Took a little tweaking but here is 7" monitor and Pi in a combo case/stand. Should work well.

@sdetweil Just wanted to pass on that have two iterations of the default weather module running. One for “current” and one for forecast using weathergov as my data source. Appears I can do away with weatherEndpoint on both with no ill effects.

There is a NWS API Page that runs through an example. Follow example using the appropriate gps coordinates for your location. In my screen capture you see /gridpoints/CAE/70,67/forecast/hourly which relates to my local NWS radar at CAE which is local airport. I do not think this will work for people trying to get finer resolution via someone’s weather station who is uploading their data to a 3rd party provider.

I have seen the CURRENT forecast drop out infrequently but it has always come back on its own.

Daily forecast.

Current Forecast

MagicMirror Output

@sdetweil Wasn’t in vain. Thanks for the help. Image pretty washed out in photo but have some opacity and gradient and looks better in person.

Put this together by fits and starts.
Radar weather image, weather forecast and weather current are from weather.gov or National Weather Service (radar image)

A while back I posted that if you were using the National Weather Service and noticed it had quit, that was due to a lack of funds to purchase a piece of hardware that was long overdue for replacement.

New Year, new hardware.
You can pull multi-day or current so it is now up and running.

@bugsounet I have been idle in the Magic Mirror end of things and came across that MM ad by accident.
But I have been rehabilitating a 3d printer I bought and part of that has been installing some software, Klipper and Mainsail OS and something came up on their Discord which is potentially germane to Magic Mirror project.

One of the larger manufacturers of printers, Creality, came out with a sort of pre-configured tablet style device to run their printers. It has Klipper under the pretty cover and Klipper is open source, so according to one of the prime maintainers of Klipper, Creality is supposed to make their rendition of Klipper available based on the usage license but that is his battle to fight if he so desires.

The other point though is the part that I see as a somewhat double edged sword.
The version of Klipper in the Creality product is apparently an older buggy version of Klipper. The Klipper maintainer commented to the Discord at large that "good luck getting Creality to troubleshoot their own product which I can relate to, as I bought one of their products and there is no documentation or support from Creality. The same may apply to people that buy a Waveshare Magic Mirror. Who helps when a purchaser messes it up. Sam and the other helpful folks on the MM Forum, or Waveshare? Especially if it is an outdated version of MM they are selling.

If you want more people making Magic Mirrors you could facilitate that by getting Magic Mirror on to the Raspberry Pi Imager. I was flabbergasted to see DAKBOARD on the Imager as a downloadable Pi image. Flabergasted because I found MM by way of Dakboard which is the lamest MM Clone you could imagine for a monthly fee no less

@drphil02 As someone who started with Dakboard and switched to MM, I think Dakboard is garbage. The number of modules is miniscule compared to MM
I rently looked at Dakboard site again and still garbage. Very little you can do with Dakboard because you can’t look under the hood so to speak. MM you can.
Oh, did I mention their customer serive is non-existent?
MM has tons of modules and an outstanding group of folks to help you through the rough patches.

Set Up a Dakboard and an MM and run them side by side for a while. Set up Dakboard with the tiny amount of modules they have, then set up a MM with a variety of modules it has available.
Dakboard is just a way to liberate some money from your wallet I can get in a Ford Focus and have it all figured out in a day.
I get in a Porsche and it takes a week to get my arms around the controls but in the end Dakboard is a Ford Focus. MM a Porsche.!

Not exactly a mirror but does what I want it to do.

@harney That pictured MM is :thumbs_up: :thumbs_up:
Thank You.

@sdetweil I added some text and link to API page to better describe and locate the NWS API example. People should be better able to understand how to make that work.

@sdetweil I’ve done that. I intend to follow-up with those folks tomorrow. There are a few NWS API pages that indicate what options are available and while they show various iterations of Forecast, Current is not in the list. They have the api set where you can plug in GPS coordinates, the NWS office that manages those GPS coordinates and it will generate the https address so you just plug it into the module. That is what I did a few years ago when I first built that MM.
I am going to look at Observations options at bottom of the picture to see if the have changed the format.

I am using the default weather module and accessing the Weather.gov option to give me both the current weather and the forecast using “current” and forecast options. They are stacked one above the other.
About a month ago the “current” option quit working and I am leaning toward NWS changing the API to a different term. Does anyone have experience with that module using weather.gov as who they are pulling the data from that might have some insight?

