Hi All

I just wanted to hear if others can actually scan the QR codes? I can’t figure out what is going wrong, I have news showing up, I have the QR code show up (both handling it via push, very nice).
But for some reason my phone won’t scan the code, it keeps attempting to, but noooo.

@Snille Looks very nice, good job!

While recovering from Covid-19, I just wanted to post an image of the mirror in it’s place.
Still waiting for some extra light in the bathroom, as the tinted mirror makes it rather dark to look at.
The light strips in the mirror works quite well.
I still need to buff up the mirror :-D
But I like that the mirror is hanging only by the small hinges, so it kind of floats on the wall.
I’ve set it to turn on the monitor together with the powerfull light above the mirror, so the light from the monitor will not be that visible.

I have finally gotten most of it working.
I’m almost ready for halloween :-)
I’m going to create a scene that will make the light flicker, and then I want to start a movie playback via a MQTT command.
I’ve made a script that will random select a clip and play it back, and it shows up as it should, on top of the MM.
But how can I get that done?
I tried using the ‘MMM-Remote-Control’ and add a command with customcommand, but it seems that I can not just add a random command, I can only redefine the already set up commands???

The MQTTBridge sends out perfect NOTI’s, so anything that can react to this would work? Any ideas?

And again, Serge sharp eyes found the errors. I was somply trying to hard to add quotes and stuff so it got messed up.
The working config for receiving commands from Home Assistant looks like this now:

var mqttHook = [
    {
      mqttTopic: "cmnd/bathroom/mirror",
      mqttPayload: [
        {
          payloadValue: "MONITOROFF",
          mqttNotiCmd: ["MONITOROFF"]
        },
        {
          payloadValue: "MONITORON",
          mqttNotiCmd: ["MONITORON"]
        },
        {
          payloadValue: "UNDIM",
          mqttNotiCmd: ["UNDIM"]
        },
        {
          payloadValue: "DIM",
          mqttNotiCmd: ["DIM"]
        },
      ],
    },
  ];
var mqttNotiCommands = [
    {
      commandId: "MONITOROFF",
      notiID: 'REMOTE_ACTION',
      notiPayload: {action: 'MONITOROFF'}
    },
    {
      commandId: "MONITORON",
      notiID: 'REMOTE_ACTION',
      notiPayload: {action: 'MONITORON'}
    },
    {
      commandId: "DIM",
      notiID: 'REMOTE_ACTION',
      notiPayload: {action: 'BRIGHTNESS', value: '50'}
    },
    {
      commandId: "UNDIM",
      notiID: 'REMOTE_ACTION',
      notiPayload: {action: 'BRIGHTNESS', value: '255'}
    },
  ];

  module.exports = { mqttHook,  mqttNotiCommands};

The config that works looks like this:

var notiHook = [
  {
    notiId: "USER_PRESENCE",
    notiPayload: [
      {
        payloadValue: '1',
        notiMqttCmd: ["SCREENON"]
      },
      {
        payloadValue: '0',
        notiMqttCmd: ["SCREENOFF"]
      }
    ]
  }
];
var notiMqttCommands = [
  {
    commandId: "SCREENOFF",
    mqttTopic: "state/bathroom/mirror/monitor",
    mqttMsgPayload: "OFF"
  },
  {
    commandId: "SCREENON",
    mqttTopic: "state/bathroom/mirror/monitor",
    mqttMsgPayload: "ON"
  }
];

module.exports = { notiHook, notiMqttCommands };

Thankyou again for your excellent help and sharp eyes Serge!. :flexed_biceps: :heart_suit:

I can see that MMM-Remote-Control set’s the USER_PRESENCE depending on the state of the monitor.
I try to interpret that to update the status of the switch in HomeAssistant by having it set up in the notiDictionary

The config looks like this:

var notiHook = [
  {
    notiId: "USER_PRESENCE",
    notiPayload: [
      {
        payloadValue: true,
        notiMqttCmd: ["SCREENON"]
      },
      {
        payloadValue: false,
        notiMqttCmd: ["SCREENOFF"]
      },
    ],
  },
];
var notiMqttCommands = [
  {
    commandId: "SCREENOFF",
    mqttTopic: "bathroom/mirror/monitor",
    mqttMsgPayload: "{'state':'OFF'}"
  },
  {
    commandId: "SCREENON",
    mqttTopic: "bathroom/mirror/monitor",
    mqttMsgPayload: "{'state':'ON'}"
  },
];

module.exports = { notiHook, notiMqttCommands };

The logs looks like this:

0|mm     | [2020-10-16 09:44:34.089] [LOG]
0|mm     | [MQTT bridge] NOTI->MQTT. Topic: bathroom/mirror/monitor, payload: false
0|mm     | [2020-10-16 09:44:34.101] [LOG]
0|mm     | Powering off HDMI
0|mm     | [2020-10-16 09:44:34.102] [LOG]
0|mm     | [2020-10-16 09:44:36.936] [LOG]
0|mm     | [MQTT bridge] NOTI->MQTT. Topic: bathroom/mirror/monitor, payload: {"state":"ON"}
0|mm     | [2020-10-16 09:44:37.793] [LOG]
0|mm     | Powering on HDMI with preferred settings
0|mm     | [2020-10-16 09:44:37.795] [LOG]

So when it turns off, it doesn’t report state: off it just reports ‘false’ and it only reports state:on when it’s on.

