@mykle1
Thank you sir. its way too simple and embarassing to post but hey, and honestly i know the other folk can do it better and cleaner, im using this:
http://magicmirrorIP:remote.html?action=NOTIFICATION¬ification=SLIDE_INCREMENT
so i never understood how the notification thing worked. the whole time Im thinking a literal notification. After getting it running through the browser, as opposed to my asinine and naive method (no comment) lol, i needed a way to implement this into my phone app that handles most of its controls. i went old school. and used a link to trigger. simple and effective. I can now control my mirror through my phone app via web interface and clicking.