<![CDATA[A thin MM with metal frame, hidden IR camera and 32" Inch HDTV]]>Description

When I first run into the Magic Mirror project I was convinced this was something I wanted to build on my own. Without the amazing work and the easy to use framework by Michael Teeuw and this forum, this wouldn’t any possible to archive. And yes, this was real fun!

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Checkout my blog on http://www.robstechlog.com/building/ for more details.

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/4424/a-thin-mm-with-metal-frame-hidden-ir-camera-and-32-inch-hdtvRSS for NodeTue, 09 Jun 2026 20:56:26 GMTSun, 09 Jul 2017 21:21:05 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to A thin MM with metal frame, hidden IR camera and 32" Inch HDTV on Thu, 19 Oct 2017 13:59:30 GMT]]>every time i come back to this thread…i can’t help drooling over that frame…man that would be sweet to have!

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/29812https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/29812Thu, 19 Oct 2017 13:59:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A thin MM with metal frame, hidden IR camera and 32" Inch HDTV on Wed, 18 Oct 2017 21:48:01 GMT]]>@SvenSommer I agree but I’m going to find out soon enough LOL I used to run a window cleaning company so I’m good there :)

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/29771https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/29771Wed, 18 Oct 2017 21:48:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A thin MM with metal frame, hidden IR camera and 32" Inch HDTV on Wed, 18 Oct 2017 19:45:11 GMT]]>A touch display of this size is a big cost factor.
In addition you would always have some fingerprints on the mirror.
A better solution is maybe a gesture control.

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/29765https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/29765Wed, 18 Oct 2017 19:45:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A thin MM with metal frame, hidden IR camera and 32" Inch HDTV on Thu, 14 Sep 2017 14:03:36 GMT]]>Have you thought about adding touch to the mirror or is that a dumb idea?

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/28084https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/28084Thu, 14 Sep 2017 14:03:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A thin MM with metal frame, hidden IR camera and 32" Inch HDTV on Wed, 06 Sep 2017 20:44:44 GMT]]>@Arthur
Not by now, but definitely before Christmas ;-)

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/27727https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/27727Wed, 06 Sep 2017 20:44:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A thin MM with metal frame, hidden IR camera and 32" Inch HDTV on Wed, 16 Aug 2017 23:59:24 GMT]]>@bwente said in A thin MM with metal frame, hidden IR camera and 32" Inch HDTV:

@SvenSommer @cowboysdude

I have been trying out https://home-assistant.io/ I got it running on an old raspberry pi. Haven’t spent a lot of time on it, I hoping to back to once I get my mirror finished.

That would be an awesome addition to MM :) Keep us in the loop on this one!!

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/26641https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/26641Wed, 16 Aug 2017 23:59:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A thin MM with metal frame, hidden IR camera and 32" Inch HDTV on Wed, 16 Aug 2017 23:55:32 GMT]]>@SvenSommer @cowboysdude

I have been trying out https://home-assistant.io/ I got it running on an old raspberry pi. Haven’t spent a lot of time on it, I hoping to back to once I get my mirror finished.

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/26640https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/26640Wed, 16 Aug 2017 23:55:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A thin MM with metal frame, hidden IR camera and 32" Inch HDTV on Wed, 16 Aug 2017 19:52:05 GMT]]>Any news on replacing your Pi with a more powerful alternative?

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/26634https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/26634Wed, 16 Aug 2017 19:52:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A thin MM with metal frame, hidden IR camera and 32" Inch HDTV on Sun, 23 Jul 2017 20:17:37 GMT]]>@Arthur: The costs, used parts and main challenges I experienced when building my smart mirror are now updated on my blog on
http://robstechlog.com/2017/06/25/building-a-big-magicmirror-with-metal-frame-the-summary-parts-prices/

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/25688https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/25688Sun, 23 Jul 2017 20:17:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A thin MM with metal frame, hidden IR camera and 32" Inch HDTV on Fri, 21 Jul 2017 06:56:04 GMT]]>I’m planning to upgrade the RasperryPi3 with a stronger board, to get several powerful module run able at the same time.
If you have gained some experience with an alternative, please share in this topic.

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/25595https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/25595Fri, 21 Jul 2017 06:56:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A thin MM with metal frame, hidden IR camera and 32" Inch HDTV on Tue, 18 Jul 2017 14:17:06 GMT]]>Great! Thank you!