I do see the messages appear in the MQTT, but as they are incorrectly formatted, HA doesn’t update it properly.

As I posted elsewhere, after find the logs, I could get the errors removed, so now it posts the notification to REMOTE_ACTION, but nothing happens:

It does receive the MQTT command, but nothing happens on the NOTI:

0|mm     | [MQTT bridge] MQTT message received. Topic: bathroom/mirror, message: MONITOROFF
0|mm     | [2020-10-16 09:23:53.728] [LOG]
0|mm     | [MQTT bridge] MQTT -> NOTI issued: 'REMOTE_ACTION', payload: {action: 'MONITOROFF' }

Same thing happens for MONITORON, DIM and UNDIM.

The mqttdictionary file looks like this now:

var mqttHook = [
    {
      mqttTopic: "bathroom/mirror",
      mqttPayload: [
        {
          payloadValue: "MONITOROFF",
          mqttNotiCmd: ["MONITOROFF"]
        },
        {
          payloadValue: "MONITORON",
          mqttNotiCmd: ["MONITORON"]
        },
        {
          payloadValue: "UNDIM",
          mqttNotiCmd: ["UNDIM"]
        },
        {
          payloadValue: "DIM",
          mqttNotiCmd: ["DIM"]
        },
      ],
    },
  ];
var mqttNotiCommands = [
    {
      commandId: "MONITOROFF",
      notiID: "'REMOTE_ACTION'",
      notiPayload: "{action: 'MONITOROFF' }"
    },
    {
      commandId: "MONITORON",
      notiID: "'REMOTE_ACTION'",
      notiPayload: "{action: 'MONITORON' }"
    },
    {
      commandId: "DIM",
      notiID: "'REMOTE_ACTION'",
      notiPayload: "{action: 'BRIGHTNESS', value: '50')"
    },
    {
      commandId: "UNDIM",
      notiID: "'REMOTE_ACTION'",
      notiPayload: "action: 'BRIGHTNESS', value: '255'}"
    },
  ];

  module.exports = { mqttHook,  mqttNotiCommands};

And the notification looks just like the one here in the documentation example here:

this.sendNotification('REMOTE_ACTION', {action: 'RESTART'});

The ipWhitelisting has been both tried with [(“127.0.0.1”,“localhost”,“my.ip.range.0/24”)] and also with just [].
I can issue the commands MONITOROFF/MONITORON directly in the Remote-Control menu at /remote.html

Any input from the developers on this? @Serge , @Bugsounet, @Jopyth :-)

Is it a MMM-MQTTbridge problem or a MMM-Remote-Control problem?

Ahh, and the second you post this, you actually find it mentioned in a sentence on the forum :-D

So if I issue

pm2 logs

I see the logs I need!

I’m going to break this post off, and make a seperate about the problem with nothing happening now.

Hi All

I had this up and running before the latest updates to MM and to the MMM-MQTTbridge. But now it doesn’t.
I need to find out what is going on, but where do I find the debug log on the latest MM?
I can see in my old posts when I originally tried to set this up I could get nice long logs that detailed what was going on, but I can’t find the logs now.

I need to have the MMM-MQTTbridge report status of monitor (to update the switch in HomeAssistant), to receive monitoron/off (which is sent from a homebuilt PIR in the bathroom) and to execute a custom command (for halloween scary stuff :-D ).

So it’s assembled, just need to protect the wood from moisture.

The ‘behind the mirror’ lights are working nicely, it’s based on WLED, the LED’s inside are SK6812, so it has very nice white, as well as RGB.
And then I off course need to polish the mirror :-)
It’s going to be set up before halloween, and I already have videos of ghosts ready and tested ;-)

I sent the oracal back (very expensive stuff) as I could get much cheaper and darker stuff from our local hardware store.
So I got the back covered with it, and then cut holes in it for the LED lights and monitor, it seems to work very well.

So, things are shaping up, I’ve gotten the mirror rebuilt, I had to swap the monitor, it was getting too hot.
The new one is much cooler.
I also got the lights mounted, it’s a mixture of fun and serious, it will give light for usage, but it’s also RGB, so it can do effects if we want to :-)
This image shows the lights turned to it’s lowest (apart from being off, of course. The foil is still on, until I get the mirror properly fixed to the frame, it has the foil on.

@monkeyking said in Big landscape mirror with two displays:

Very nice!

Go to the community order on this page, that’s proper mirrors, and they are very good quality. They cost a bit more than a bendy acryllic sheet, or a film, but they are well worth it :-)

Go to the community order on this page, the mirrrors he is offering is real mirrors, and the best I’ve found.

Ahh, ok, then I know exactly what it is :-)
I got some oracal651 as suggested by @Hubschra01 , but that was slightly more transparent than the one I already had. So I’m going to stick with the cheap stuff I already had, and return the oracal651.
@Goldjunge_Chriz is it correct that I can foil the back of the mirror and then cut through the foil without ruining the ‘mirror foil’ as that is applied to the front of the glass in your variant?

@bhepler What is ‘construction paper’? But, yes, the adhesive needs to be invisible.
I got some black foil for windows, I’m going to try and mount that, and put a flashlight to it, to see how well it does. The oracal foil mentioned by @Hubschra01 is very expensive, but probably also of better quality, I think I’m going to try that next.

Great, thankyou for the suggestions, I definetely have something to go with now.