@anthem212 well there are three commands to turn off the output

vcgencmd
dpms

these two turn off the HDMI port, NOT the monitor/tv

and cec-client

this turns off the monitor/tv
IF it supports the cec command(correctly)

and then you would need a people sensor,
most use use infrared, as it’s ‘easy’.

there are modules that put all this together.

search here for MMM-PIR

Now to get your speed requirements will be a little harder. I use TV’s for my two main mirror systems. 43 and 55 in.
one supports cec, the other doesn’t.
when I turn off the HDMI port on both, they put up a big NO INPUT screen , and power off after 15 minutes.
that is energy star compliant.
but you can’t turn them on via software

if it supports cec, then maybe you can turn off/on via software. mine is inconsistent. always can turn on, but not off
on is the same as pushing the button, takes 15 seconds, displays the product logo and all that.

I gave up, and just hide the mm content and leave the TV’s on. the one in the hall I call the nightlight!

I also use a webcam for motion detection, instead of pir, cause that’s what I had at the time

as yours is a 4k tv, I’m guessing it supports cec

install the cec-utils package on pi
sudo apt install cec-utils

this also only works on my pi 4. not pi3.

@sdetweil said in Which Alexa module is better, Awesome Alexa or Mirror Mirror on the Wall:

alexaControl

wasn’t aware of this module - thanks for the info as always!

Check out https://www.cutplasticsheeting.co.uk/mirrored-sheeting/two-way-acrylic-mirror/ for the mirror. Any local glaziers should be contacted also

@Abram the current code has no ability to see the header or its contents

@jmwyds 2.7 is a long time back… module getting old with no maintenance

@MZ-BER To be honest, I forgot to add the code to turn it off. Was gonna fix something else and re-release in a couple of days.

Hi all!

After a bit of work and quite some waiting, all pieces arrived and I gave an old notebook’s screen with a broken motherboard new life in the form of an informational screen just next to my frontdoor.

Before that, the requirements were that the screen had to be as unobstructive as possible so it had to be thin, and it had to look good on the wall as well, without any cables in sight. As a bonus, if it had the possibility to get a view of my living room it would be a nice touch.

The final result is this:
Final result

But first things first, I had to plan it first:

Planning

Cutting the slot for the screen

General shape

Butchering the door

Electronics

After some initial testing, I decided to paint the frame and insert the webcam:

Inserting webcam

Frontal view

After assembling everything, this was the end result:

Close-up of final result

Used hardware:

Some wood, black paint and quite some tools An old HP Pavillion DV6000 screen, which is actually a Samsung LTN154X3-L01 The corresponding driver and a 12v/5A PSU for it (way overkill but I’m pretending to use that same PSU for some other stuff in the future) rpi4 4GB

Software used:

Magic Mirror running via Docker (I want to install a magic mirror upstairs as well so it should use the same server. This pi also runs 15 other images as well, I don’t want to install anything on it except for Docker) Firefox-esr with an add-on that allows the browser to start up full screen. I tried Chromium in kiosk mode, but it displayed a message after a while stating that it couldn’t be updated. Didn’t want to spent more time in it, so went the easy way. To turn the screen on or off I wrote a small bash script and I used node-red for the actual programming of it. MQTT Home Assistant

Modules:

MMM-bustimes MMM-Buienradar MMM-BurnIn MMM-CalendarExt2 MMM-DailyAlarm MMM-IndoorTemperature-Endpoint MMM-RandomPhoto MMM-TomTomTrafficIncidents

Pending improvements:

Integrate MMM-MQTT into the monitor so that I can display some pieces of information directly on the screen Integrate MMM-iFrame or MMM-iFrame-Ping so that I can display some grafana graphics (I really like the gauge that Grafana produces) Integrate MMM-Pages Make another actual mirror which will be upstairs

I hope you liked this project as much as I enjoyed making it!

More photo’s and details can be found here: https://imgur.com/a/b3TcNSt

@bastos5 joli travail 🙂
J’espère que le rdv à la banque s’est bien passé 😉

Merci pour avoir posté votre mirror, j’attaque le mien et cela me donne des idées
bonne journée

Somebody knows how can I use the temperature shown in current weather to show some compliments?

Actually I have compliments by hour (morning, night, etc) and by weather (sunny, cloudy, etc) but I need by “temperature ranges”. Please your help.

@jonspraggins please use the upgrade script here

https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/10859/new-update-upgrade-script-ready-for-testing

@BreakBeatJunkie said in My Smart Mirror:

have some thermal troubles, the PI CPU is getting hot. (65°C)

Heatsink? Fan? Both!

@jeremy0213 I’m looking to do exactly this. Did you ever get around to adding PIR, assistant integration/microphone (Alexa), and touch frame capabilities?

How has it been used in the past ~1.5 years? Hoping your family loves it as much as I hope my family does!

@Doogain I submitted the changes to the project this morning so in the next release they should be included