@Goldjunge_Chriz
Your mirror looks very good! Crystal clear!

Since you seem to know about glass, can you tell me something about how the mirror is made?
I learned there are two ways.

One version of mirrors has an evaporated coating (aufgedampfte Beschichtung) as reflection material on the glass.

The other version works with a reflecting foil in the middle (Verbundglas).

The evaporated version might be vulnerable to scratches more than the foil which is protected by the glass.

Can you tell me about your glass?

Hi, I’m Dominic, 42 yrs old, married with one 2,5 years old boy and a 1,5 year old twin couple (girl and boy).
We live in Berlin, Germany.

I learned about the original magic mirror from a friend and started crawling for information. That’s about a year ago.
After a while I intensified my search and since my wife and children are in my wife’s country for some months, I had time for this project.
Well, at least I thought I have enough time.
You know: “If a man says that he will do it, he will! You don’t have to remind him every 6 months.” :D
Now they are soon coming back and I have a deadline.
Module assembling is as finished as it can be - always new cool mods that need to be tested ;) - and I go for the hardware.

This project - the magic mirror - is really great. Probably the best idea I found on the web for a good while.
For me the mirror will be the main info board, a family calender to plan the days and weeks when the kids going to anniversaries, hobbies and other appointments. Shopping list etc.

I really like the community. It is a very good size. The communication is very friendly. The input and ideas are great.
Unfortunately I’m not a programmer. So the best I can do is to have an idea that hopefully one of you guys like too.

cheers
done

Ick bin een Berliner! :)

Thx @bhepler
this helped to reduce my temperature from 80 °C to 50-60 °C.
Maybe the 80 °C even caused the wake up problem? :)

Anyway, I think I’ll try the voice activation module tomorrow.
Somehow it’s even very sweet to say “Mirror, Mirror on the wall. Wake up!”.

@Jopyth said in 230V in the naked monitor:

doesn’t every monitor have the power supply inside somewhere?

Mine has an external power supply like those for laptops.
So I don’t have to remove the cover of the thing that converts 230 V to whatever.
I was looking for this feature to be more flexible in terms of heat prevention.

@Jopyth I think I don’t understand the difference? :D
Or you’re talking about the default sleep time that is already set at start up of the pi?
So that, no matter what you do, you set a (default) timer of i. e. 15 minutes when the hdmi switches off.

@Jopyth
Ok, nice one!
Even I’m missing the “switch on for xy minutes” feature ;)

Anyway, what I realized is:

• saving the configuration of shown modules causes the mirror to restart. Maybe there should be a confirmation message.
• if you press “save” without a change, there could be a message telling you that there is no change and thus restart is not necessary.
• on the smartphone landscape doesn’t show the installed mod list, on the tablet it does.
• do you need two different switches/lines to show/hide all? Technical reason? Otherwise it could earn you some space.
• Netatmo is shown twice in the “New module” list -> probably because it is twice in the wiki as well :)

Installation of new module - I tried the “Callmonitor-Current-Call” - worked smoothly. Even editing the position and header was easy! Sweet!

2nd installation - this time “Motiondetecter” - ended in an error. The mirror crashes in the moment I push the Download button.
Retried to download but it seems like it the pi freezes. Tried to restart but i hang up. Had to disconnect it from the power supply.
Tried again. Same thing. Error while downloading. This time I went back in the menu to restart the mirror. Couldn’t download but the mirror didn’t die. Maybe it’s the motion detector and the neccessary steps to activate the cam module?
The folder “motiondetector” was created but it is empty.

3rd installation - Local Transport - Error after starting to download. The mirror restarted.

Hmm, any module I try causes a crash and restart of the mirror in the moment I press the DL button.

Any information you need?

Nevertheless this is a great configuration tool!

@Jay
There is an ID mentioned in the readme

Haha, looks like my development setup.
But since I got a curved TV you wouldn’t believe that it is for a mirror. (Or you’d take me for an idiot).

@Jopyth said in Looking for beta testers for MMM-Remote-Control:

It does not show the installed modules list on smartphone in landscape?

Exactly. I just checked again.
I use a Galaxy S6 (just for the dimensions) and I experience that on chrome and the default browser.
I have an idea for the reason.
You work with something like frames.
You have the fix navigation area with “Back”, “Brightness” etc. on top and you have a scrollable list with the installed mods below.
When I go for landscape, there is no chance to get to the scrollable area since the fix area takes already whole of the screen.
The solution could be to make the whole screen scrollable.
At least for small mobile devices.
Or you prevent the browser from going into landscape :D

I guess this is an easy one.

I tried to install modules. MMM-hue and FUEL worked but I had no time to configure them. But they showed on the mirror.

Let me know if I should retry.

@Jay
Have you checked “How to get the stationId” in the readme?

I have no installation right now. Otherwise you could have my ID.
But as far as I remember it was pretty easy to get an id.
If it’s missing station names:

Zoologischer Garten
Osloer Straße
Ostkreuz
Westkreuz

Hope this helps.

@Jay
There is an ID mentioned in the readme

Is there any new version to test?

Ick bin een Berliner! :)

What about a frame from aluminum?
I got a mirror with aluminum frame from Ikea and asked a friend to shorten it on the size I need.
He could keep the mirror glass and I’ve got my frame.

@Goldjunge_Chriz
Your mirror looks very good! Crystal clear!

Since you seem to know about glass, can you tell me something about how the mirror is made?
I learned there are two ways.

One version of mirrors has an evaporated coating (aufgedampfte Beschichtung) as reflection material on the glass.

The other version works with a reflecting foil in the middle (Verbundglas).

The evaporated version might be vulnerable to scratches more than the foil which is protected by the glass.

Can you tell me about your glass?

@Jopyth said in 230V in the naked monitor:

doesn’t every monitor have the power supply inside somewhere?

Mine has an external power supply like those for laptops.
So I don’t have to remove the cover of the thing that converts 230 V to whatever.
I was looking for this feature to be more flexible in terms of heat prevention.

Good luck! :)

@Jopyth said in Looking for beta testers for MMM-Remote-Control:

Does it still do the restart thing?

I installed the new dependencies and now it seems to work. :)

@DirkS It’s already impossible to translate this in proper German :D