I have still not made any vent holes to get rid of the heat from the monitor. I took a photo with my heat camera to see the change. Will post the photo after the vent holes soon. Notice that my reflection is generating some heat.

I did some tests and here is my results. However my PI is located on the other side of the wall and not in the frame.

PI Without heatsink and with

With vent holes

Without holes

Just wanted to share my mirror. The original guide (in Swedish) is available at www.planet4.se. More details written there.

The things I have done is to:

• Build the frame
• Mount it in the wall
• Added better cooling
• Changed to real Mirrorpane glass
• Sprayed the frame instead of the initial paint and 3d printed a raspberry case
• Connected it with Home Assistant and Alexa

THE FINAL RESULT

FRAME
First I built the frame. I used a 24" monitor. I used a slightly bigger glass. My frame is 43*20 mm. Something like in the images below. I was worried about the heat so I took an image with my heat cam.

In wall mount

We just changed our kitchen and removed all walls. I got the idéa that maybe it was possible to mount the mirror in the wall. I also noticed the vent was just beside the hole and after some tweaking I was able to connect the vent coming from outside to the mirror frame.

Mirrorpane glass

I had film before and the difference is amazing. The glass is 6 mm thick. It costed me 60€. It is 40*56 cm. The negative things are:

It is thicker
It has a slightly red tone
More light is shining through

My mirror is larger than the monitor. This means light may shine through at the sides. I have put a black paper at the sides. In total darkness the screen is a little bit gray and the sides are black.
Changed the contrast and brightness of the screen to fix this.

Sprayed the frame instead of using paint and printed a raspberry case. Used my ANET A8 3d printer to make a case.

Connected it with Home Assistant och Alexa

I am using the MMM-Remote Control. Maybe there are better solutions. I can now say Alexa, Reboot my magic Mirror or Alexa, Shutdown Magic Mirror. Or if none is home the monitor will be turned off. The code is found on my site.

Ok, Here is my Mirror. Still some minor adjustment to fix but it works fine. Thanks everyone here for idéas and inspiration.

I use (amongst others)

RSS Feeds for the food in Swedish schools
Wunderlist
Resrobot
Remotecontrol

And it is connected to my Synology Survelince station connecting with the HTTP post of the Remote control module commands. If I switch on my camera the screen will switch off.

My project log is here (In Swedish)
http://www.planet4.se/

I have some images here. I did a 3d print as well.
http://www.planet4.se/magic-mirror-deluxe/

Ok, Almost there. The gauge shows perfect on my mirror. Influx and Grafana is setup. I get the data from this sensor. http://aeotec.com/z-wave-sensor.

However I still get the grey/brown background on the mirror. Tried to set it to transperant and also modified the css files as described in a post before here. It is just not black. Any smart ideas?

I added some space on each side on purpose. The monitor is smaller. (24") Not sure now if that was a good idéa. I used foil and there will be bubbles. Did it several times but is is hard to make it perfect. I have just made a test and I might change the layout later. It is more difficult to change the frame it self…

@jopyth Thanks for your reply. Was able to solve it like this: (in a switch in home assistant) I can now say, Alexa, Hide all modules.

/usr/bin/curl -O “http://192.168.0.XX:8080/remote?action=HIDE&module=module_2_clock” -O “http://192.168.0.77:8080/remote?action=HIDE&module=module_3_MMM-Skolmaten” -O “http://192.168.0.77:8080/remote?action=HIDE&module=module_4_calendar” -O “http://192.168.0.77:8080/remote?action=HIDE&module=module_5_calendar” -O “http://192.168.0.77:8080/remote?action=HIDE&module=module_6_calendar” -O “http://192.168.0.77:8080/remote?action=HIDE&module=module_7_currentweather” -O “http://192.168.0.77:8080/remote?action=HIDE&module=module_8_weatherforecast”

Tried this and it works fine. The simple way to show temperatures is this:

The more complicated but more fun way is this:

I have tried to use Grafana before but had problems with headers etc. Thanks to this module most problems are solved.

