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    Do you use a PIR sensor? How do you hide it?

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    • qu1queQ Offline
      qu1que Project Sponsor
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      I’ve made an 8 mm hole, as you can see here:

      https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/7263/my-first-smart-mirror-in-a-frame-of-40-x-30-cm-with-raspberry-pi-zero-w/2

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        boblazer @yawns
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        @yawns Yes! Thanks.

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          boblazer @qu1que
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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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          • htilburgsH Offline
            htilburgs
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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:
            alt text

            Frontside:
            alt text

            (still trying to learn JS, but not afraid to ask) ☺

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              boblazer
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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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              • htilburgsH Offline
                htilburgs
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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 🤔

                (still trying to learn JS, but not afraid to ask) ☺

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                  BluP Project Sponsor @htilburgs
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                  @htilburgs

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                    BluP Project Sponsor @BluP
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                    @BluP said in Do you use a PIR sensor? How do you hide it?:

                    @htilburgs

                    You May also think of some different solution: I‘m using a Hue Motion detector which is in my corridor anyway and controls the MM via MM-remotecontrol using the Http get requests through HomeKit and homebridge

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                      onkelbobby
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                      I did not use PIR sensor because it needs to “see” through the frame. After a little research I found an microwave based motion sensor called
                      RWCL-0516. This tiny PCB works super reliable even though ma 20mm thick wooden frame.

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                        htilburgs
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                        @onkelbobby, seems nice for my next mirror ;-)
                        How let you this interact with the Pi and MagicMirror? Is there a module, or do you use a Python script?

                        (still trying to learn JS, but not afraid to ask) ☺

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