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 :)

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.

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

Thanks @KirAsh4 ! I bought a case to try out as well.

@KirAsh4 How quiet is that fan?

I’m also having heat problems with a Raspberry Pi 3, gets up to 80C then starts to give the rainbow square in the corner.
I’ve just tried underclocking and it’s not making any difference:

arm_freq=900
arm_freq_min=60

My load average is hovering at 0.8 with four cores!
I think I need some more ventilation. When I remove the mirror from the wall it cools down considerably.

I also used a ViewSonic, this 24 inch:
https://www.amazon.com/Viewsonic-VA2446M-LED-24-Inch-1080p-Monitor/dp/B00D601UC8
Like Eric said, the bezel came off fairly easily and it’s slim. Plus it’s only $129.99 right now!