Hi,
Pretty much all of my software is done, but when I start it up, it goes straight to desktop for a few seconds and then finally goes to the magic mirror. Is it normal for the whole setup to take about 90 sec (1.5 min) or is it just me?

I am working on a project that uses the raspberry pi to monitor and control the irrigation of plants. Is there any way to create a custom module for that sole purpose? Anyone who knows please respond because this project’s deadline is creeping up on me.

Thanks! This helps a lot.

Hi all,

I have been using the magic mirror for a couple weeks, and it has occurred to me how great the system really is. As a Muslim , I have to stay on top of all of my religious duties, so I was wondering if there are any other Muslims out there with more tech knowledge than me who are able to develop modules for Muslims such as prayer times ( islamicfinder.org/ ). I also would suggest that different modules be made to help people with their everyday lives. Again, these are only suggestions, but I hope all of you tech savvy people keep doing what you’re doing to make everyone’s life a little bit easier.

Thanks! How do I add it to the config.js file and how do I find my pi’s IP address?

By the way, have you set up motion detection? I am trying to, but I don’t have any idea what to do. Do you know?

At first, I thought I had everything figured out. I soon realized that I need a way to turn it my mirror on and off cleanly. I have found the remote control module, but I don’t completely understand it. Could anyone help me? The only thing I can think of is connecting the main cable with a switch to turn it on and using the remote control to turn it on once I figure things out. Also, how could I set up a PIR sensor?

I have it set up on my raspberry pi 3 too, but I use Ethernet for the whole thing. All I did was go to the menu, and after searching around a bit, I found out how to change the settings for time ( I put EST since I live in the east of the USA). It changed right away. I hope this helps and sorry if it doesn’t.

Cool! Many thanks!

Hi all,

I was wondering if it was possible to incorporate the Amazon Echo Dot into the Magic Mirror. If anyone has any ideas, please tell me.

Does anyone know where I could get a cheap mirror in the US?

Thank you to @chrisfoerg because you are the one to respond to most of my posts. I could not figure this stuff out without the help of you and others as nice as you.

How did you guys manage to change the greeting? That has been giving me trouble lately.

Hi everyone,
I was wondering if anyone could help me change the greeting on my raspberry pi. I don’t like the default greetings

I am also very new to this, but it isn’t that hard once you’ve stay up till 1:00 3 or 4 times. Everything I needed to know was here: https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/236/complete-setup-tutorial/6 @KirAsh4
The section you probably need is under “Installing MirrorMirror2” at the end.
I was able to do everything from the forum until I needed to change the weather settings. For that, I used file manager. It isn’t as hard as it may seem (even though to a newbie like me all of this stuff seems hard). After a long time just playing around with it I finally got the MagicMirror2 app set up with autostart, which has a tutorial at: https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/wiki/Auto-Starting-MagicMirror
I hope this helps. I know how it feels to have no clue of what to do.

Thanks! I think that that will solve my problem. Also, thank you to @MichMich and @KirAsh4 for helping everybody work things out. I wouldn’t be able to do this without you!

That must have been it. I’ll take that into consideration.

Try going here: https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/wiki#default-modules
There is a complete guide to what to do. Click on one of the default modules to learn how to set it up. I am new to all of this, but I hope this helps.

I have had the same problem. Was it necessary to change the file in the config folder to config.js? I never saw that in the tutorial. That might be exactly what I have been missing.

Does anyone know where I could find a cheap two way acrylic sheet? I have been looking all over, but everything seem to be over 40 dollars. Are there any websites that carry them for more reasonable price?