Halloween mirror ghouls anyone?

Mr.Meeseeks

I watched the new ghost busters and loved those mirror ghouls: https://youtu.be/Icfi2m7fHtk
And wanted to know if anyone has had Halloween fun with their mirrors?

Also saw this, perhaps to try maybe motion or light off triggered:
https://youtu.be/mvWHD2ZTes0
Pretty impressive effects!

Mr.Meeseeks

Maybe I’ll make my first MMM
… Monster Mirror Module?

bhepler

I like this idea! It would be pretty simple to buy one of those DVDs, rip the video you want and then load it onto your mirror. Play the image in a module, possibly with some basic timer & looping controls.

I would think some of the ghostly apparition ones would work best. Just have something staring at you out of the mirror for a bit and then fade away.

zombi27

I like it! What about the zombie invasion DVD on the MM, every day when a new Walking Dead episode is online on netflix? :D

Jopyth

Excellent idea, we still have a month to finish this, so it is ready for Halloween. ;)

Would be best, if we can avoid the proprietary content though, and find something that can be distributed together with the module free for everyone to use.

Mitchfarino

Is anyone working on this?

Jopyth

I am not (yet :) ), but this seems to be a good starting place:

Fullscreen Backgound Video
Demo page

Mitchfarino

@Jopyth Awesome!

We’re hosting a Halloween party, so this would be great to have running through the night!

bhepler

Do we have a generic video file playing module?

Jopyth

@bhepler We’ve got this: https://github.com/ptrbld/MMM-Podcast

Who can animate the ghosts? :)

Mr.Meeseeks

I’m hunting for anything we can use, here is another paid product, pretty sweet though since it’s in a format for being displayed as a door window, similar to our mirror.
So still good for looking at ideas, but nothing free yet…
https://www.hi-rezdesigns.com/store/home.php?cat=263

Mitchfarino

@Mr.Meeseeks Does it have to be a video?

Why can’t we just load a gif?

http://giphy.com/search/grave-encounters

Edit: or a collection of gifs on a loop?

Jopyth

@Mitchfarino But how are our ghosts staying in HD-Quality with a gif?

Ok, joke aside, gif might also be a good option. But I still think the main thing is to find a video or gif, that actually look decent on the mirror. Without stuff in the background, and maybe something like a fade in and fade out movement.

rvdgeer

@Jopyth I have found something that’s exactly that:
A ghost, doing scary stuff, fading in and out on a black background and that stays mostly within an invisible portrait frame…

Unfortunately it’s not free, so I can’t share it…
But if we have some sort of video player we can use, I would certainly love to try to get it to work…
I tried MMM-Podcast, but realised it needs a button, wired to the Pi and I don’t have nor want that…

Jopyth

Well we would need to change MMM-Podcast, to basically play the video always and then maybe show/hide this with MMM-Module-Scheduler.

Still a custom module might be better here, since we do not want to waste resources, by playing a hidden video all the time, maybe I have time to put something together this weekend.

rvdgeer

@Jopyth How about the helloworld module just to add the needed html tags to display video?
(Obviously just for testing purposes…)

Mitchfarino

@Jopyth www.reddit.com/r/HighQualityGifs

McSorley

Link it up with a PIR sensor with some bluetooth speakers and you could give someone a nasty fright!!

Jopyth

@rvdgeer Good idea.

If anyone wants to see how this looks (with a gif it is pretty simple):

		{
			module: "helloworld",
			position: "fullscreen_below",
			config: {
				text: "<img src='https://thumbs.gfycat.com/DiscreteDenseCockroach-size_restricted.gif' alt='GIF test' style='position:absolute; top:100%; left:50%; transform: translate(-50%, -100%); width:100%;'>"
			}
		},

rvdgeer

I did sudo apt-get install omxplayer and included a video using <video> tags in the helloworld module.
It works great!

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