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    dmcinnes

    @dmcinnes

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    Website www.dougmcinnes.com/ Location Portland, OR, USA

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    Best posts made by dmcinnes

    • RE: PIR sensor behind glass?

      I got the microwave radar modules today!

      They work great, even behind my mirror, although they are very sensitive. It triggered on even small arm movements and didn’t require line of sight. Works for my needs though, I just want it to turn off the monitor when nobody is around.

      I haven’t tried powering them with my PI, but they worked fine with an external 5v power supply.

      posted in Hardware
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    • RE: Where are you from?

      I’m in Portland, OR

      posted in General Discussion
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    • MMM-forecast-io -- Localized up to the minute weather

      This module adds super localized, up to the minute weather using the forecast.io API – the same service that powers the Dark Sky App.
      It will tell you exactly when the rain will start or stop.

      screenshot

      https://github.com/dmcinnes/MMM-forecast-io

      posted in Utilities
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    • RE: PIR sensor behind glass?

      Another possibility: I ordered a couple of these $2 microwave radar motion detectors to see if they will work behind my glass. Still waiting to receive them though:

      http://m.ebay.com/itm/1pc-5-8GHZ-Microwave-Radar-Sensor-6-9M-Smart-Switch-for-Home-Control-/131864712562?txnId=1245760396003

      More details:
      http://www.cnx-software.com/2016/04/04/tiny-microwave-radar-module-detects-movements-up-to-9-meters-away-for-2/amp/

      posted in Hardware
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    • RE: Introduce yourself!

      Hello!

      I’m Doug, 41, I’m in Portland, OR in the US. I am a software engineer for work and I dabble in a lot of things, but mostly electronics and game development.

      I originally found MichMich’s awesome mirror project a couple of years ago, and made one for myself. Though I got discouraged after corrupting two different SD cards and dropped it for other projects. Was excited to see the new MagicMirror² project and this great forum!

      During my original work had rebuilt some of the mirror code, and even hacked together facial recognition using RaspiCam (my mirror has a Rasberry Pi Camera sneaked up behind the glass at the top).
      https://github.com/dmcinnes/MirrorMirror
      https://github.com/dmcinnes/mirrormirror-camcv
      It’s nowhere near as nice as easy to set up as paviro’s facial recognition module!

      I recently posted a module I ported from my old mirror code, Forecast-IO weather:
      https://github.com/dmcinnes/MMM-forecast-io

      I’ll post pictures of my mirror once I get it all working again 🙂

      posted in General Discussion
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    • RE: MMM-forecast-io -- Localized up to the minute weather

      Wow that looks great! Particularly the weather forecast.
      I looked at creating a graph since the data is all right there in the response. I might as well see I can port the code over to this module!

      posted in Utilities
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    • RE: Help! semester project can't figure out facial recognition

      @dk7988 said in Help! semester project can’t figure out facial recognition:

      No helper found for module: MMM-Facial-Recognition.

      This error message happens when the node_helper.js file is not found for a module. The Facial-Recognition module does have one, so it appears to not be installed where the mirror expects it. Is the module checked out in the modules directory under the MagicMirror installation?

      posted in Troubleshooting
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    • RE: Remote Administration & Updates

      Interesting problem!
      Possibly an easier path may be some kind of folder sharing like dropbox or bittorrent sync. The cron job could simply restart the mirror software.
      If you want to use Github you could publish a manifest of module URLs that the cron job downloads into the modules directory, that way you don’t have to deal with maintaining a fork of mirror code and submodules.

      posted in Development
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    • RE: MMM-forecast-io -- Localized up to the minute weather

      Forecast.io API has been rebranded as darksky.net: http://blog.darksky.net/introducing-darksky-net/

      I’ve updated this module with the default URLs, otherwise it doesn’t seem to support the redirect properly.

      I’m continuing to work on this module, more soon!

      posted in Utilities
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    • RE: MMM-forecast-io -- Localized up to the minute weather

      I’ve just pushed an update to the module. Previously if there was a network error the module would get “stuck” and no longer update. This is now fixed!

      posted in Utilities
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    Latest posts made by dmcinnes

    • RE: [MMM-Motion-Detection] Motion Detection through PiCam or USB Webcam

      @gismo2006 unfortunately since the module was forked from the facial recognition one and uses the same underlying library for camera control, you will not be able to use both at the same time.

      posted in Utilities
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    • RE: [MMM-Motion-Detection] Motion Detection through PiCam or USB Webcam

      @jasonarends try to use the default interval of 1, there may be some initialization issues with larger intervals.

      posted in Utilities
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    • RE: Help! semester project can't figure out facial recognition

      Great to hear!

      posted in Troubleshooting
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    • RE: Help! semester project can't figure out facial recognition

      Try renaming the module directory “MMM-Facial-Recognition” (without “-master”), I don’t have the code in front of me but I believe the mirror software uses the name of the module from your config as the directory name.

      posted in Troubleshooting
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    • RE: All stocks modules are not working for me.

      The Google API has been shut down, which is why the stocks module is not working. I’m not sure about the others…

      posted in Utilities
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    • RE: Help! semester project can't figure out facial recognition

      @dk7988 said in Help! semester project can’t figure out facial recognition:

      No helper found for module: MMM-Facial-Recognition.

      This error message happens when the node_helper.js file is not found for a module. The Facial-Recognition module does have one, so it appears to not be installed where the mirror expects it. Is the module checked out in the modules directory under the MagicMirror installation?

      posted in Troubleshooting
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    • [MMM-Motion-Detection] Motion Detection through PiCam or USB Webcam

      Description

      With this module your mirror will only turn on when it detects motion through the Raspberry Pi’s PiCam or a USB webcam. It also emits motion-detected and motion-stopped notifications that other modules can use.

      This was ported from Paviro’s MMM-Facial-Recognition module mostly to get the python code for camera usage and OpenCV support. Thanks Paviro!

      Download

      posted in Utilities
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    • RE: MMM-forecast-io -- Localized up to the minute weather

      @pyrosmiley Hello! The precipitation graph is created using an HTML Canvas so unfortunately the colors cannot be tweaked by CSS apart from the border. The Javascript will need to be modified to support additional colors. Here is where the color is set for the curve and further up it draws the horizontal lines and tick marks. Ideally these colors are configurable. I’ve added an issue to the repo to track it!

      I’m knee deep in another project, so if someone wants to take a crack at it, please be my guest 🙂

      posted in Utilities
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    • RE: MMM-forecast-io -- Localized up to the minute weather

      @FlatPepsi Looks awesome! I particularly like the day/night shading in the graph.

      posted in Utilities
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    • RE: MMM-forecast-io -- Localized up to the minute weather

      Hello everyone,

      I’ve recently updated the module fixing/adding a couple things:

      • Fixes an issue that made the top of the curve appear off the graph during a heavy storm.
      • Adds alwaysShowPrecipitationGraph to always show the precipitation graph.
      • Adds details on getting the geolocation working by setting the GOOGLE_API_KEY.

      Use git pull in your module to update.

      Enjoy!
      Doug

      posted in Utilities
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