@BKeyport Just to reiterate what @BKeyport said, the Mirror part of Magic Mirror doesn’t do justice to the multitude of projects and designs people come up with.
You want to put your calendar/schedule where you can see it and be reminded of things you need to do, Magic Mirror.
Want a visual display of the weather where you live, Magic Mirror.
Some of the things folks come up with are really exceptional.
BUT… there is more to it than slapping a bunch of blocks (modules) together and done.
Some of these MM’s border on digital art they are so well done.
There is ample help but no one is going to build it for you.
Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
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RE: amber alert module
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RE: MM as Desktop background (for MacOS / Linux)
@MMRIZE I think he sees icons in front of the weather module, doesn’t realize MM is the desktop
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RE: Default weather module question
@boblewis I use weather.gov and look is different.
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RE: Kitchen Dashboard
@boehmch Nice.
Is the assembly on back side so you can pull it forward to gain access to hardware?
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RE: Help with framing!
@whimsicality I would suggest someone that does cabinetry and I would never have thought of it but I think a good frame shop would also be a good option. People frame flags, and all types of heirlooms and curio’s so they probably can come up with something of the appropriate depth.
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RE: SSD vs Old School Spinning Platter
@mumblebaj Not qualified to answer but will piggyback a comment about an issue that I got into in a year or so back as it relates to these microsd cards.
About a year ago I bought a kit from Raspberry Shake and they wanted to sell me a microSD Card that had their logo on it but amounted to an industrial grade microSD Card. I got curious about the cards because they can be significantly higher priced than a consumer grade card. I came away from that dive down the rabbit hole that they undergo a much more harsh testing/qualification regime than what you would find at your local electronics store.
They are oriented towards industrial applications that might see significant vibration and/or temperature extremes.This is what I bought and for where I have that earthquake detector it is probably extreme overkill but better safe than sorry.
If you are curious about things Raspberry Pi’s get used for every hexagon on the below picture represents a Pi being used as an earthquake detector.
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RE: SSD vs Old School Spinning Platter
@sdetweil Photography must be a hobby. Smart phone pictures wouldn’t take up that kind of space.
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RE: Default weather module question
@earnestrichards Which weather provider are you using?
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RE: SSD vs Old School Spinning Platter
@sdetweil So, if you had a 500 GB HDD or a 240 GB SSD which would you use?
Is there some industry standard as far as creating partitions? Size, Drive letter, etc?Now, I don’t have any expectation that I would get anywhere remotely near the capacity of either style storage device with meaningful data in form of files I want to save so sort of abstract question here.
The below is based on all experience being from Windows 3.1—>Windows 11
ZERO Linux until discovery of MM.
In a dusty corner of my brain I seem to recall something about when a computer is up and running it uses a portion of its storage media to put a running program on. Say you are running a complex Excel spreadsheet, some of that will be in RAM and some will be a chunk of (historically) HDD space. If I’m way screwed up just say “that ain’t how it works” and I’m fine with that.
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RE: SSD vs Old School Spinning Platter
@ankonaskiff17 If I have the big USB drive hard drive or SSD dive I mentioned earlier in this convo, can I create multiple partitions to mimic multiple drives, a small partition to boot Pi from but subsequently the different partitions would represent say c;\ , d;\ etc and just store files folders to different (I guess these would be virtual drives) as I desire? Would just be either the SSD or platter which I’m still debating.
SD Card slot underneath would just be empty