Hi Everybody,

I am in the process of going to create my very first magic mirror. I plan on locating it in our bathroom and i will be using an hp 23" monitor (E233 Elite display). I plan on powering my pi using the usb sockets in the monitor thus hopefully only having one cable comes out of the mirror itself. I am going to add a speaker at the base to allow music to be played through it to avoid having to put separate speaker systems in my bathroom and maybe add a microphone to allow voice activation. One feature i was interested in and not too sure if this would work would be to integrate an NFC reader into the frame. The idea being is that either myself or the Mrs. taps our phone against the reader and it will play our own playlists. The thing is though she uses apple music and i use amazon music so i’m going to have to find a way to integrate this into it.

That’s the idea anyway, i’ll try to keep you all updated with its progress and of course any comments/suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks
Michael

Cheers. I’ll have a muck about. Using a full environment will probably be the road i go down as server wont be good for the touchscreen for what i want it for and client is of no use whatsoever. I’ll put together what i’m looking for along with the appropriate modules and take it from there.

Thanks
Michael

@sdetweil ok, fair enough. I assumed that the touchscreen to communicate via a server would be a tough stretch. I’ll run it all through it’s own dedicated PI 4 then. I have a 2gb and a 4gb lying around not doing anything so i’ll use one of those instead.

Will i be better using the MM OS or using rasbian and build MM on top of it?

Thanks
Michael

@sdetweil OK, thanks for that. I’ll do some more digging in the Web side of it and see where I can go from there. My programming skills are not great but I’ll have a crack at it.

Cheers
Michael

Hi all,

Apologies if I have posted this in the wrong section.

I’m starting my mirror project again after a few years but I’ve decided to not use a mirror but instead try just a big interactive photo display using MM.

Anyway i was looking to run MM as part of my home server and use a rpi zero 2 to display like in a kiosk function. I was looking to add a camera for facial recognition and an ir touchframe to the display. Is there a way for the zero 2 w to communicate with the server so it knows who’s looking at the camera and to know which module is being touched or which page is being requested through scrolling?

Cheers
Michael

Hi,

Yeah i tried it with Accuweather and still had the same. I’ll try it with openweather when i get home and see what happens.

Thanks
Michael

Hi Guys,

following the downfall of another weather module i was using - “MMM-MyWeather” i am trying to install MMM-NOAA3.

When i run MM i get the below error,

[2020-10-27 21:19:39.201] [LOG]    Sockets connected & modules started ...
[2020-10-27 21:19:39.287] [LOG]    Launching application.
[2020-10-27 21:19:43.002] [LOG]    wu
[2020-10-27 21:19:43.006] [ERROR]  Whoops! There was an uncaught exception...
[2020-10-27 21:19:43.007] [ERROR]  Error: Cannot find module './providers/wu.js'
Require stack:
- /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-NOAA3/node_helper.js
- /home/pi/MagicMirror/js/app.js
- /home/pi/MagicMirror/js/electron.js
- /home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/dist/resources/default_app.asar/mai                                                                                                                     n.js
-
    at Module._resolveFilename (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:627:15)
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/elect                                                                                                                     ron/dist/resources/electron.asar/common/reset-search-paths.js:41:16)
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/modul                                                                                                                     e-alias/index.js:49:29)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:531:27)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:685:19)
    at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:16:16)
    at Class.getProviderFromConfig (/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-NOAA3/node_                                                                                                                     helper.js:128:16)
    at Class.socketNotificationReceived (/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-NOAA3/                                                                                                                     node_helper.js:38:34)
    at Socket.<anonymous> (/home/pi/MagicMirror/js/node_helper.js:112:11)
    at Socket.emit (events.js:200:13)
    at /home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/socket.io/lib/socket.js:528:12
    at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:82:9)
 {
  code: 'MODULE_NOT_FOUND',
  requireStack: [
    '/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-NOAA3/node_helper.js',
    '/home/pi/MagicMirror/js/app.js',
    '/home/pi/MagicMirror/js/electron.js',
    '/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/dist/resources/default_app.asar/                                                                                                                     main.js',
    undefined
  ]
}
[2020-10-27 21:19:43.015] [ERROR]  MagicMirror will not quit, but it might be a                                                                                                                      good idea to check why this happened. Maybe no internet connection?
[2020-10-27 21:19:43.016] [ERROR]  If you think this really is an issue, please                                                                                                                      open an issue on GitHub: https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/issues

Below is my config minus api keys

  {
     module: 'MMM-NOAA3',
 position: 'top_right',
     config: {
 	    provider: "weatherunlocked",       
 	    apiKey: "MY API KEY",  
 	    appID: "MY APP ID",  
 	    airKey: "MY API KEY", 
         css: "NOAA4",                  // THIS MUST CONTAIN A CSS STYLE NAME
 	userlat: "55.861790", //MUST HAVE BOTH
         userlon: "-3.827600",  //MUST HAVE BOTH
  }
      },

I am at a complete loss with this one any help would be appreciated.

Cheers
Michael

Hi Hec,

This is what i am looking to do also, i figure that if you use the PIR and a button module to trigger a button press when the the PIR is activated. I think i saw on the raspberry pi forum that the power to the USB ports can be turned on and off this way however this only works with all usb ports and cant be done individually.

If you come across a better method please let me know.

Hi Everyone,

Just an update on how this project of mine is going. Its been a slow process due to work, trying to get a house buy out the way but i’m making baby steps. i’ve got modules in and i have the system set up to play my playlists using nfc tags. I’m going to countersink 3.5inch marine speakers into the frame, that way the speakers wont be muffled being behind the frame and glass and also they are waterproof which being in the bathroom would be good for condensation i think. I;ve also purchased the doppler sensor in place of the PIR. i’m going to put a LED strip behind the frame as mentioned in other posts and going to figure out if i can have this turn on/off with the screen using the sensor. my programming skills are mostly non exisitent so this will be a challenge in itself.

Anyway i’ll post some pictures when i finally get it all together.

Cheers
Michael

@Bugsounet - Yeah would be but i think that will be another project for another day. I haven’t constructed the physical mirror yet so i’, just trying to set up some modules and stuff using my laptop as a display through vnc first. When doing the construction i’ll be adding a USB mic, radar sensor etc so this will give me some extra things to play with :)

@hango worked a treat thanks