Listen to Strawberry, he knows. I didn’t realize it was old. His answer is much better

@Mitchfarino I will post it later tonight. The mirror working that is and I’ll post the voice git hub info as well. I didn’t do the software strawberry did. But it’s working great

My mirror has come a long way since it’s first build… it’s now voice activated… with newer modules like MMM-NFL module… wunderground weather module… quotes module… all this possible by really awesome users!!

So my mirror is because of the people that work really hard to bring this stuff to the public and it’s much appreciated!! It’s really awesome that you can customize something for you instead of having to deal with what people sell you and having to live with something that works but doesn’t totally do what you want it to.

Thank you all for ALL your hard work!!!

Unless you install a GPS module to show location… which is possible…

Yes this is already possible here… it may not be as good to some but you know what? It’s NOT Microsoft… ;)

No doubt having an email info window would be awesome Microsoft isn’t developer friendly…

Why not just a module you can enter your info into and see your email that way? I know there’s one here…

Well MagicMirror got my vote… no doubt, hands down the best project… it’s functional, fun and the possibilities are endless!!!

“npm install electron” from a terminal window without quotes…

It’s working great!! Time/Quarter and what team has the ball and when they’re in the red zone… Great job!

@strawberry-3.141 Let you know this Wed and Thurs… :) Thank you!!!

@ronny3050 said in USB Microphone:

@Mitchfarino
This is what I use: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00IR8R7WQ/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

It works absolutely fantastic.

Mine just came in today… looking forward to some sort of voice control ;)

I don’t of anything that directly controls the monitors brightness… but the f.lux and other programs just ‘warm’ the color to give it the appearance of being dim.

I agree that having something that could actually control it would be nicer… but I’m still looking myself…

I just like the camera… it’s a personal choice :) But drilling a hole will work too!! I don’t see a thing wrong with that!

@yo-less changing the brightness would be really nice… having it automatic would be better… you know at a certain time of night it dims automatically… but there is this…

https://github.com/xflux-gui/xflux-gui

@yo-less said in PIR sensor behind glass?:

Can a PIR sensor be covered by anything at all or does any kind of material automatically block motion detection?

You really can’t cover a PIR it just won’t work… BUT you can remove the ‘dome’ and incorporate into the frame a little better OR you can just put it into the frame with the ‘dome’ on it and make it decorative…

I live in the US but this is what I used…

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824009627

You two are amazing! It’s people like you that bring this type of technology and make it reachable by far more people that just couldn’t afford to pay HUGE amounts of money to just buy a mirror that works…

Thanks for ALL your hard work and patience with those of us who are neither py or js developers!

So this is what I’ve done and it solved it…

I took your sudo modprobe bcm2835-v4l2 and entered before I started the mirror and no more error so I started the mirror in dev and it was registering movement…Great!

So I closed the mirror and restarted… same error, driver not loaded…

so I did this in case of a power out,e tc…in a terminal window:

sudo crontab -e

Enter this on the last line:

@reboot sudo modprobe bcm2835-v4l2

Saved and exited.
Reboot
Restart mirror in dev mode
NO error and tracks movement
close mirror and restart in dev
NO error and tracks movement.

PROBLEM SOLVED!! Thank you guys for being patient!! It’s working.

I just typed in the sudo modprobe bcm2835-v4l2 and it returned nothing so I’m guessing that’s a good thing LOL

@strawberry-3.141 said in Motion Detector:

this sounds that your cam is not getting recognized as a valid webcam

I am using the NOIR Picamera that’s interesting because outside the module the camera works fine LOL

Hummmmmmm…