https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/6061/which-screen-for-magic-mirror/7

Get a VA panel monitor with high contrast, built in speakers will save you space if you need sound, it won’t sound any good (as if they do anyway) built in behind a mirror, but it will work. And a bonus you don’t need any external soundcard or filter to reduce noise on the pie’s 3.5mm outlet since you will take it via the hdmi port.

IPS panels are a waste behind a mirror, you don’t need that color accuracy which is the main benefit of IPS.

I would say the BenQ, since it is VA and has headphone outlet (3.5mm) so you could use that audio output to run speaker/speakers.

@dæmoneyes air circulation, screens gets hot, nothing to do about that, but either you have a mirror frame that has a larger air volume or you make holes, top and bottom, to let air circulate around everything.

@michmich

What if we try this link?

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=G5D8E9MR5DTD2&source=url&lc=US

@michmich

The link sends you to a paypal site with dutch language,

Not a big deal, but should be English as default :)

Edit : And also, Donated ofc!

@anhanyoung

basically it’s registers the location of an object (i.e your finger) when an infrared light beam is disrupted.
So the ir frame goes on the outside of the mirror.

Search for touch in the forum, it has been covered many times.

But the basic is that you need an ir-frame to get touch functionality.

@sdetweil

I’m sorry, but are you expecting even more of Mitch than he already has given? Personally I think he is well worth a donation without asking anything more from him.

Domain name costs money, webhosting costs money. Especially if you have a lot of traffic and need reliable service (trust me, the cheap web hosts may offer " unlimited bandwith" but that is rarely the case in reality).

If he gets more funds over what the pure running costs is, then kudos to him. He can maybe take some time off work and adress fixes and improvements. (You get more done on a 10h day than a 2h day). But this is (for me at least) not a demand. As long as the donations first and foremost goes to keeping this forum and the repository online, any left overs Mitch can do whatever he wants with.

And, “one time” donations is the better choice in my opinion. Just don’t do the awful nagging that wikipedia did/does. (I donate, but I wan’t to do it on my terms).

And a title that says “sponsor” is the best option (with a 1 year time limit) as a “reward”.

@jng

For a well lit/daylight you want a light transmission of 30-40%.

A normal lit room with no direct light from windows I would say 20%

Pretty much depends,

If you have a large mirror (over 100x100cm) i would argue for a thicker glass, the idea is that it’s more stable/rigid.
otherwise I’d say 4mm due to weight.

But the thickness doesn’t have any noticable impact on the reflection or light-transmission (the coating is only on one side anyways)

@grasshopper001

https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_i.asp

Free? Open source?

The fact that you can have a lot more background services then just with a regular webpage?

Just the fact that you can easily connect the gpio of a pie to a MM2 module.

@bibi It’s on hold, the big drawback is that I haven’t included space for any sensor in the frame, so any addon would “stick out” and look wonky.
So maybe I’ll just add some physical buttons and make a tree style menu instead.

@bibi fan controllers are cheap.

or get 5v fans?

or just a 12v supply with a relay that reacts to the 3v/5v output of the raspberrys gpio …

or just a relay if you already have the 12v supply.

Sounds like you are having internet access issues

@n3fasto your google drive isn’t open for the public. So your pictures doesn’t work.

Sorry to say that this forum is for the open source MM2 software not locked business software such as the fotomasters or photoboots.

There might be one or two that has experience with those, but I’m quite positive most of us don’t.

@txajay they are only as big as the modules, they change after the content. You have to specifically add width/height to the regions to make it work like you intend.

If a div is empty it doesn’t take up space.

Thickness doesn’t really matter.

But no, you can’t get glass that works perfectly in all lighting conditions, you basically have to decide where the mirror goes and choose type frome there.

My usual recommendations are :

Dark rooms, with limited/dimmed lighting go with 4-10% light transmission (not really recommeded at all, but this limits bleed through of the monitors backlight). Here you have the mirropane series that has models from 3% (chrome), 8% (chrome spy) and regular mirropane at 10%. And do note the chrome series has a “darker” reflection than mirroview that is brighter/more silver.

Normal lit rooms, without direct sunlight go with 12-20% light transmission (sweet spot is 12% when balancing readability and backlight bleed through).
Here you can find the regular pilkington mirroview at aprox. 20%

Public rooms, with much daylight or brightly lit places I would go with 30-50% light transmission, the drawback is however that you often see the screen behind it really clearly and thus loses much of the magic. But as you have noticed, practically it has to be around 50% to be used in daylight, or as stated above, just as a “hidden” tv. Here you get the mirroview 50/50.

A quck “fix” for low lighttransmission is to bulk up the text and symbols (use bold in a large font), it helps a little.

And when it comes to the reflection % get as high as possible, a normal mirror has about 85-98% reflection. Most two way mirrors has around 60%, often lower. Reflection is oftenly not considered when building a smart mirror, but it should be.