No, you can use it as a regular desktop of you want, just install a browser and the music player of choice on the same linux dist. as the MM.

Basically you run MM as any other software/app on a computer.

@Mykle1

According to the modules config options you can change each planets color with :
planetColor (So mercuryColor for changing color on mercury)

and you can change the size of the planets with

planetRadius (samething here, if you want to change the neptunes size you change it to neptuneRadius)

https://github.com/hoyski/MM-orrery#config

Almost everything is already written on how to add new modules and slmost every module has it’s own readme on how to install it and how to configure them.

The big thing I’ve noticed when questions do come up about modules not working is that people haven’t read the instructions all the way through.

Here is the basic write up on installing 3rd party modules :
https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/wiki/MagicMirror²-Modules

@mamalkita best result is a proper glass mirror.

@leadfarmer actually 3% is better at hiding the backlight bleed through, since it lets less light thruu the coating, but it also effectivly dampens all light, so less visibility for whats being displayed. It helps to use a heavier and larger size font on everything :)

If you can choose, try getting at least 12% light transmission, reading around the interwebbz 20% for normal lighted rooms and 40% for daylighy/really bright rooms.

@leadfarmer yeah you would get an edge to the right, but just to the right, not right and up :-)

I have a mirror with 57% reflection and 3% light transmission, 3% isn’t much and will probably give me a bit of an issue if the bathroom turns out to become super bright. But with only one window and dark tiles I’m hoping it will be enough crossing fingers

57% reflection gives a slight dark reflection, 65-75% would make for a better mirror surface.

@leadfarmer I’m just thinking about the backlight of the screen, since no monitor has pure black there will always be bleed through on the mirror, and with a smaller monitor you get more visible edges than if you try to run the monitor as close to the mirrors edges as possible.

In a bright lighted room in most cases it doesn’t matter, but still, trying to eliminate that will make for a better magicmirror :-)

@leadfarmer sounds good! But going up in height of the mirror I would get a larger monitor to fill the height, 24" works well with the 600mm height, but with 900mm I would get a 32" monitor (aprox 720-750mm wide at 16:9).

@leadfarmer yeah, at the moment you probably won’t find anything slimmer than that, what could it be 30mm at the base?

Don’t bother with an adapter just buy a hdmi cable with the angled connector instead, I think there is really short ones out there.

I’m also building a 120*60cm bathroom mirror, but I’m also putting in some 240v outlets in the frame so mine is around 10cm deep, I have lots of space inside.

Are you planning on a frame or just “studs” around/through the mirror?

And btw, I wouldn’t disassemble it, if it breaks while still under warranty, you will be glad you didn’t take it appart :)

@MattG and if you use https://www.google.com as the url?

And you want to display the embedded calendar from google in the iframe? Why not use the default calendar module and have it display your google calendar? (Using iCal)

If embedded, you should only use the adress,none of the html tags around it.

Don’t know if it’s just missing from your post or the config file, looks like it’s missing a { before the module entry

Are you sure the folder name of the module has been correctly altered to phone_notification? (and not phone-notification-mirror)

And have you run npm install inside that modules folder?

@ooom416354 Yes, if you put that inside the text: ' ... ' it should work nicely,
But since the module doesn’t have any width constraints it could stretch the top_left area, but that depends on number of characters and font-size ofc.

@ooom416354

If you want it all in a row above the calender then use < span >, < div > usually stacks on top of each other.

< span style="color: blue">Dude, < /span>
< span style="color: pink">Dudette, < /span>
< span style="color: green">Tiny dude, < /span>
< span style="color: yellow">Tiny dudette, < /span>
< span style="color: purple">Tiniest thingymajigg< /span>

That should give you “Dude, Dudette, Tiny dude, Tiny dudette, Tiniest thingymajigg”

@ooom416354 if all names will be listed over ONE combined calendar you could just add it as static text.

@fersev

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Manual-Dimmer-Switch-for-LED-Strip-Light-12V-8A-Mountable-with-Terminals-/231887888154

maybe?

@nikolauzi I have a 120*60cm mirror with a 24" screen on one end, you will get bleedthrough from the backlight of the screen, so the screen surface will be visible. How much so all depends on the light transmission of the mirror and in combination with the room.

If you worry about ambient light from other sources that would get through where the screen isn’t you could always add vinyl to the back side to stop light getting through.

My self, I run a SMB share from my Pi so I can access the files directly via windows, then I just open and save the files over the network using an text editor.

for an easy guide to setting up a samba share :
http://www.howtogeek.com/176471/how-to-share-files-between-windows-and-linux/

mac osx should also be able to find and use the smb shared folders

@strizl no, not inside the body {}

you could try increasing the size to see a more clear effect

Try adding

.calendar .symbol {width: 20px;}
.calender .time {width: 50px;}

To the custom.css

Awesome job dude! :D