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/25476https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/25476Tue, 18 Jul 2017 14:17:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A thin MM with metal frame, hidden IR camera and 32" Inch HDTV on Mon, 17 Jul 2017 19:20:34 GMT]]>@Arthur
Sure, I already thought about this. Unfortunately I’m very busy this week. Hope to get it done on the weekend.

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/25453https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/25453Mon, 17 Jul 2017 19:20:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A thin MM with metal frame, hidden IR camera and 32" Inch HDTV on Sun, 16 Jul 2017 12:26:47 GMT]]>@SvenSommer
Can you decipher even more details about the costs of the used parts?

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/25391https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/25391Sun, 16 Jul 2017 12:26:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A thin MM with metal frame, hidden IR camera and 32" Inch HDTV on Fri, 14 Jul 2017 17:52:38 GMT]]>I found I nice website to share constructions online, its’called Onshape.
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If someone is interested in the metal frame model. It’s available here.

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/25343https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/25343Fri, 14 Jul 2017 17:52:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A thin MM with metal frame, hidden IR camera and 32" Inch HDTV on Thu, 13 Jul 2017 07:03:44 GMT]]>@cowboysdude The Frame was made in small factory in Berlin. The main challenge was to find somebody with free capacities in the next three month!!
Seems like it’s a good place for metal processing companies around Berlin!

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/25295https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/25295Thu, 13 Jul 2017 07:03:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A thin MM with metal frame, hidden IR camera and 32" Inch HDTV on Tue, 11 Jul 2017 20:08:23 GMT]]>@j.e.f.f said in A thin MM with metal frame, hidden IR camera and 32" Inch HDTV:

That said, I’ve found less and less practical use for separate display profiles, now having had my mirror on the wall for a few weeks. It turns out that most of the information on the mirror is useful to everyone in my household, so different profiles really only differ by one or two modules, and I’m not having problems fitting everything on to the screen at once. I would like the mirror to be able to greet me, however, when I stand in front of it, as it adds that cool factor. But I doubt I’m going to use it to actually change the display of the mirror.

That’s exactly why I didn’t bother with it. Not because it’s not a good module but because I really don’t need it.

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/25234https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/25234Tue, 11 Jul 2017 20:08:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A thin MM with metal frame, hidden IR camera and 32" Inch HDTV on Tue, 11 Jul 2017 20:08:59 GMT]]>@SvenSommer I’m not a fan of using the Facial Recognition part… just don’t want a camera on it. That’s the only reason. MMM-Voice is a really great module!! On a Pi yes it is a bit slow… but I’m running a mini itx with Intel chip and Ubuntu so the speed is really good…

Actually this is what I"m using:

Mini Itx with intel chip
8 gig ram
120gb SSD
Wireless mini card

SO far it’s been awesome performance wise and the voice is instant… and it works great plus it can be incorporated into other modules as he wrote out the instructions on how to do it :)

I will check out OpenHab this week as I"m on vacation [holiday] … HesitaPi is going to be awesome once all the bugs are out and honestly it’s real close now!

What I’m REALLY curious about is who built your metal frame?

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/25233https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/25233Tue, 11 Jul 2017 20:08:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A thin MM with metal frame, hidden IR camera and 32" Inch HDTV on Tue, 11 Jul 2017 19:39:07 GMT]]>@SvenSommer I was talking to one of my co-workers about the facial recognition module, and he believes he can make it much faster. The issue, as he sees it, is not the actual recognition of whose face is in the image, but in all of the up-front work involved in preparing the comparison. First the image needs to be captured from the camera, then it has to be analyzed for the presence of one or more faces. Those parts of the image are cropped, resized and converted to grayscale, all on the CPU which does the operations one pixel at a time. The actual recognition of the face in the image is, according to him, the easy part and not the performance bottleneck.

He’s looking into whether any or all of this can be offloaded to the GPU and executed in ways that are far more efficient. Who knows… we might have good facial recognition working soon!

That said, I’ve found less and less practical use for separate display profiles, now having had my mirror on the wall for a few weeks. It turns out that most of the information on the mirror is useful to everyone in my household, so different profiles really only differ by one or two modules, and I’m not having problems fitting everything on to the screen at once. I would like the mirror to be able to greet me, however, when I stand in front of it, as it adds that cool factor. But I doubt I’m going to use it to actually change the display of the mirror.