I get the data from my z Wave sensor http://aeotec.com/z-wave-sensor. This is connected to a raspberry running home assistant. On another raspberry I use influxdb and grafana. Home assistant is sending influx data to this PI. On the thirs Raspberry i run Magic mirror and the result is displayed. The only issue is that in dark light you can see the border and background in the graph even if it is set to black. Maybe this is just a feuture of the mm and the screen.

I also tried to use the same module to display if the door is locked or unlocked. I also get the data from home assistant.

Just wanted to share how I use Alexa to control the mirror. I use Home Assistant together with Node Red. With the MMM remote module I can restart, hide or do whatever I want. I send the coammand via HTTP get from Node Red.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9szW-2Sy7-4

I have some images here. I did a 3d print as well.
http://www.planet4.se/magic-mirror-deluxe/

@teitlebot I am using Home Assistant as well but Grafana is not used as an add-in on Hassio. I have it on a separate docker container. However I gave up Grafana in the end. It was to much problems. Now I use MQTT to get all information I want from Home Assistant to my Mirror. Like this:

http://www.planet4.se/magic-mirror-info-via-mqtt/

I did it with Node Red and Home Assistant. A little bit overkill but it works.
http://www.planet4.se/alexa-controlling-home-assistant/

I was so happy to get this working so I wanted to share. I am now showing solar production on my mirror. Have posted this in swedish but you can translate this.

http://www.planet4.se/solceller-del-3-grafana-home-assistant-och-magic-mirror/

Basically it is: solarpanels->fronius inverter->api->home assistant->influx->grafana->magic mirror

@SvenSommer Thanks for replying. I was actually able to solve it but with version 6 of Grafana black background is more of a trouble. Wrote a short post about this as well.

http://www.planet4.se/grafana-in-magic-mirror/

I am now able to show my Solar production on my mirror. 0,36kW. Will post this in the show my mirror as well. Thanks.

Thanks for doing all the work. Just upgraded. However I had problems before waking and sleeping the screen and before I was able to change this in the node_helper.js to use:

vcgencmd display_power 1 instead of tvservice. The command works via ssh but when I tried to change like below the screens sleeps but I can not wake it up via the remote.html menu. Anyone with the same problem?

 monitorControl: function(action, opts, res) {
            let status = "unknown";
            let monitorOnCommand = (this.initialized && "monitorOnCommand" in this.thisConfig.customCommand) ?
                this.thisConfig.customCommand.monitorOnCommand :
                "sudo vcgencmd display_power 1";
            let monitorOffCommand = (this.initialized && "monitorOffCommand" in this.thisConfig.customCommand) ?
                this.thisConfig.customCommand.monitorOffCommand :
                "vcgencmd display_power 0";
            let monitorStatusCommand = (this.initialized && "monitorStatusCommand" in this.thisConfig.customCommand) ?
                this.thisConfig.customCommand.monitorStatusCommand :
                "vcgencmd display_power --status";
            if (["MONITORTOGGLE", "MONITORSTATUS", "MONITORON"].indexOf(action) !== -1) {
                screenStatus = exec(monitorStatusCommand, opts, (error, stdout, stderr) => {
            

I have used this one https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1523416

Just wanted to share how I use Alexa to control the mirror. I use Home Assistant together with Node Red. With the MMM remote module I can restart, hide or do whatever I want. I send the coammand via HTTP get from Node Red.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9szW-2Sy7-4

I was able to solve the login issues but now its just black. Maybe this module does not work with the new version of Grafana?

@SvenSommer Have not used this module for a while but have now reinstalled Grafana and would like to try it again. However I can not remember how to solve the login to Grafana. I think I opened it up as public the last time but is not an option now. At the moment the mirror just shows erroe as it can not login to the Grafana dashboard. Please advise.