Bored during Quarantine

sgarg15

This was meant to be an open topic but i see your point,
So basically i wanted a mirror which could display time and the weather but after finding out theres a whole community on this i wanted to take a step further. But i dont know where to start. This mirror will be going in my room and most of the time i will be the only one looking at the mirror.

currently i am working on getting ultrasonic sensors to work with pages so i can do a sliding motion and switch pages.

If there are other questions to help me out please post on this forum

Thanks

sdetweil

@sgarg15 you don’t need pages yet. Not enough to switch between

What else would u display? sports, moon pics, space station, ???

I display pictures from my local server.
Some stock prices, the virus info.

But I do mostly development, so all kinds of different stuff

Mykle1

@sgarg15

Have you looked at the 3rd party modules page? There’s something for everyone (Just about)

https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/wiki/3rd-party-modules

bhepler

If it’s just going to be you looking at it for the most part, I would lean towards modules that display data that updates on a regular basis. So, some suggestions:

RSS feeds from The Onion, NewsThump, Babylon Bee, Duffel Blog, etc.
Pics from the space station, solar imagery, etc.
Word of the Day
Spotify or other streaming music
COVID-19 stats
Fortune / Horoscope / lucky numbers
Dad Jokes
XKCD, Dilbert, etc.
Aftership

Additionally, this pandemic will be over at some point. You may wish to look for modules that will impress visitors.
Places I’ve Been
MMM-Globe
MMM-OClock

etc.

sgarg15

@bhepler Yea i am mainly looking for things that would impress, i like the MMM-Globe module and other suggestions that would look really cool on a mirror and that would impress

bhepler

@sgarg15 - The MMM-Globe is visually impressive. As is the one for the moon.

If your hardware can handle it, look into encom-globe. Visually stunning, but it absolutely overwhelms a RPI 3+. RPI 4 might be able to handle it.

I played around with MMM-IHaveBeenThere and it is pretty slick. Like the encom globe, it’s a resource hog. But if you turn off the animated airplane it’s not so bad.

sgarg15

@bhepler Yea i have a raspberry 2 b+ so i dont think it can handle the ecnom globe module, so could you tell me the one that is like MMM-Globe but for the moon and any other modules that will look really nice and that my raspberry pi will probably be able to handle?

bhepler

@sgarg15 - I would recommend going through @Mykle1’s modules. Dude is a fiend with finding an API and creating a module around it. Just check out the list. Specifically, look at HumanClock, Lunartic and NatureCalendar.

Beyond that, I suggest that you spend some quality time with the Modules -> Showcase section of the forums here.

sgarg15

@bhepler cool i will have a look through, for MMM-Globe do you know which style they used to get this ?

bhepler

@sgarg15 - No. And that’s the fun of experimenting. Find out for yourself.

I could give you the answer, but to do so I would have to do all the work of testing out the various options in order to duplicate what you say that you want. And I would end up passing though various options you might want more than this one. It is far better for you to learn the module and figure out what appeals to you.

Knuckle up and learn.