Thank you for this. Great work.

A smart toothbrush? We truly do live in an age of wonders.

@RE_Magic_Mirror The best way to keep your mirror running is to install a screensaver and then configure the screensaver to never run. Yeah, it’s a bit weird.

Install the screensaver program: sudo apt-get install xscreensaver

Once you do, start your Pi and get to the desktop. If you have already configured your Pi to start the Magic Mirror interface, click ctrl+q to exit. Open the menu by clicking on the Raspberry start button with your mouse, or clicking the special/window key on your keyboard. Go to Preferences and there should be a new entry called “Screen Saver”. Click/Press enter to activate the screen saver configuration.

On the configuration screen, there is a drop-down box with options as to which screen saver you wish to run. I believe the default is “random screensaver”. Navigate to this drop down box and select “disable screensaver”. Close the screen saver configurations window.

That’s it. That should keep your Pi from going black.

Description:

Inspired by the location clock from the Harry Potter movies and a nifty Instructable, this module displays the location of your family members. Working with an open source location app on your phone, it will update your mirror to display where you are.

If you haven’t seen the movies, there is a grandfather clock in a house that doesn’t tell time, but rather tells the viewer the location of each member of the household. Each hand represents a family member and the hand rotates as that member changes location.

As your phone changes location, it will enter regions that you define and update the mirror. The module will then rotate the hand associated with that phone to point to the name of the region (and make a quiet “bong” noise). The module recognizes when you are traveling and if you lose connection. Locations can be different for each family member and locations are only limited by screen real estate (number of people is capped at seven)

Screenshots:

There’s also a table mode if you don’t have a lot of space on your mirror.

Download:

[card:BrianHepler/MMM-WeasleyClock]

Github Link

Version 1.0.0

• Initial Release
• Configurable locations, people

To Do

• Configurable positioning of hands and locations
• Better graphics on hands, locations. Optional clock face.
• Configurable sounds
• Push locations to phones
• Third display style

@twillster My suggestion is to look into portable Bluetooth speakers. Something thin with decent dynamic range. Either mount them in the cabinet or just keep them nearby. The Pi 3 has bluetooth onboard and you could use that instead of trying to rig up something hardwired.

@Sparkie579 - UK can be specified by putting “United Kingdom” in the config. I don’t think there is one for the EU as a whole. But you can specify the countries in the EU.

You can go to the Johns Hopkins page and see the list of countries that it tracks. Use those names in the left column if you need to look up particular spelling & variations (UK vs United Kingdom vs Britain vs England).

@robiv8 - Data in an excel spreadsheet is useful for calculating values and displaying them. The difficulty in using a Magic Mirror to display such values is that you now have to transfer the excel file to the Magic Mirror so it can be read by the module. (You can get around this by making the file available over the network and telling the mirror to look at a specific network path).

You also have to write some sort of interpretation to pull the data out of Excel and display it on the screen. If you just wish to display a spreadsheet, this isn’t too difficult. Things get complicated when you want to extract only certain parts of that spreadsheet (such as computed totals). Excel doesn’t store total values in the cells, it stores formulas. Just displaying the contents on the mirror results in values that look like =$AE+SUM(B3..B14)

The preferred way of doing these things is to make the computed data available via a web API and then use the Magic Mirror to query the API and display the values. That module has already been written.

@RE_Magic_Mirror I don’t think there is a problem, no. I haven’t done any research on the topic, but I believe the lightdm.conf file was deprecated around the time the Wheezy version of the Raspian operating system was released. At least… changes to that file on Wheezy didn’t seem to have the desired effect. That continued on Jessie.

Okay, I have completed my first pass at fixing the WiFi symbol. It works for me, so let’s see how it goes for you.

If you’re not using my repository, you’ll have to switch by deleting your modules/internet-monitor folder, cloning from my repository at https://github.com/BrianHepler/internet-monitor and then installing like normal. You’ll have to cd internet-monitor and then npm install.

If you’re already using my repository, just cd MagicMirror/modules/internet-monitor and git pull. It will probably tell you that you need to stash package-lock.json. Just delete that file and try again.

Warning: The custom WiFi icon doesn’t work yet. I got the default one to show up, but I’m still working on the one with the custom colors. But right now I want to verify that you guys can at least see the WiFi icon.

Just FYI - I added a string of LEDs that are powered by a USB socket last night. Installed 'em under the edge of the frame, pointing towards the wall. My wife picked them up on sale for some reason. They plugged right in to the USB slot on the travel charger. Now they switch on along with the mirror.