMM-EasyPix as a background module but that is really not its purpose. Just try this module.

https://github.com/mykle1/MMM-EasyBack

[dawees]

thanks works better :)

[Mykle1]

@dawees said in My Custom Smart Mirror.:

thanks works better

Fantastic! Enjoy! :-)

[SubLim3]

I use MMM-BackgroundSlideshow. Here is list of my modules:

Update: MMM-BackgroundSlideshow stopped working for me so I switched to MMM-EasyBack.

[hannes23]

Looks realy great, good work!

What monitor did you use? Mine is bleeding it’s backlight through the mirror, which isn’t the case with your screen, according to the pictures.

[SubLim3]

@hannes23 So long as the light in front of the mirror is brighter than the monitor behind the mirror it won’t bleed through. I am using an old LCD screen I had lying around but an OLED would produce the best results as the black on those is truly black. I only get bleed through when I turn the light off in my room. If the light is on, all looks good.

[MadScientist]

A mirror with a higher transmission should also reduce the backlight bleeding since you won’t have to increase the brightness as much, creating a better black and therefore having better contrast.

[PaulB]

Dear @SubLim3 the none looks cool. Well done :) Cool mirror. Where did hang it? Hope you guys enjoys it :)

Many Greetings from Germany,
Paul

[kass]

Hello! I have one question! The only type of mirror that you used in that project was the two-way mirror, right? I’m asking this because I’m looking to put 2 types of mirror: a two way one only for the monitor (because it’s a 17 inch 4:3 one and it’s small) and the rest will be just a simple mirror. Thanks in advance and also great project. Good luck.

[yawns]

@kass said in My Custom Smart Mirror.:

Hello! I have one question! The only type of mirror that you used in that project was the two-way mirror, right? I’m asking this because I’m looking to put 2 types of mirror: a two way one only for the monitor (because it’s a 17 inch 4:3 one and it’s small) and the rest will be just a simple mirror. Thanks in advance and also great project. Good luck.

You don’t need to do that. Use one big mirror glass, place the monitor wherever you want to and make sure the entire rest of the mirror is covered with black foil, black cardboard or something similar. As long as no light from the back reached the area of the mirror glass it works like a mirror and you cannot “look behind”. Only the area which is lit up by the monitor will be see through.

[SubLim3]

YET ANOTHER UPDATE: I have gone through and added a few more modules to include MMM_AssistantMK2, MMM_AlexaOnOff and MMM-Screencast. Having the embedded Google assistant in the mirror helps get additional information when I see something about weather or my calendar. Having AlexaOnOff helps when I want to vocally turn the mirror on/off or even reboot or update. I use the screen cast occasionally to play fitness videos while correcting my form. I even added a much larger list of compliments including ones specific to weather that everyone tends to enjoy.

Lastly, I added the WatchDog module which has really helped stabilize the mirror. I recommend anyone running this on a Pi to have this module. This has been at times challenging but remains on of my favorite projects and gets used daily. I hope everyone enjoys theirs as much as I enjoy mine.

[dazza120]

@SubLim3 in what way has Watchdog stabilised the mirror with a pi?

[SubLim3]

@dazza120 I never determined why but my mirror would “hide all modules” regularly. I would constantly wake up or notice that the screen was on but not displaying anything. A restart of MM would resolve but since running WatchDog this hasn’t been the case. It’s like services stopped working and WatchDog is supposed to restart any services that stop. I installed WatchDog at the same time I updated to the latest MM build so it could be coincidental.

[dazza120]

@SubLim3 ok cool, may have to look at this but for now I’ve upgraded to the Pi4 4Gb, I think the main issue with the pi is memory and holding onto memory once a service loads.

[SubLim3]

@dazza120 I have had my image tightly packed onto an 8gb SD Image and then run it on a 16gb image for more space. Overtime Cache and whatever else was maxing out my 8gb. I haven’t had any issues since rebuilding the image with newer MM and Modules. Running WatchDog and having it all on a 16gb image seems to have really helped.