@MechMatt On second thought, im having trouble with the relay as well… could you post a wiring diagram for the pi, relay, and tv? I’m not the best at electronics

Hey Everyone!
I am trying to use this module to turn off/on a tv and im having a bit of trouble on the physical end of things… I got the module working perfectly (tested it with PIR and hdmi on/off). Now I am trying to use a relay with the PIR sensor to have the TV screen itself turn on and off. I was planning on wiring this to the TV power button (so it is essentially the same as pressing the on/off button).

I got the relay working… and I was about to take apart my tv when i thought…will even work for the on/off button? When it senses movement it will send the signal and then … turn off the tv I guess. As soon as the movement is undetected it stops sending the signal (or really pulse in this case)… just stopping wouldn’t turn the tv back on either. I guess it needs to send a pulse when it stops detecting movement, and then another one when it does again. Am I thinking about this wrong? Should I wire it to something else? Thanks in advance

@nhubbard this is pretty cool… and i was thinking what if you tied it to the weather? For example if rain is forcast, mirror starts raining. Just a thought… nice job regardless :)

@paviro any suggestions on what relay to get for use with this? There are lots of choices on amazon

@zombi27 oh awesome i will have to check this out

Hey Everyone,

I was wondering if anyone had any ideas on a good way to have the monitor/tv turn on and off automatically at specific times. I know there is an auto on/off module for the raspberry pi, but I was thinking this for the screen itself.

My mirror is set up with a non-smart tv that doesn’t have any options for auto on and off. I have a logitech harmony remote that I haven’t had a chance to try yet , but some quick googling makes me think it doesn’t have the auto start functions. Anyone have any (preferably cheap) ideas?

@MichMich Its been on for 24 hours and still looking good!

@EoF I saw a guy posted on reddit his magic mirror with voice control (he is using this build of MM). He posted this link for how he set up the voice activation part:

https://howchoo.com/g/yti5mmq0ntu/add-voice-controls-to-your-raspberry-pi-using-jasper

don’t know if this helps, but maybe worth looking at. It would definitely be cool to say “MM Play Classic Rock” and it loads up.

Also, is it possible to, instead of loading all the music on the pi itself, have it stream from a pandora/spotify type site?

awesome! I loaded it up and so far its looking good (been about an hour so far and usually the overflow problem happens within a few mins). I will leave it on for a while longer and report back if any issues come up.

@MichMich ok. Its also worth noting that I do not have the overflow issue with the clock module in 12 hr format as others have reported. My overflow issue only affects the calendar module.

@MichMich how do you change the calendar to 24 hr? When i set the timeformat variable to 24 it only changes the clock and weather modules.

I know this has been brought up before and is currently being looked at by moment.js people but I thought I could post this as a new topic so anyone that was able to find a solution or temporary work-around could help.

The calendar module has an overflow issue with the dates which displays as follows:

If anyone has any thoughts on this it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

@KirAsh4 ah okay that makes sense.

Since all the calendar stuff is controlled by moment.js, does that mean there is currently no temporary work around to the overflow issue in the calendar?

Thanks for the help!

Playing around with the font sizes I realized the regions can be controlled by how long the text across goes.

I guess my question now changes to this: is it possible to change the style of the calendar text? For example “Tomorrow at 9:30 AM” takes up a lot of space. It would be nice to change it to something like “Tmw at 9:30AM” or just “Tomorrow”

Also, while we wait for the folks at moment.js to hopefully find a solution for the 12 hour overflow problem I had tried to set everything to 24 hr format. However, I cant get the calendar to go to a 24 hr format. I changed the timeformat variable to 24 in the config, but it doesn’t affect the calendar times (just changes the clock). Is there a different way to change these?

I realized this turned into more of a calendar module post. I can repost in that section if necessary.

Hi All,

I was hoping someone could help me out with a small issue im having regarding the way the regions are set up. I have a 720p screen im using for my mirror and it looks like it may be designed for a higher resolution so everything is just too big (I think this is the reason but not 100%). I have figured out how to change the text size using the custom css file. What I am having trouble with is the region size definition. For example, the “top right” region is too large and the left to right dimension needs to be restricted. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

@Vendittelli I’ll be happy to assume the role here as the guy who makes sure everything is idiot proof :D

@Vendittelli I wasn’t sure about installing a custom module. I realized it was pretty simple after a quick googling:

Navigate to modules folder
Type: git clone .git

nvm i figured it out lol… someday i wont be pi-tarded

This is so cool! Do you mind clarifying the setup instructions for some of us hardcore newbs? I’m not sure of the correct way to pull your code onto my pi. Everything after that seems pretty clear though (install dependencies, fitbit setup etc).