Hrm. Images are sometimes uploading and sometimes not. Anyhow, I’ll keep trying.

A picture of the finished product:

And a there is a time lapse video I made of carving out the top & bottom pieces.

This part took forever. I needed a mask to allow me to put paint inside the carved words, but nothing on the CNC would work. The painter’s tape would get ripped up and wrap around the bit. I tried a drag knife and it ended up pulling the tape up rather than cut properly. I ended up cutting the stencil out with my laser cutter. This involved a lot of fiddly bits to get the size & alignment correct. Not going to do this again.

I put a pattern on the side pieces and ended up skipping the paint. They were dark enough for my purposes.

Put the frame pieces together and coat it with shellac to protect it. There are some routed edges that were thrown on at the last minute.

I made another mirror as a gift to my good friends, the Holmes family. This one was inspired by a scare Dad had with his eldest daughter when she decided to skip the school bus home and go to her friend’s house without informing Mom & Dad. He liked the idea of the Weasley Clock module (updates coming soon!) and so I made him a mirror to show the module.

I did a couple new things this time around. I removed the metal box on the back of the monitor in order to save depth. Good idea, but it didn’t leave enough depth for the power plug & switch. So I didn’t save anything.

I put the top & bottom of the facing frame on the CNC and carved out a personal message for his family.

Just a quick update: The OwnTracks app that this module uses for location services has been upgraded and fixed an error in implementation that I was depending upon. Using my MQTT server wouldn’t work.

I have finished my research and the solution right now is to remove the certificate file from the TLS security settings in OwnTracks. I have upgraded my MQTT server with a signed cert from a known CA, so all of your data is still encrypted in transit.

Revised instructions on installing the module - including how to set up your own MQTT server - are coming soon.

Hey guys, the Weasley Clock is my module. I’m glad you got it working with your own MQTT server. The plan is to include instructions on how to do this. But I’m glad that you got it running for you.

If you have suggestions or better yet, a pull request, I’m all ears.

Do not try to connect to my MQTT server. Short version: It’s broken and I’m working on fixing it. It’s not you, it’s me.

Long version: The module relied upon an poor implementation of OwnTracks with regards to TLS encryption. The latest version of OwnTracks fixed the implementation, so the module stopped working. Essentially, I need to figure out a better way of distributing the authorization key with the module.

I have a fix in progress. I’ll let you know when I get it up & running.

Updated 2021-09-13

Thanks goes to @eouia for the many changes.

REMOVED Removing dependency of dying momentJS
ADDED config.monthMap : Now you can define keywords per month. (It could be the replacement of config.hemisphere). You can set winter christmas santa-clause as keyword for December. Or you can set spring to March, April, May.
ADDED config.externalCollections : separated collections data to external file.
ADDED config.size is added. you can set pictures original dimension by this value. (this value is not for cropping. Rather for resolution optimizing.)
CHANGED Default weather module source - weather is added.
REMOVED Obsoleted weather module source - currentweather is removed.
ADDED CSS controllable. Now you can control the style(CSS selector .WTHBGR) more comfortably.
CHANGED Current collection list was too huge and not maintained. Now Collection fallback is supported. When the module cannot find a proper collection, the keyword searching would be alternated instead.
CHANGED Now, collection matching is based on match-score.

@ike-9 - I had assumed that you used pm2 to start the Magic Mirror process. My bad. That’s an installation thing, so no need to introduce something new.

Hmm. Nothing in the logs, nothing in the console? That is bizarre. Let me fire this up and see if I can’t get it to work.

@ike-9 - Have you checked the logs?

From an SSH terminal connected to your mirror, enter pm2 log 0 and it should list the latest log entries for you. Look for any line that reads ERROR.

Presumably, the module will tell you when something goes wrong.

Another possibility is going to a framing store - one that will professionally frame portraits, photos, etc. Take your mirror glass with you and explain that you want a shadow box with the interior dimensions the same as the dimensions of the glass and a frame to match. The depth of the shadow box will be the depth of your monitor, plus 10mm or so for airflow.

They’ll do the custom work for you.

The only information that is unique to my mirror is the module configuration. I just back up the config.js file whenever I make a change to the mirror configuration. If the mirror needs to be rebuilt, I can quickly build a slick Buster installation, SSH into the Pi, run the installation script, drop the backup config.js to the config folder and then do a half-dozen git clone commands.

Once the mirror is up & running, I can do the boring maintenance stuff (apt get update && apt get upgrade) and just let it run in the background.