Posts made by chaseb1357

Never mind about price, just what are different ways to achieve touchscreen capability with an acrylic sheet?

@bhepler That’s great and all, but I was mainly looking for ways to do touchscreen. I’m going to end up making a mirror for my grandma because she wants one but she would neither know how to use VNC or be able to, so I was hoping I could make it touchscreen so she could change whatever she wanted by just touching what she wants.

I currently have a raspberry pi running the MagicMirror software, I have it fully customized to my liking. My new issue is going about building the actual mirror itself. I was wondering how I could get big screen real-estate, while also having it touch capable, while also keeping the costs down. Any suggestions??

@Snille That was a brilliant idea! I got it to work just as I wanted.
The Modules button is a separate module bar that I set up to toggle the one that I will fill with all my modules. I achieved this by going to my modules folder and duplicating the “MMM-Modulebar” folder and renaming it “MMM-ModulebarHide”. I then renamed everything referencing “MMM-Modulebar” to “MMM-ModulebarHide” for consistency.

My config file is set up like this:

		{
        		module: "MMM-ModulebarHide",
       			position: "bottom_right",
			//header: "Modules",
        		classes: "default everyone",
        		config: {
        			buttons: {
   				 	"1": {
	  					module: "MMM-Modulebar",
      						text: "Modules",
    					},
       				}
       			}
    		},
		{
        		module: "MMM-Modulebar",
       			position: "bottom_bar", // This can be any of the regions.
			header: "Modules", // Optional
        		classes: "default everyone", // Optional
        		config: {
        			buttons: {
   				 	"1": {
	  					module: "clock",
      						text: "Clock",
    					},
   					"2": {
						module: "currentweather",
      						text: "Current Weather",
      					},
      					"3": {
      						module: "calendar",
      						text: "Calender",
      					},
      					"4": {
      						module: "weatherforecast",
      						text: "Weather Forecast",
      					},
      					"5": {
      						module: "newsfeed",
      						text: "News Feed",
      					},
      					"6": {
      						module: "MMM-SystemStats",
      						text: "System Stats",
      					},

      				}
           			// See 'Configuration options' for more information.
       			}
    		},

I can now toggle the module bar! Thanks so much!

@Snille I have that module installed also, I was just wanting a quick way to hide certain modules like for example email. For whenever I don’t want any friends snooping, while i still get to show off the mirror. :)

@Snille Haha, I tried that yes. only to realize my mistake.

Is it possible to make the module bar itself toggle-able? It covers a large amount of screen real-estate; I was just wondering if its possible, how I could do that.

@Mykle1 Works like a charm, thank you for the guidance!

I am very new to Linux and the raspberry pi. I was inspired to build a smart mirror so I got everything set up right, I installed Magic Mirror and then I hit a wall. I don’t quite understand on how to edit the configs, I am specifically trying to edit what the compliments say and get them to fade after 5 seconds. Can someone explain to me how I go about doing this?