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

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    boblazer @yawns
    last edited by Mar 14, 2019, 4:28 PM

    @yawns Yes! Thanks.

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      boblazer @qu1que
      last edited by Mar 14, 2019, 4:32 PM

      @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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        htilburgs
        last edited by Mar 15, 2019, 12:57 PM

        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
          last edited by boblazer Mar 16, 2019, 11:09 PM Mar 16, 2019, 11:05 PM

          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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            htilburgs
            last edited by Mar 16, 2019, 11:11 PM

            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
              last edited by Mar 17, 2019, 4:49 PM

              @htilburgs

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                BluP Project Sponsor @BluP
                last edited by Mar 17, 2019, 5:00 PM

                @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
                  last edited by Mar 17, 2019, 6:25 PM

                  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
                    last edited by Mar 18, 2019, 10:59 AM

                    @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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                      MadScientist
                      last edited by Mar 18, 2019, 11:36 AM

                      The microwave sensor is compatible with the MMM-PIR-sensor module.

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