If the transmission ratio is too high you will just have some kind of “mirror glance”. The mirror glas has to fit to your environment. So nobody can tell you if this glas is fitting exactly. Maybe you get a sample of it upfront.

I got 2 years ago some samples with diferrent transmission ratios. Was very helpful for me before ordering something with the try and error approach ;-)

I’m not sure if the depth of the mirror does matter in this regard. I using the thin version due to the lower weight.

It depends on the 8%-value of the transmission of the mirror. If you select a different mirror type (with higher % ) you will see it better in the sunlight. But then you will see probably the backlight of the screen through the mirror with closed shutters.

@a94marbo OpenGL driver is activated?

@janip Did you activate the Open GL driver? Otherwise electron possibly leads to the described “overheating”.

I also would like to order a mirror glas. As i’m living also in schweinfurt, i would pick it up by my own. When I have my needed size i will make a additional comment.

Sounds strange but did set a system time?
Sometimes it’s messing around without.

@Blamer So either you get a bright screen or you can just use it in a dark room

@Steff next time try it with the other buzzwords.
I think pilkington glas is just a brand. So if they don’t have a distributor, which sells pilkington, you have a problem.

For what did you exactly ask?
Spionspiegel?
2-Wege-Spiegel?
Venezianischer Spiegel?

I made the experience that most off the glaciers had no clue but after i explained it or used the names above, they had some solution for me…

Did you comment out something with #?

@meteor007 I would start first with reading through the forum. Cause it won’t be that easy to implement all what you want. So first be sure, that you are able to bring the effort to go the “extra” mile for a DIY-Magic Mirror. In case you recognize, that you haven’t the time or interest, I saw a thread about a Magic Mirror on kickstarter…

I’m not sure, what you really want to know.

• Raspberry pi?
• MagicMirror-Framework based on node.js or just your own solution if it’s just the video
• Motion Detector is connected with Pi-Pins / alternatively maybe ITTT and then push?

We should gather all the relevant information and combine them in a big tutorial.
For example i also miss some reference to unclutter to hide the mousecursor.
For early beginners it should be as easy as possible… Maybe i will work on that the next weeks. :-)

I had the same troubles. The only thing that worked was:

@chengstark said in Screen keeps going to black after a few minutes.:

run
nano /home/pi/.config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart
Comment out (put a # in front of) the lines that are already in the file and add these 4 lines.

@xset s off
@xset -dpms
@xset s noblank
@midori -e Fullscreen -a http://localhost/MagicMirror/index.php

This will disable the screensaver and start the magic mirror on boot and skip loading the LXDE GUI.

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the only problem with this is, that you deactivate the GUI. (without commenting out the lines, it didn’t worked in my case…)

EDIT: the @midori-line can be skipped :-)

@strawberry-3.141 Thank you! Now it works very well!
Don’t know why i didn’t thought about height & width before :D

@strawberry-3.141 sorry for my wrong explanation.
I just want to reduce the whole margin because my display is to small for weather + clock.
So i tried to reduce it with the tags:

• margin: xxx

• margin-left: xxx in combination with margin-right: xxx
  both didn’t work.
  I had the problem that everything just moved to the left instead of providing more space.
  So i had at the right a huge blank space which wasn’t my plan… (Check the attached picture)
  Thank you for your help!
  

Did it work? I tried it aswell and have the problem, that i just adjust the left-margin?
(tried it with custom & main.css)

Can someone help? :-)

@Truthhy
I would say round about 20%. But maybe also someone else can give feedback.