the time in the currentweather I believe is the time for sunrise at your location.

Try these, I think the remote control does pretty much what you want already. or you could modify the syslog module to switch modules based on input.

https://github.com/paviro/MMM-syslog

https://github.com/Jopyth/MMM-Remote-Control

I would suggest exploring the Windows route if you want “apps”.
And in that case choose a nuc pc or similar to power it all.

About touch, the best way is probably an IR frame over the mirror.
It has been discussed a lot on this forum.

Backlight is an issue with almost all LCD screens, this can be remedied by either a mirror with less light transmission (this will effectively dampen all light, even the parts you want to show.) or switch the monitor to a better one with a higher contrast, LED is usually better than CCFL when it comes to bleed through of the backlight. If you have a lot of money OLED is the shizzle, but it’s almost impossible to find in monitor sizes.

@Benjoe1896

It uses alsamixer command lines in the node helper file, your system probably doesn’t have alsa installed then.
Either install that or check what your linux distribution uses for sound management and change the node helper file accordingly!

@janthonyds the ir frame goes above the mirror-glass (i.e the ir diodes are mounted in the frame around the mirror).
Google IR-frame, or IR touch and similar and you will get lot’s of results and information.

@janthonyds IR frame is the easiest solution.

@rguidice

https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/2164/mmm-htmlvideo-basic-video-file-player

Does not support all formats, but some basic ones.

It’s been covered many times on this forum, Here is one thread for an example :
https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/2447/css-basics/2

But here is the solution for the time and date :

blue time :

.clock .time {
color: blue;
}

red date:

.clock .date {
color: red;
}

@KX900 backup those files somewhere if you want to keep the changes you’ve made (you shouldn’t have made any changes in those files unless you really reaally had to) and then delete them and try to update again.

@joela85 you could probably make one yourself with a desktop recording program.

@AnyKey any text editor will be able to read .js files.

@PhilsterM9 don’t know
These are the electron options.

https://github.com/electron/electron/blob/master/docs/api/browser-window.md#new-browserwindowoptions

@ghaal you copy the sample file ONCE after you have installed the mirror software.

But it looked like you where repeating the copy command ( cp = copy ) before you started the mirror (npm start ) and IF you do this each time, it doesn’t matter what you have saved in the config.js file since it will be overwritten each time you type in : cp config.js.sample config.js

If you need re-occuring events isnt the calendar a better option? I do believe the calendar already has the option to send notifcations on calendar events.

@PhilsterM9 did you try the electronoption in the config file?

electronOptions: { fullscreen: false, width: 1080, height: 1840 }

This works on my mirror. (this is given that you are running the mirror in portrait mode and with a resolution of 1920x1080px)

@zdenek sounds more like a defective sd-card if the Pi won’t start at all.

@DongerZone said in Touch overly VS. “Smart Glass”:

I’m going to be working on this soon, after I get my modules reacting to my mouse. I think putting a transparent capacitive touch panel, in front of the mirror, might give you this effect. If you want to put the mirror on top though, I think you’re looking for a resistive touch panel.

This could actually work, it will build on the thickness and weight of the mirror but you could have a really thin frame instead of a IR-frame around it.

So it would be layers like :

Glass
Touch foil
Air gap
Mirror
Screen

An IR-frame isn’t affected by the type of mirror (since it is placed in front of everything).

Touch foils (pcap) however can’t be used on glass with metallic coatings, which most of the mirrors have, because the metal distorts the readings of the foil sensors.

With that said I don’t know how the touch foil would react behind an acrylic mirror but my guess is that it most likely won’t work. (As most plastics are prone to get staticly charged and that could probably have a negative impact on the touch foil as well).

@Mykle1 I think he means the pixel desktop taskbar

Don’t really know how to format it but electron can be run in window-mode and still maximized

maybe this will work :

electronOptions: { fullscreen: false, width: 1080, height: 1840 }