Tha panels themselfs usually isn’t as thick as the total monitor, the electronics are the thick parts, some soldering and new cables and you should be able to move it all to the side inside the cabinet

OLED if you can afford it (due to the fact that it doesn’t has backlight), You have to look att screens with high contrast and where black is really black.

Every traditional screen with back lit panels will have a glow that shines through, all depending on what percentage of light transmission the glass has. Lower light transmission means less light goes through which means that the weaker the light source the less gets through.
And this is where it gets tricky, If you want to remove visible backlight edges you need a low light transmission (like 2-3% low if you have the mirror in a darker room, you would however still see it when the it’s completely dark). But then the text etc would be rally hard to see when the room lights are on.
And if you go in the opposite direction, say like the Pilkington Mirroview 50/50 with 50% light transmission you will most definitely see the backlight edges even in a normal lit room but everything will be visible pretty much like a screen without a mirror in front of it. This is a great option if you are going to have the mirror on display outside or in brightly lit places.

The most easily obtained brand and model, at least in Europe, is the Pilkington Mirroview with a light transmission of 20% which is a good compromise that works in most lighting conditions.

In my opinion 10% light transmission is an ideal number for normal lit rooms with few or no windows, it will minimize backlight edges but still be easily enough to see text that is being displayed. In my country however there is no such option. North Americans does have access to the Pilkington Mirropane (NOT Mirropane chrome) glass that has a light transmission of 11% and it’s the glass I would love to have, but can’t get.

@me2

I know of none, all films and glass I’ve seen all uses metal to create the reflective surface.

@me2 as long as the mirror film, glass or acrylic is free from metal then Capacitive touch works through it.

@M1K3rSz give xinput_calibrator a try : https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=78805

Other than that I can not help you.

Nice work, what brand of mirror did you get? Mirroview?

And Btw… DeWalt, bra skit! ^_^

@mediathreat the custom.css -file already exists and is located in the folder aptly named css

As a side note, And I haven’t tested this myself, but If you are running MM2 on a raspberry, then this will not work well (or at all).

@matrixfox

If the image is in the css folder you don’t specify the entire path (you could but if it’s in the same folder just use the file directly)

It should look like :

body {
background-image: url("background.jpeg");
}

And make sure you are using the correct tags " and not ”

@SouLBusterFr don’t change the module, change the config file.

@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.

@redink if you can, get their SSID and password and enter those in the PI wifi config before delivery.

Personal information, like calendar etc you should just leave the default settings and then help them set up their calendar after first boot up.

So what I’m saying is, leave it as stock as possible (so they can start it up and look at it) after that help them with the personal stuff :)

@Mastermark maybe they have some sort of non metallic mirror coating (foil?)?

there is also an option to activate “description” in the newsfeed module to get more information.
(if the rss-source have put anything in the description that is)

@emlowe yes, position and size is done with css and do need adjusting when used on smaller layouts. Look at the css code in the module for the class names and copy it to you custom.css and then play around with position and size.

@Peter It’s all doable with css.

.region.bottom {
height: 200px;
}

This you add in your custom.css file (outside of body{})

@tomster I have looked at that before, but didn’t want to throw away the money if it didn’t work. How far up does the touch reach? And are you running it with the Raspberry Pi?

@MrCoffee

Access your pi from your main computers browser via http://raspberryip:8080

If you get “device not allowed” you need to alter your ipwhitelist in the config.
There are a couple of threads on how to set it up.
But to just rule out any other issues, try this in your config first and see if you get access to your MM after that :

var config = {
address: "",
port: 8080,
ipWhitelist: [],

//etc etc etc

Why are you running an apache server on your MM?

@MrCoffee

There was changes made to ipWhitelist for the last couple of updates. Have you checked that you can access your mirror from another computers browser?

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.