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/25232https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/25232Tue, 11 Jul 2017 19:39:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A thin MM with metal frame, hidden IR camera and 32" Inch HDTV on Tue, 11 Jul 2017 18:52:58 GMT]]>@Arthur
Thanks for the flowers!

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/25230https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/25230Tue, 11 Jul 2017 18:52:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A thin MM with metal frame, hidden IR camera and 32" Inch HDTV on Tue, 11 Jul 2017 18:51:20 GMT]]>@cowboysdude What are hardware are you going to use? I tried to run the MMM-Facial-Recognition by paviro and the MMM-Voice by fewieden on a RaspberryPi 3 with really disappointing results.
I appreciate the evaluation of the touch display runs on its own processor!?

HestiaPi looks really promising. Please share your experiences!

I’ve been using OpenHab for over two years now. It’s really great if you want to connect several pieces of smart home hardware from different companies. It makes it also very easy to log your data on your own databases without sending data to a cloud service. As I’m a big fan of aggregated data in useful charts I’m really loving this!
They are working on a big version change, that should by the adaption of new users. Maybe now its a good time to check it out ;)

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/25228https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/25228Tue, 11 Jul 2017 18:51:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A thin MM with metal frame, hidden IR camera and 32" Inch HDTV on Tue, 11 Jul 2017 17:33:52 GMT]]>Wow, that’s a nice mirror. Really great work!

I also liked your blog! I’m already looking forward to the other projects on your site.

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/25223https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/25223Tue, 11 Jul 2017 17:33:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A thin MM with metal frame, hidden IR camera and 32" Inch HDTV on Mon, 10 Jul 2017 22:13:05 GMT]]>@SvenSommer Yes that’s what I’m doing. It’s taking some time because I am writing most of my own modules to cater to what I need.

The touch part works really well!!! I’m thinking between @strawberry-3-141 voice module and the touch this is working quite well and really fast.

As for OpenHab I will be using that for the thermostat as the guys that built it use it for their interface…
https://hestiapi.com/

I have not seen any plans with OpenHab yet. I really just haven’t had time to sit down and look at it the way I should. To get the thermostat to talk to the mirror I will have to use MQTT with OpenHab… Can’t wait to get it working!!! :)

Right now the version I have is the non American version but they are working out the bugs and will get it working for the US soon :) .

Do you have experience with OpenHab?

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/25174https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/25174Mon, 10 Jul 2017 22:13:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A thin MM with metal frame, hidden IR camera and 32" Inch HDTV on Mon, 10 Jul 2017 20:06:37 GMT]]>@cowboysdude Thank you!
I’m very curious how well the touch will work.

If I understand correctly, do you want to build a command panel?
Have you ever looked at OpenHab? This is also open source and designed for the control of a smart home.

If I’m not deceived, there are even modules that show the location plans of Openhab in the Magic Mirror. Have you seen them?

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/25168https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/25168Mon, 10 Jul 2017 20:06:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A thin MM with metal frame, hidden IR camera and 32" Inch HDTV on Mon, 10 Jul 2017 14:46:47 GMT]]>@SvenSommer Is used the Samsung J5205. It was one of only two Samsung 32" TVs available to me.

I thought about using a 40" UHD TV for the pixel density, but it would have doubled the cost of the TV, and I was unsure if / how well the raspberry pi would handle the high resolution. I ended up building mine 1.5 meters tall, with the TV in the top half. Works out nicely, although I have it engage into screensaver mode when idle, so it acts as a piece of moving art on the wall. It would be AMAZING to use the full height for the screen.

Maybe I’ll build a V2 at some point to tackle this…

In any case, I love your metal frame, and how thin you manages to keep yours. Mine is about double the thickness, and it’s HEAVY! (about 22kg) I originally had the same idea as you to mount the TV like normal and hang the mirror off if it, but once I realized how heavy this was, I didn’t think the TV frame could support it. so I ended up screwing the mounting bracket supports to the frame itself, which in turn further pushes it out from the wall another 2-3 cm.

Great job!

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/25161https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/25161Mon, 10 Jul 2017 14:46:47 GMT