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    24" monitor shows trough glass

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    • A Offline
      alfiboy
      last edited by

      See the picture to understand what my issue is.
      Have a 24" display with a larger glass from Amazon.

      What can I do to only see the text/icons trough?

      18" x 24" x 0.12" Acrylic See-Through Mirror, 30% Transparent

      https://photos.app.goo.gl/a18pyHnRw1n4AigE6

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        ttarzan
        last edited by

        @alfiboy It looks like the brightness or backlight of your monitor is set too high.

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        • lavolp3L Offline
          lavolp3 Module Developer
          last edited by

          This is a common problem and not easy to be solved.

          Several things determine that:

          • the lighting
          • the quality / transparency of your mirror (30% is quite high, acrylic is not really high quality)
          • the backlighting of your display.

          I would suggest the following:

          1st:

          • Play with what you have: Better lighting in the room, the brighter the room the better the reflection
          • Adjust brightness of the monitor down to as low as possible. Keep contrast high.
          • Remember that you can play with the css colors. By standard, all text is set to different levels of gray, not to bright white. You can set all text color in oyur custom.css to a brighter white and lower the brightness of your monitor even more. Copy the entries in the main.css to your custom.css and change them to brighter values.

          If that doesn’t suffice

          2nd:

          • Buy better glass :-). Maybe find someone selling samples of two-way mirror glass.

          How to troubleshoot modules
          MMM-soccer v2, MMM-AVStock

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          • A Offline
            alfiboy
            last edited by

            Wow, did not expect reply that quick. Thanks, will defenetly try the recommendations!

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