I am in the process of getting an older MM up to date and doing some tweaking of individual modules while I am at it.
When I load config.js file into VS Code, it looks like two instances of Code launch but the Pi appears to lock up and become unresponsive and I have to toggle power to get it to reset.
I say “it looks like” because the locked up Pi shows two instances of Code in the Pi OS version of the task bar.
The mirror runs fine, does what it is supposed to do, and I can edit the config file in one of the other editors with no issues.
I did uninstall and reinstall Code but that did not help.

@sdetweil Thank You

Hello folks
It’s been a while since I’ve built a new MM and was looking at Sam’s installation script on Github. Down a bit is a section about other browsers. I had never heard of Midori so Googled it and on Wikipedia there is the following text.

In 2019, the Midori project was acquired by the Astian Foundation.[7][8] After the acquisition, the project became a derivative of the Firefox browser.[9]

Can anyone opine on this as I do not want to go down some browser rabbit hole. The Github dates for Midori are very old and the links that point to Astian.org as a source for the code are spitting out a 404 error.
I am assuming this is optional to use as a browser within MM.
It seems like Midori has died and maybe just to use Firefox rather than a Firefox derivative (Midori)??

@sdetweil Thanks, I do appreciate it.
Are you supporting Wayland going forward and just letting the old [name I can’t remember] wither away to old app/process heaven?

That was good where you and the other current administrators put together that list of modules that were no longer maintained. Saw Mykle’s name in there which is too bad. He provided me with some good guidance on occasion.

Magic Mirrors are going to be my Christmas gifts this year so time to get cracking!!

Since it has been about a century since I’ve built a MM, the most important keystroke combo which is to toggle Fullscreen mode on and off that I used no longer works.
What is the current set of keys or specific key I need to use to get the MM out of fullscreen. Pi 5 w 8GB

@sdetweil You’ve got that right. I think the model you all are using is on the spot. Whether it is the Magic Mirror or those folks doing open source operating systems and front-ends for 3d printers you kind of have to be a tinkerer at heart and while companies think they can make money by filling a niche for people who aren’t tinkerers, I think they will find it more of a challenge than they realize.

I have to go to a doctor every month and chatting with one of the PA’s it turns out he has same 3d printer as me. He has never run it. He assembled it but did not know it was on him to compile/configure the software. It is a massive paperweight as of last time I asked.

Same with these Magic Mirrors. It’s on the person who builds it to configure it to their personal liking. When you first install the basic package, that’s just the start.

I was looking to see if I could use a stylus on a Pi 7" touchscreen and and in poking around various sellers of these small screens came across that Waveshare deal.

@bugsounet I have been idle in the Magic Mirror end of things and came across that MM ad by accident.
But I have been rehabilitating a 3d printer I bought and part of that has been installing some software, Klipper and Mainsail OS and something came up on their Discord which is potentially germane to Magic Mirror project.

One of the larger manufacturers of printers, Creality, came out with a sort of pre-configured tablet style device to run their printers. It has Klipper under the pretty cover and Klipper is open source, so according to one of the prime maintainers of Klipper, Creality is supposed to make their rendition of Klipper available based on the usage license but that is his battle to fight if he so desires.

The other point though is the part that I see as a somewhat double edged sword.
The version of Klipper in the Creality product is apparently an older buggy version of Klipper. The Klipper maintainer commented to the Discord at large that "good luck getting Creality to troubleshoot their own product which I can relate to, as I bought one of their products and there is no documentation or support from Creality. The same may apply to people that buy a Waveshare Magic Mirror. Who helps when a purchaser messes it up. Sam and the other helpful folks on the MM Forum, or Waveshare? Especially if it is an outdated version of MM they are selling.

If you want more people making Magic Mirrors you could facilitate that by getting Magic Mirror on to the Raspberry Pi Imager. I was flabbergasted to see DAKBOARD on the Imager as a downloadable Pi image. Flabergasted because I found MM by way of Dakboard which is the lamest MM Clone you could imagine for a monthly fee no less

Talk about brazen.
https://www.waveshare.com/product/raspberry-pi/laptop/all-in-one/13.3inch-magic-mirror-c4.htm