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I’m Stéphane from Belgium (Flemmish part). Noob in RPi and MM but willing to learn. :) My job is end user support for a international company, mainly Windows machines. Not building a Magic “Mirror” but it will be more something like a kiosk at home with some info for all house members (The Misses, the almost 3 year old girl and myself[47 years “old”). Still in discovery phase and looking at all modules that I could use. The spare time is filled with some nice motorbike rides in BE, NL or GER :)

Hi all,

That magic mirror thing doesn’t let me go. :)
Got some questions.

I have a wireless remote control that I would like to use for magic mirror. this one

Now I was wondering if I could do multiple things with it. Things like:
1: Change profiles (the misses and me have different taste of modules)
2: Control music that is playing + volume control
3: When screen goes dark, just use the touchpad to wake up screen

It won’t be a Mirror as such but mote a kiosk kinda thingie.
Now my testing is still on the raspberry and a monitor. Nothing hardware build yet. First I want to get the magic mirror as I would like it and then start building the hardware around it.
(Additional speakers, versatile border around screen in some kind of cork material so we can pin pictures on it and maybe control LED lights installed behind the frame)

Kind regards

Uitbergen, Belgium

@MadScientist

After the 4’th re-install of the Ubuntu I’ve decided to go with ded.nodesource setup 8.x. Installed that and waited again for some time for a failure. This time I got a good error message regarding some permissions. There was even a commandline suggestuion on how to fix this. Done the required fix and suddenly the install of MM went onwards.
So yes … now it runs fine. I wanted to test the Globe module and place all our branches on it. That works. Now showing my boss to placed this at the reception desk as an eye-catcher :)
Now I have some small problems regarding the correct display on MMM Globe module. I can’t get the default pins to go away and only leave the ones I have set in the config file.