@Sean There should be a calibration tool with all sorts of touch-methods, where you define at least three points on the screen so the drivers can calculate where you actually touch and not only a default setting.

@thiagolocatelli Well, all you would do is disperse a lot of settings/options in to each module instead of having the settings centralized in one file as it is now.

however, a “scraper” script would be good for the newbies, i.e a script that scans the modules folder, adds each module and retrieves all config-defaults from each module and puts it all in a new config file.

This way you will get all the settings that can be changed within the module (since every module has it’s own) readily displayed in the right format just for the user to alter.

@johnnyboy if you do a good seem on the outside and grind it down flush I think it still would have enough bond left to hold the frame together.

I’m going all epoxy glue and hope it holds, my 120x60cm 6mm mirror also has a bit of weight :D

I went with a 15x40mm aluminium L profile, inside that I’ll glue a wooden mdf frame to the profiles so I’m counting on that the amount of glued surface will make it hold together.

I have the profiles glued to the mirror as of now, and hopefully I will have the mdf frame made and bonded today.

Here is a potato picture of the frame now :

Quick note, I’m not going to apply glue on the side with the coating since I was told by my Glass guy that some coating and some glues doesn’t like each other, didn’t want to risk it. Even if the coated side have slightly better reflection propertys.

@lolobyte
Here is a documentation of markdown :
http://commonmark.org/help/

I would strongly recommend that you use audio out from the monitor compared to the audio out on the raspberry (it suffers from a lot of signal noise).

Using BT makes it digital and you rely more on the hardware of the BT speakers/amp.

@Beh Maybe a setup page for the MM config file,

basically just a script that runs just like the MM page (maybe could be started with npm start config?)
where you could access a list of modules (retrieved from an “official” module list that has the right format),

And when the module is selected and “install” is clicked the page does the git clone process, npm install and adds the configuration fields to the config.js file according to the instructions gotten from the module list. (all default settings except for location which the user should select before he is able to install the module).

Since the format of the config for all modules are more or less the same it shouldn’t be that difficult to have the page retrieve the different config variables from the modules and display it in a more userfriendly way (ie input fields on a html page instead of sorting out the “code”).

Because let’s face it, most of the “troubleshooting” for new users are config file related errors (a comma missing or using wrong quotation marks, placing the module code outside the module list etc etc)

Shouch a solution would probably not require a rewrite of any MM base code, it would just be a standalone addition.
But it would require a compatible modules list with a strict format.

@Mykle1 Because the garage is full with other motorcycles … ;)

@PhilsterM9 in Magicmirror directory, enter config directory via cd config
While in the config directory type cp config.js.sample config.js

After that type dir you should now see two files listed, one config.sample.js and one config.js

Now you have a working config file and should be able to start the magicmirror

@aandrew7 capacitive touch (which is the most commonly used touch tech at the moment) is reading changes in the electromagnetic field of the touch matrix caused by say your finger.

This means that ANY material that is conductive will disable the touch functionality.
This is why capacitive touch works through glass, wood and paper etc

Most mirrors (regular and two-ways) rely on some sort of metal coating to get the reflection properties and this is what disable the capacitive touch.

For the diy home user the best way to get touch on a magicmirror is by using IR touch, or something like the airbar, but that has limited functionality at the moment.

My bad, it isn’t font awesome for the weather module. The icons gets gathered from the openweather api :

https://openweathermap.org/weather-conditions