Magic mirror with RPI 4?

[Mrr]

@sdetweil out of curiousity, what do the 4 different pis/sdc do on the tv?

I’m extremely new to this (my only experience with rpi being the basic retro gaming console with Kodi), so excuse my ignorance here, but I’m assuming that most new tvs have the 16:9 aspect ratio?

What modules do you recommend using for a tv magic mirror? (In terms of having it wake up/go to sleep)… I’ve heard that the most annoying thing with using a television is that it will often go to the “no signal” screen when not in use, and I’d like to avoid this if possible

[sdetweil]

@Mrr yes, anything in the last 15 yrs (maybe more) has been 16:9

i have a jetson nano on one port, an odroid XU4 on another, PI 3b+ and a pi 0 W on the last…

gives me options to try different things… (I just updated the installer module to cover a lot more systems)
see https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/10171/anyone-want-to-try-updated-installer

and a new script for update, which happens frequently (quarterly)
https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/10859/new-update-upgrade-script-ready-for-testing

and I have my own stuff I write and modify

as for the tv no input problem, I ended up writing my own module MMM-SleepWake.
that supports a webcam for motion (no PIR sensor here at the time), and it will blanks the screen… (hide all the modules)…

not completely dark, no power saving… but it works…

uses an installable OS module (apt-get install motion) to connect to the camera ( more than I wanted to learn) so ANYTHING can be used to drive SleepWake as its all file notice based…

[Mrr]

Thanks for the links @sdetweil, I’ll toy with it a bit once I get my screen this weekend and hopefully I can come up with something. I wish they made larger computer monitors, as that seems to be the best to work with, but oh well! I feel like the extra work that a tv monitor takes is probably worth it to have a bigger mirror in the end hey?

You’ll likely be seeing me around with a ton of questions in the coming weeks as I try to figure this out

[Mrr]

And also, just to confirm… the type of tv that I use doesn’t make a difference, correct?

I’m looking to pick up a second hand 50" from someone off Craigslist. Its a flat screen but I’m not sure how old. Are there any specific things that I should look for in a TV monitor? I know one thing that was mentioned was to look for one that has the HDMI ports on the side, but anything else?

[sdetweil]

@Mrr correct… doesn’t matter… I started with a 50 in , non-4k from craigslist in 2016. just replaced recently with the 55…

I have a 32 in in the hall (the largest photoframe I could find was 24in, and $400… so for $110 including the pi, I made a 32 in FF. connected to my local lan linux server (actually the pics are all on an external 5tb drive)

[sdetweil]

I LOVE seeing my photos large!