Probably going to use and try it out first. So it’s true film only works in the day?

Does anybody know if the film only works in the day? My local supplier told me that it will only work as mirror in the day due to sunlight. Thoughts?

I don’t suppose the people put background images when building a mirror mirror? I only see background images for dashboard style. Those with mirror are more of text wording?

Any idea how it would be like with background images for mirror?

@sdetweil 1. thanks, i always thought its the back of the glass/plastic where the monitor goes into. just for clarity, lcd goes to the back of the glass/plastic then the other side of the glass/plastic (front facing human) is where the film is ya?

2. actual monitor size. im actually thinking of just chucking the entire monitor into the glass and wall mount it and be done with it based on what i seen online. i supposed alot of people are using a full glass/plastic/mirror but the lcd is a small section of the overall frame? hence the ‘digital’ section is just within the size of the lcd panel.

Theres something i dont quite get is assuming the film at the front. the font is where you see the mirror and cant see whats beneath (so if i attached the entire monitor behind it, the bezel cannot be seen). Then in this instance, since whatever is behind cant be seen, how does the lcd showcase the wording outwards?

yes i actually did. i did see some wire connector and some cpu board (i think its specifically for laptop? not sure).

hi all
im finally thinking of building a mirror and i really need some guidance here as this is really not my expertise.

i noticed back in the days, people are using ikea ribba photo frame because the front is made of glass instead of plastic (now). I am trying to source in my market if theres a used glass ribba, thereafter, install a flim to it.

Lets assume the above is not possible, i may potentially ask a vendor to custom make a 2 way mirror frame.

the monitor i have is philips 243v7qjab.

i have some questions here:

1. if i go the film route, where should the film be installed? in front of the glass or behind? and the monitor screen goes behind the glass directly and ill have to glue the glass to the lcd panel?
2. based on past thread, people are buy 50x70 ribba. but my 24inch monitor goes around 53x32. this would not fit the ribba directly. i see alot of video indicating that the panel and glass has to be the same measurement. so how does this work?
3. any special tools equipment that i need?

By any chance you can ship to singapore?

ill be damned. managed to get it to work using this after some searching

Edit the “config.txt” in the “/boot” directory.

Go to:

“# Enable DRM VC4 V3D driver
dtoverlay=vc4-kms-v3d
max_framebuffers=2”

And change “dtoverlay=vc4-kms-v3d” to “dtoverlay=vc4-fkms-v3d”.

There is a bug in the “vc4-kms-v3d” driver.

After changing in the “config.txt” “vcgencmd display_power 0” returns a “display_power=0”.

@sdetweil hello
lsb_release -a returns -
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Raspbian
Description: Raspbian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
Release: 11
Codename: bullseye

uname -a returns-
Linux pi-mirror 6.1.21-v7+ #1642 SMP Mon Apr 3 17:20:52 BST 2023 armv7l GNU/Linux

raspberyy pi 3b+

which one should i use and can you advise me on the code please?

Hi all

Can I know what are the solution to schedule on off monitor for the magic mirror?
I’m trying mmm remote control but it’s either I’m doing it wrongly or it doesn’t seems like it’s working.

Appreciate any help please

@MMRIZE if I change to rpi 4 or 5 will that helps?
I put in the calendar and google photo (yes managed to resolve installation issue) and it’s laggy like mad.

By any chance you have solution for point 1)?

will a pi4 or pi5 fix the slowness issue?

@MMRIZE thanks for the explanation. I will give this a shot. But does this mean if the text is too long it won’t move anymore? I kinda like the animation tho. Is this then a hardware limitation and I need to get something better?

@MMRIZE sorry I’m not very good at this… could you provide more context on where and how should I do this and why?

Hi all

just built a rpi3b+ on a monitor and am facing some issue here. appreciate some assistance.

1. how do i schedule monitor on off based on time? i tried tvservice and vcgencmd as cron job but both doesnt work. i installed remote control and module scheduler with the code below but the problem is i cant seem to simulate them instantly now. like for the code below, i saw in the log it says event notification will happen for the next day…?

 {
      module: 'MMM-Remote-Control'
      // uncomment the following line to show the URL of the remote control on the mirror
      // , position: 'bottom_left'
      // you can hide this module afterwards from the remote control itself
    },

   {
        module: 'MMM-ModuleScheduler',
        config: {
            notification_schedule: [
                // TURN THE MONITOR/SCREEN ON At 10:00
                {notification: 'REMOTE_ACTION', schedule: '00 10 * * *', payload: {action: "MONITORON"}},
                // TURN THE MONITOR/SCREEN OFF At 00:00 
                {notification: 'REMOTE_ACTION', schedule: '00 00 * * *', payload: {action: "MONITOROFF"}}
            ]
        }
   }

2. i have mmm calendar ext3 installed. the mirror seems to be lagging quite badly. the text that is hovering from right to left in the calendar is not smooth but rather stuttering. not sure why?

3. cant install mmm googlephoto. my installation keep getting stuck at timing reifyNode:node_modules/moment Completed in 14044ms.

appreciate any advise please!

just to give an update to my earlier post.
i manage to get the browser to show mm on my phone but not my ipad. could this be an issue of old safari browser or something along those line?

i set mirror config ip to pc ip address, ipwhitelist []…
pc webbrowser via ip address and electron works. but using ipad via ipaddress of pc, it shows black screen. terminal show fetching module. so it seems like its working but black screen…?

@sdetweil but if I weee to rotate my screen, my entire screen will be vertical, including my terminal which is not what I want. My main computer screen is where I work on the git cmd and I open up another browser in the same screen monitor. Is there any way to just rotate the browser showing the mm?

hi im currently testing out MM using GIT CMD and opening my view in web browser local host. are there any way to rotate the view to vertical? all various article and guide seems to point towards a rpi rotation and not a windows version.

help appreciated. thanks.

Sorry guys it’s getting too technical for my limited understanding.

I don’t have a pi yet. I’m on a pc with the git cmd, how do I “cast” to the tv/monitor?

When I subsequently get a pi, how do I uh ssh from pc to pi?

Is there like a 101 guide to both above?

@sdetweil thanks so much bruh. Couple of more questions if you don’t mind…

1. so I can use my tv, go into the browser and enter local host:8080 and I’m in? Assuming they are on the same network. Otherwise what would the web link be? I don’t suppose being on a different network works?

2. in future when I setup the pi, I’ll have to install everything on the sd card and put into the pi. And the pi is behind the wall display… so assuming 1 fine day I would like to make changes, how do I go about doing it since I can’t use the terminal on my pc to make the changes?
   Do I have to take the pi out from the wall display, connect the pi to another monitor and do my edits in the other monitor? Or does the pi on the wall display allow me to do edits? How do people go about doing this, I just can’t wrap my head around this…