One of my favorite Modules!!! So Excited that this is officially released! Just installed this one on my mirror again (since my old one crashed lol). Still looks fantastic. Great job!

Last night, I was attempting to install Plex Media Server on my Pi that runs my magic mirror. Followed some instructions and the last step was to reboot. I did, and poof, the SD card was corrupted. Pi wouldn’t boot, just kept erroring out. The moral of the story is, back up your Raspberry Pi. I didn’t and am fully regretting it this morning…Learn from my mistake.

@Advokaten My Pi is in a pretty closed off area, I have 3 small aluminum heatsinks attached plus a small fan. The pi itself never gets above 50c

@cowboysdude I would be happy with that! Still going up on the mirror as soon as I get home!

@Mykle1 said in MMM-Cocktails:

@hartattack said in MMM-Cocktails:

One of my favorite Modules!!! So Excited that this is officially released! Just installed this one on my mirror again (since my old one crashed lol). Still looks fantastic. Great job!

Wow, you just made my day. I’m glad you enjoy it and thank you for your kind words. :thumbsup_tone1:

I updated and annotated the css file so you can shape and color the module just about any way you want to with a simple copy and paste into your custom.css file.

Honestly, I was going to mess with the css this time around, but the default module setup, looks fantastic and works perfectly for my purpose. Seriously, this is such a fun module.

Hello everyone!

My name is Hart and I am 26 from California! I work in software support and am teaching myself some of the development and code aspects of things. I also run a small blog called The Gentlemen’s Society.

I started in the Home Automation world a few years ago when I wanted to make things easier for my wife and have been obsessed since then. I have been wanting a Raspberry Pi, but never pulled the trigger, until I found the MM project! It finally gave me the reason to buy one and now I want more. Got my first “mirror” up and running, which I am using as a dashboard on my TV.

Can’t wait to meet all of you and look forward to the awesome things to come! This is a great community!

@Mykle1 said in How hot does your mirror run?:

@hartattack

I wanted to add a fan from the very beginning although all searches say that the Pi can run without problems up to 80°C or more. That “seemed” hot to me. My Pi was running at 60°C, which is well under the maximum that I discovered. So, I took it upon myself to add a 12v fan (I have spare parts lying around) and connected it to a 5V pin and a GRD pin on the GPIO header. I’ve been running the mirror more than a month without a hitch and my CPU temp is nearly 20°C cooler. Fans are cheap. If you can salvage one, even better. The result is pretty dramatic. Have a look.

I started with a fan and 3 heatsinks from the beginning. Mine runs around 45C and gets close to 50C when doing anything intensive.

I would get the basic MM software up and running, then configure it to what you want to see, then maybe create your own module.

@cowboysdude said in Introduce yourself!:

@hartattack Glad you’re here and love your site!

Thanks you sir! Much appreciated!

@Mykle1 said in How hot does your mirror run?:

@Advokaten said in How hot does your mirror run?:

would any heatsink do on a rpi? I saw one guy who brought the extreme and planted one that was bigger than the Pi itself, lol. He got it down to about 20 Celsius.

I don’t see why not. If it cools the Pi and it doesn’t harm it in any way then it’s good, I guess. Do you have a picture of that extreme heatsink you mentioned? I’m curious to see it.

I saw this one not too long ago!