Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
How to make it as slim as possible?
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@leadfarmer That’s pretty slim… a lot slimmer then the one I bought… wow… I like that one! :)
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@leadfarmer yeah, at the moment you probably won’t find anything slimmer than that, what could it be 30mm at the base?
Don’t bother with an adapter just buy a hdmi cable with the angled connector instead, I think there is really short ones out there.
I’m also building a 120*60cm bathroom mirror, but I’m also putting in some 240v outlets in the frame so mine is around 10cm deep, I have lots of space inside.
Are you planning on a frame or just “studs” around/through the mirror?
And btw, I wouldn’t disassemble it, if it breaks while still under warranty, you will be glad you didn’t take it appart :)
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@broberg interested to see how yours comes out.
Decided to go with a different monitor that is only 57mm thick (including the case). The one I linked before has the hdmi/power plugs horizontal rather than vertical so that would have added more depth to the mirror.
I’m now going with a 1200 x 900mm mirror with a box frame that will be about 70mm deep.
I’m tempted to put a power socket in the ceiling and put the pi and pir sensor up there, meaning that I would just need to run the hdmi and monitor power cable down the wall to the mirror.
What do you think?
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@leadfarmer sounds good! But going up in height of the mirror I would get a larger monitor to fill the height, 24" works well with the 600mm height, but with 900mm I would get a 32" monitor (aprox 720-750mm wide at 16:9).
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@broberg still gonna use a 24 inch. I’ve got the modules aligned down the left hand side and across the bottom and will have the monitor in the bottom left (portrait orientation). So from the outside the graphics will start about eye height and run down the left to the corner then across the bottom a little.
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@leadfarmer I’m just thinking about the backlight of the screen, since no monitor has pure black there will always be bleed through on the mirror, and with a smaller monitor you get more visible edges than if you try to run the monitor as close to the mirrors edges as possible.
In a bright lighted room in most cases it doesn’t matter, but still, trying to eliminate that will make for a better magicmirror :-)
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@broberg good point. You’d still get the bleed on the right hand edge though?
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@broberg speaking of the ‘bleed’ from the monitor - what percentage of light comes through your mirror? I was looking at 70-80% reflective…
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@leadfarmer yeah you would get an edge to the right, but just to the right, not right and up :-)
I have a mirror with 57% reflection and 3% light transmission, 3% isn’t much and will probably give me a bit of an issue if the bathroom turns out to become super bright. But with only one window and dark tiles I’m hoping it will be enough crossing fingers
57% reflection gives a slight dark reflection, 65-75% would make for a better mirror surface.
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@broberg hmmm that might be why you get a more obvious bleed.
I might see if I can get some different samples and I’ll test which works the best.
