Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
Do you use a PIR sensor? How do you hide it?
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@boblazer i haven’t done mine yet… but to put behind the glass you need additional space around the screen of course…
then mount on some wood/etc, with black cardboard or whatever and have the pinhole there, or whatever the sensor needs… nothing magic…
some sensors don’t work behind…
my PIR board looks like it needs a little over 1/4 in for the sensor hole, measured at 8mm,
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@sdetweil said in Do you use a PIR sensor? How do you hide it?:
maybe you only need 2mm of that to make the sensor work…
Yeah, that’s my understanding. I can’t find the post but it was here on this site. A guy did some experiments to find the smallest size hole his PIR sensor actually required. He tried 1mm, 2mm and 4mm(?). He said it worked just fine with a 2mm hole.
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@boblazer said in Do you use a PIR sensor? How do you hide it?:
@sdetweil said in Do you use a PIR sensor? How do you hide it?:
maybe you only need 2mm of that to make the sensor work…
Yeah, that’s my understanding. I can’t find the post but it was here on this site. A guy did some experiments to find the smallest size hole his PIR sensor actually required. He tried 1mm, 2mm and 4mm(?). He said it worked just fine with a 2mm hole.
You are referring to this one: https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/557/pir-sensor-behind-glass/33
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I’ve made an 8 mm hole, as you can see here:
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@yawns Yes! Thanks.
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@qu1que Having other lights there like you do makes it fit in a little better. That’s something to think about. Maybe I’m trying to make mine look too old-fashioned.
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I made a 8 mm hole on the backside and a 2 mm hole on the frontside.
Removed the cap from the motion sensor and placed it in the 8 mm hole.
Works great and you can hardly see the 2 mm hole.Backside:
Frontside:
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Nice pic, thanks for showing us how it actually looks.
It still bugs me though. Looking at yours I wonder if putting a power light (or something light) next to the PIR hole would make the PIR hole look like less of a forced design choice. You know, it could even be a chiche looking light that blends into the wood and lights up in such a way that it doesn’t make the mirror look tacky and also doesn’t give you the feeling that it’s like a monitor power light.
I don’t know what that would look like. Not super bright. Maybe kind of dull but not so dull that it looks weak. Maybe a good complimentary color to the wood. Maybe not a circle or a rectangle but a cool shape like a rhombus. Maybe you could put a logo or text of some sort on the face of the mirror and hide the hole there and it wouldn’t look out of place.
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I still have to paint the frame, thinking of a kind of ‘white-wash’ so you keep seeing the wood grains. Maybe it’s less ‘obvious’.
But you know and I know, but most visitors I’ve had didn’t even see it or looking for it 🤔 -
