So I’ve gotten most of the Magic Mirror software installed with integration to my Home Assistant, and with scheduled modules, so it’s starting to look like it’s getting there.
I gave up on the Google-AIY HAT, and I’ve bought a tiny USB soundcard with mic-in and speaker-out (now I just need to get a mic for this that can be flush-mounted.
I still need the mirror itself (waiting for the community order), and to build the frame for it (waiting for my kap-gering saw :-D ), but the software is about ready.

So I’ve gone throught the MMM-AssistantMk2 steps, and now I’m at step 3, where it says:

But if you want to run your mirror as KIOSK mode(executed by npm start), you should rebuild binaries to match with electron. You will meet this or something similar errors on running MM.

NODE_MODULE_VERSION 59. This version of Node.js requires
NODE_MODULE_VERSION 57. Please try re-compiling or re-installing

If then, try this.(For Raspbian Buster or GCC 8 user)

So I’m running it with pm2, which I guess is what is referred to here.
Where do I see the error messages? I need to figure out if I need to do the recompilation.

Ok, finally I found the right module. So the remote module in MagicMirror (MMM-Remote-Control), and then ‘rest_command:’ setup in HA.
That way the motionsensor can turn the screen on and off in the mirror. For now I’ve made it simple with just defining four commands, two for on / off and two for dim / undim. And then just use those services in HA automations.
Works perfectly.
Now I need to turn some modules on and off depending on the time of day.

The HA commands:

rest_command:
  turn_off_mm_screen:
    url: http://IP:8080/api/monitor/off
  turn_on_mm_screen:
    url: http://IP:8080/api/monitor/on
  dim_mm_screen:
    url: http://IP:8080/api/brightness/75
  undim_mm_screen:
    url: http://IP:8080/api/brightness/100

One of the automations (at night)

- id: '1557033756115'
  alias: Turn on bathroom light at night
  trigger:
  - entity_id: binary_sensor.bathroom_movement
    from: 'off'
    platform: state
    to: 'on'
  condition:
  - after: '23:00'
    before: '7:59'
    condition: time
  - condition: state
    entity_id: light.spejl
    state: 'off'
  action:
  - data:
      brightness_pct: 10
      entity_id: light.spejl
    service: light.turn_on
  - data: {}
    service: rest_command.turn_on_mm_screen
  - data: {}
    service: rest_command.undim_mm_screen

Next step would be to modify rest_command so that I don’t have one for each action, but send a payload that is modified to the command that I want.

I’ve gotten it installed, and it appears when I search for cast units. But when I try to ‘cast’ from Youtube, it fails in connecting.
Has anybody gotten this to work?

@Goldjunge_Chriz said in Two way community order for all european countries - Open until at least 10 people have entered the list:

@fribse said in Two way community order for all european countries - Open until at least 10 people have entered the list:

Has anybody tried to also place light behind the mirror, something like this, or will the light ‘bleed’ into the rest of the mirror?

as far as I know, nobody has tried it yet. but if the light source is directly on the mirror, that should not be a problem at all. A dazzling of light in other regions is excluded.If necessary, close the light gap with electrical tape from the back, then definitely nothing goes wrong :)

That sounds great, I’ll try and construct something then in alu rail, and close it off with electrical tape. I just found out that the cheap old monitor I found and have split to bits will make the mirror fog-free, as it get’s quite hot :-)

Has anybody tried to also place light behind the mirror, something like this, or will the light ‘bleed’ into the rest of the mirror?
I want to place a screen of course, but it would great to also be able to integrate the light itself, without “breaking” the surface.

@str3pto Ok, that worked, I thought it just put it into the existing news item, as it wasn’t shown in the docs that it wanted a position :winking_face:

It would be great to have a MQTT client for integration, that could activate / deactivate modules, blank the screen, unblank the screen etc.

Hi All

I’m on MM 2.8, and the news module has
broadcastNewsFeeds
broadcastNewsUpdates
enabled.
The module is configured like this:

                {
                        module: 'MMM-News-QR',
                        config: {
                                updateType : 'push',
                                interval: 2000,
                                animationSpeed: 2500,
                                colorDark: '#fff',
                                colorLight: '#000',
                                imageSize: 150
                        }
                }

But I don’t see any QR anywhere?

I used the YRThen, and it works nicely, I do think it would be nice to have a fade option, like in many of the other modules.

Add me to the list :-)

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Ok, so I finally got the compliments in danish up and running properly, as well as danish news feeds, danish calendar and current danish weather, I’ll go and have a go with this one now.

@Sean said in How do I get the Google AIY Voice HAT installed so that MMM can use it?:

@fribse
There could be one problem. Your mic and speaker now have same id card 0, device 0 When my module try to close the mic(plughw:0,0) to output sound, the speaker(plughw:0,0) will be closed together at same time, so error will occur.
I heard there is a way to assign different id or alias to devices, but don’t know how to do.

Ok, so it doesn’t use the subdevices to distinguish them, I guess it’s google here I come :-)

So @sdetweil and @Sean

I started over, installed the last stretch.
Followed the guide on the link from @sdetweil , and Weheee:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: sndrpigooglevoi [snd_rpi_googlevoicehat_soundcar], device 0: Google voiceHAT SoundCard HiFi voicehat-codec-0 []
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ arecord -l
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: sndrpigooglevoi [snd_rpi_googlevoicehat_soundcar], device 0: Google voiceHAT SoundCard HiFi voicehat-codec-0 []
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
pi@raspberrypi:~ $

Now I’ll go on, and start over with Magicmirror :-)

Hi @Sean

Thankyou for helping me.

Hmm:

pi@magicmirror:~ $ arecord -l
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
pi@magicmirror:~ $ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: ALSA [bcm2835 ALSA], device 0: bcm2835 ALSA [bcm2835 ALSA]
Subdevices: 7/7
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
Subdevice #4: subdevice #4
Subdevice #5: subdevice #5
Subdevice #6: subdevice #6
card 0: ALSA [bcm2835 ALSA], device 1: bcm2835 IEC958/HDMI [bcm2835 IEC958/HDMI]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: ALSA [bcm2835 ALSA], device 2: bcm2835 IEC958/HDMI1 [bcm2835 IEC958/HDMI1]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
pi@magicmirror:~ $

So the hat doesn’t appear at all as it is.
I guess I could get the AIY image, and start with that instead?
Then it should have the right setup.

@Sean Hi Sean, sorry I didn’t see your post, ok, so I’ll install the ALSA, I guess I can figure that part out, thankyou for chiming in!

@evroom Great, thankyou for clearing that up, I’ll go and get the other download!

@sdetweil Sounds like a plan, I’ll look into that when I have some time again, thankyou! (maybe not for this module, but there are quite a few putting up a fight).

@sdetweil Ok, I see, I just thought of the Voice HAT as a piece of hardware, that should work with everythng :-)

@sdetweil I don’t want two interfaces, I just want to use the Google Voice HAT, and I can’t seem to find an explanation of how to install and use the HAT with the MMM-AssistantMK2

Being a newbie I struggle quite a lot with the configuration of the modules.

Latest example is with the yr forecast, I’ve git’ed the module down, and I’ve added this to the config as per the example:

{
                        module: "mmm-weatherchart",
                        position: "bottom-left",
                        config: {
                                country: "Danmark",
                                area: "Sjælland",
                                city: "Greve",
                                updateInterval: 60 * 60 * 1000,
                                hideBorder: true,
                                negativeImage: true,
                        }
                }

But now the MM is not showing anything (not even that the config is wrong.