Snilles Magic Mirror Project

[grillchips]

Great to hear how it works! First time with a touch frame/panel for me so I’m a bit nervous.
This is what they sent me:
“Thanks for your inquiry. Yes, 27 inch and above size , we can send without glass. 21.5inch and 24inch, We need to send glass.”

Really doesn’t tell why but I guess it doesn’t matter then… :D

[Snille]

@grillchips I don’t get the answer you got… Maybe they want to sell you a glass? :) Anyway, here is the store I bought mine from: https://www.aliexpress.com/store/922495?spm=a2g0s.9042311.0.0.9vCMC5
I think they have “all” the sizes. :)

[grillchips]

Yeah I have no idea what they’re talking about first. After a few further questions they linked me to the correct size but still with glass. Seems like smaller sizes need it while larger doesn’t…?
I also realized that the touch screen prices has gone up quite a lot lately, dammit. 1300SEK for the one I need. Oh well.
“Ingen minns en fegis” :)

[korevaartje]

Hi Snille,

i am currently trying to copy you setup but at the moment i am stuck.

somehow i cant get the .png’s to show up.

i have created a folder within the file structure of magicmirror called backgrounds . Here i save all images needed , placed my own icons and adressed correctly, i think.

are your png’s stored localy on the pi or remotly on a server?

is my way of adressing correct?

kind regards,

Jay

[Snille]

Hi @korevaartje, If I remember correctly you need to use a URL to the picture. You cant use a “local” path. I’m currently loading all the pictures from an “internal” web server (that I use for lot’s of other stuff as well). And that made it easy to switch the pictures without having to change anything on the actual MM.

I hope that clarify’s it. :)

[ceddirr]

@korevaartje ,
Personally I put my pictures on the css directory, and here is how I load them:

				"Cedric": {
					img: "/css/cedric.jpg",
					width: 60,
					height: 60
				},

And every day I do a rsync save of the css directory, and the conf directory as well to my NAS server.

[Snille]

Added a video (two years later): https://youtu.be/2Hi9IDfrqPQ
The Mirror is used daily and I have upgraded from a RPi 3 to a NUC instead to get more CPU-Power to play with. :)

[cowboysdude]

Looks AWESOME! Great job!

[DennisFaucher]

Wow. Impressive. Thank you for providing so much detail in your post.

[Snille]

Updated almost all information about this project. My Mirror has been the “information HUB” (together with HA) of the family for many years now!
Even the rest of the family(!) thinks it’s good!

If you want to know more, ask away! :)