My new Magic Mirror

Fozi

Both thumbs up for the frameless design!

emagic

How did you get MMM-PIR-Sensor working? Can’t seem to get it working. I only get blank screen when starting up.

pablousavilla

To be honest, I just followed the instructions here:

https://github.com/paviro/MMM-PIR-Sensor

But something you could try is to turn it on and off in the command line just to make sure that the instruction is correct, as there are 2 possibilities:

/usr/bin/vcgencmd display_power 0
/usr/bin/vcgencmd display_power 1

And
echo ‘standby 0’ | cec-client -s -d 1
echo ‘on 0’ | cec-client -s -d 1

You can find them in the code: https://github.com/paviro/MMM-PIR-Sensor/blob/master/node_helper.js

Depending on that, you need to modify your config.js options

I hope that helps

drventure

@pablousavilla Not sure if you;re still having troubles with the camera, but I ran into the same thing. the one way mirror significantly darkens the image. In my case, the mirror has a frame so I drilled a tiny hole, painted it black, and routed out the back of the frame so the camera was flush to the frame face.

That helped, a lot, but in the dark, still wasn’t enough to recognize faces.

So I switched to the NOIR raspi camera, then added a couple of IR Leds. The image from the NOIR camera won’t win any awards, but that’s ok. it’s just for motion detection and face reco, and that works great now, regardless of whether the lights are on or off. just train it with a decent sample set.

With yours, since there’s no frame, it might be a bit trickier. I found that the one way mirror reflected a TON of IR light, too much to get a good picture from the camera if the camera was located behind the glass.

You might try some IR lights behind the glass and mount the camera below the bottom, tilted up. Or maybe replace one of the mount bolts with a “fake” that has a hole for the camera.

Rachee

@emagic Ditto, have tried countless times and its sad as have kinda given up with my project as a result! 😩

sdetweil

@rachee who did u reply to?