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Finally i got the mirror and frame! :D

The mirror comes from myspiegel.de and the frame has been ordered at bilderrahmen-passt.de.

Here are pictures of a mirror by myspiegel.de + frame of bilderrahmen-passt.de

The mirror is darker than another ones i saw on pictures. It’s not a mirror for makeup ;)
But im satisfied and my wife, too! It does look very fine and beautiful with the darkness of the glass.

If you expect a real shiny mirror like in your bathroom myspiegel.de is the wrong shop for you.

Regards
Dirk

As i said, some pictures will come if i start the InWall Mirror.

Draft where the mirror will be.

Then cut the Wall

Big hole :D

Much nicer now

With hardware, the Pi has to do some more jobs with the houseautomation

The PIR will be mounted next to it within the wall, too

The LCD need to be a door for the maintenance ;)

Yeah need another direction :D

Now waiting for the mirror and frame.

View of the new Kitchen i’m building now with MagicMirror :)

Check out my Facebook Site for the grand construction blog! :D Give some likes and shares if you like it ;)

With the power of Hilti ;)

Hi i’m Dirk from Germany. I’m 35 years old and an application engineer for laser marking systems in industries.

Collecting a lot of hobbies such as Modding, Networking, Renovation, Garden, building things in general.

It was very nice to get in touch with the Magic Mirror Project and started to build my first. Searched a very long time for a good place that it can be a part of our daily life. Found it a couple of month later and resulted in an InWall Mirror. Will be completed soon! :D

Nice to be here!

regards
Dirk

@done hahah! yes that’s right :D

that are all the compliments:

                         morning: [
                                "Gumoje, Schnibbelsche!",
                                "Scheene Doag!",
                                "Ei guude wie?",
                                "Wie hoaschde gepennt?",
                                "Na du Stinkwatz?"
                        ],
                        afternoon: [
                                "Na, Schnuggelsche!",
                                "Du bischd subber!",
                                "Guude!",
                                "Gud sieschde aus!"
                        ],
                        evening: [
                                "Des zischt wie Abbelsaft!",
                                "Na, Zuckerschneggsche?",
                                "Erbaame! Zu Spät!",
                                "Geil Wuzz!"

Yesterday i’ve got the MySpiegel.de mirror. I’m satisfied!

It is still packed in foil because the frame did not arrive, yet. So i will show pictures of it soon.

Hi,

for all the people here I wrote it more cleary :D

i had big problems by switching off my screen with the PIR or another module with camera. The problem was not the module itself it is a firmware problem of the PI. I could see the same problem outside of MagicMirror as well by trying different things.

Reported also here:
https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/487

The symptom is that after a while of switching on and off the screen it remains off.

Dmesg reports the problem:

Nov  1 08:22:00 MagicMirror kernel: [86411.138649] raspberrypi-firmware soc:firmware: Request 0x00048003 returned status 0x80000001
Nov  1 08:22:00 MagicMirror kernel: [86411.138665] bcm2708_fb soc:fb: Failed to allocate GPU framebuffer (-22)
Nov  1 08:22:00 MagicMirror kernel: [86411.138670] detected fb_set_par error, error code: -22
Nov  1 08:22:00 MagicMirror kernel: [86411.139138] raspberrypi-firmware soc:firmware: Request 0x00048003 returned status 0x80000001
Nov  1 08:22:00 MagicMirror kernel: [86411.139148] bcm2708_fb soc:fb: Failed to allocate GPU framebuffer (-22)
Nov  1 08:22:00 MagicMirror kernel: [86411.139152] detected fb_set_par error, error code: -22
Nov  1 08:22:00 MagicMirror kernel: [86411.140642] raspberrypi-firmware soc:firmware: Request 0x00048003 returned status 0x80000001
Nov  1 08:22:00 MagicMirror kernel: [86411.140654] bcm2708_fb soc:fb: Failed to allocate GPU framebuffer (-22)
Nov  1 08:22:00 MagicMirror kernel: [86411.140659] detected fb_set_par error, error code: -22
Nov  1 08:22:00 MagicMirror kernel: [86411.140777] raspberrypi-firmware soc:firmware: Request 0x00048003 returned status 0x80000001
Nov  1 08:22:00 MagicMirror kernel: [86411.140785] bcm2708_fb soc:fb: Failed to allocate GPU framebuffer (-22)
Nov  1 08:22:00 MagicMirror kernel: [86411.140789] detected fb_set_par error, error code: -22
Nov  1 08:22:00 MagicMirror kernel: [86411.140856] raspberrypi-firmware soc:firmware: Request 0x00048003 returned status 0x80000001
Nov  1 08:22:00 MagicMirror kernel: [86411.140863] bcm2708_fb soc:fb: Failed to allocate GPU framebuffer (-22)
Nov  1 08:22:00 MagicMirror kernel: [86411.140868] bcm2708_fb_pan_display(0,0) returns=-22
Nov  1 08:22:00 MagicMirror systemd[1]: Started Getty on tty6.
Nov  1 08:22:00 MagicMirror kernel: [86411.256398] raspberrypi-firmware soc:firmware: Request 0x00048003 returned status 0x80000001
Nov  1 08:22:00 MagicMirror kernel: [86411.256413] bcm2708_fb soc:fb: Failed to allocate GPU framebuffer (-22)
Nov  1 08:22:00 MagicMirror kernel: [86411.256418] detected fb_set_par error, error code: -22
Nov  1 08:22:00 MagicMirror kernel: [86411.256758] raspberrypi-firmware soc:firmware: Request 0x00048003 returned status 0x80000001
Nov  1 08:22:00 MagicMirror kernel: [86411.256770] bcm2708_fb soc:fb: Failed to allocate GPU framebuffer (-22)
Nov  1 08:22:00 MagicMirror kernel: [86411.256775] bcm2708_fb_pan_display(0,0) returns=-22
Nov  1 08:22:00 MagicMirror kernel: [86411.296428] raspberrypi-firmware soc:firmware: Request 0x00040002 returned status 0x80000001
Nov  1 08:22:00 MagicMirror kernel: [86411.296455] bcm2708_fb soc:fb: bcm2708_fb_blank(0) failed: -22

Switching off the screen with

/opt/vc/bin/tvservice -o

and on with

/opt/vc/bin/tvservice --preferred && sudo chvt 6 && sudo chat 7

does not work reliable! The git issue tells you more about.

The workaround is a not yet described solution inside the config.txt

https://github.com/raspberrypi/documentation/pull/245/files

the option “hdmi_blanking=1” is your friend in this case! :D

Now i’m switching off the screen with

vcgencmd display_power 0

and on with

vcgencmd display_power 1

And it is working now like a charm! Did started to use it one day before this report and it is still working without any issue :)

Honestly speaking i don’t use any MM module for switching off anymore. But maybe my discovered solution will help any other and might be a way to change the module as well.

If you have trouble with on/off as well please check the output of dmesg. If you have the frambuffer problem you can fix it.

My personal solution is to have the PIR state at FHEM and from FHEM i’m using a script to switch the screen. But that’s a special case and for the most people here the usage of a MM Module will be the better way.

regards
Dirk

looks very great!

@Novcheck check this

https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/787/inwall-mirror