@uncleroger

If your iFrame doesn’t render, in your HA configuration.yaml file, include the following :

http:
  use_x_frame_options: false

Restart HA first, wait for it to finish, then restart your MM instance to see if the iFrame shows.

I use this older MM iFrame module as it’s straight forward.

Within HA, you can also make use of the Kiosk Mode HACS add-on to hide the header and/or sidebars. Once installed, you simply add the following at the top of your dashboard YAML using the Raw configuration editor ( this step is shown in the vid ).

kiosk_mode:
  non_admin_settings:
    kiosk: true
    ignore_entity_settings: true

If you have solar power or another view of your household electricity use via HA, there’s a super funky card that’s been released : https://github.com/Giorgio866/lumina-energy-card. It can show the flow of power around the house as well as what’s going into the EV. Feel the love for Tron !

@jamesarm

It was a regular off the shelf mirror in a frame. I just removed the actual mirror portion from the frame and replaced it with 4mm tinted glass.

@British_Kiwi

You can also try placing it bottom right and sizing by pixel count, increasing gradually until you reach your monitors full(ish) resolution

I haven’t tried full screen. But one of my configs looks like this :

                {
                        module: "iFrame",
                        position: "bottom_right",
                        header: "HOUSE STATISTICS",
                        config: {
                                url: "http://192.168.1.4:8123/mm-dash-right",
                                        width: "410px",
                                        height: "215px"
                }
                },

If I increase width, the iframe expands to the left. If I increase height, it expands up. Worth a shot.

@British_Kiwi

Try the following :

In your HA configuration.yaml file, include the following

http:
  use_x_frame_options: false

Restart HA first, wait for it to finish, then restart your MM instance to see if the iFrame shows.

If not, give this this older MM module a shot. It’s more straight forward than iFrame Ping and it works with custom button cards ( i use them in my notification area ).

Within HA, you can also make use of the Kiosk Mode HACS add-on to hide the header and/or sidebars. Once installed, you simply add the following at the top of your dashboard YAML using the Raw configuration editor ( this step is shown in the vid ).

kiosk_mode:
  non_admin_settings:
    kiosk: true
    ignore_entity_settings: true

@British_Kiwi

I too use HA in a container on Synology. I make the dashboards within HA and use iFrame’s to display them on the MagicMirror. This way you can make the dashboards as pretty as you like. You really don’t have limits.

To get some idea :

https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/19738/home-dashboard?page=1

Initially I was running an older version of MagicMirror and I had to add the following in the configuration.yaml file of Home Assistant to have them to display :

http:
  use_x_frame_options: false

To be fair, I haven’t tried excluding this since I rebuilt the MagicMirror using the latest build at the time. But it’s still in there today and isn’t causing any harm. It was more a HA workaround in any case

@sdetweil

Many thanks for the input. I’ll have a tinker when I find a gap and explore the commands and their respective soft switches. Just so that I’m future proof !

@sdetweil

Thanks for the heads up Sam.

I’m currently running Bullseye with kernel 6.1.21-v7+ and it still works in this revision. Admittedly I didn’t try with Bookworm as when I originally tried it ( Bookworm ) at launch, the VNC server had gone away on account of Wayland and alternatives were…interesting back then ( didn’t do too much research at the time to be fair ). So for this rebuild I just stuck with Bullseye.

2 quick questions for my own edification :

1. For Bookworm. Could the commands I listed for vcgencmd simply be replaced with wlr-randr --output HDMI-A-1 --on and wlr-randr --output HDMI-A-1 --off ( assuming HDMI port 1 ) for the same result ?

2. Another option according the the almighty but not always correct ChatGPT is to switch to X11 and then vcgencmd would work as expected ?

I have a spare Pi I could test on. I won’t however have time to tinker in the next few weeks. Curse having to adult !!

Really appreciate your input

What you’re describing in Home Assistant sounds like a switch, not a button. They have different behaviours. This is important for what follows.

Initially I had our mirror turning on/off on a schedule using crontab. But when I rebuilt it recently, I too wanted some Home Assistant integration to make this a little more intelligent ( turn on/off with the alarm system for e.g. )

I went a different route and installed an SSH integration in Home Assistant ( there are enough modules on the long suffering Pi 3B+ ! )

Using this integration, any SSH command can be turned into button like so :

If you’re using a Pi, you can use the following in the configuration options of the integration :

The actual code for your ease of use :

- command: sudo shutdown -h now
  name: Turn off
  key: turn_off
- command: sudo reboot
  name: Restart
  key: restart
- command: vcgencmd display_power 0
  name: Turn Screen Off
  key: turn_offf
- command: vcgencmd display_power 1
  name: Turn Screen On
  key: turn_on

That vcgencmd display_power command should work on pretty much an HDMI monitor

This results in a bunch of buttons that you can use in your Home Assistant automations

@Faiek

Howdy !

Initially I looked into real 1-way mirror. But it was just too expensive for the size that I needed in our fair country.

So ! First I tried the DIY route. Picked up some 4mm glass, found some mirror tint film online and gave it a bash ! That film promptly ended up in a ball in the bin :S. It’s clear ( vicious pun ) that I’m handy with woodwork but suck at tinting.

I then took my sheet of glass to a car window tint business and they did a great job. I ended up going with the most reflective film they had as one step down just looked milky. Sadly that business is no longer in operation. But any car tint spot should do.

@seabass Thank you !

I used an old Samsung BX2031.

The secret sauce here is that this particular monitor uses an external AC adapter / power brick. That’s how I could keep everything so thin. The AC adapter sits in the cupboard with the Pi . I simply extended the barrel jack side to reach the monitor through the conduit.

For video signal, I used a DVI to HDMI converter ( similar to pic below ) on the monitor side , and a 5m HDMI cable back to the Pi.

To make space for the power and video connectors, I recessed a wall box ( like those used for your bog standard light switch ) at the end of the cable conduit and lined it all up. So said connectors actually poke back into the wall a fair bit. But the wall box hides that nicely.