Thanks!
In general it is a dark place where the mirror will be placed (in the anteroom), it has no window, but because of this, we turn on the light almost always when we are there. So I don’t know what will be better. But it depends on screen brightness also, right?
I think in general when the lights on, it is considered as a normal room.

Hi Everyone!

I have started developing my mirror. However I couldn’t find exact information about which glass will look the best. Should it be acrylic or anything else? The transmittance should be 50/50 or more like 70/30?

Thanks!

Why would you want to power it off?

As others stated these Wi-Fi sockets almost use as much energy as the Pi.
Also, how would you power on the Pi after shutting down?

I don’t think this is a good idea either. This device should be powered on 24/7 so you can use it anytime you want. Powering ON/OFF can reduce the SD card life (during boot and post-boot it not only reads the SD but writes some log and other data to it), can make it much more difficult to use the MagicMirror, etc…
It is better if you control the screen remotely. Like sending a command to the Pi to ‘power off’ the HDMI port, so the screen should go to standy.

Anyway if you want a Wi-Fi plug, then I can recommend this one. It is small, has power meter, etc… However it is available for delivery in January.

However, I would love to see your ‘why’ would you want to do this. I have several RPi running in my house, each has it’s own purpose, but I wouldn’t turn off either of them… It just makes it more complicated, then what you can spare on this.

@mykle1 That’s what I thought of :) Thanks for your help as well!

Hi Everyone!

I want to include in my future smart mirror the ability to use it as a Google Assistant. I have a few of them in my home, but not where my mirror is going to be placed to it will be a great feature!

However I’m somewhere stuck now. Which Google Assistant module should I use?
MMM-AssistantMk2 or
MMM-GoogleAssistantt

What I want to achive is:

• Use as a regular Google Home device, Ok Google hotword, etc…
• User identification (like on the regular Google Home device, so it knows whos playlist should play, whos settings should use when answering)
• Reply via speaker and via the screen (Maybe a notification with the response)

So which one should I use?

Thanks for the help in advance!

@sdetweil
oh really thanks, I have almost forgot that…

Thanks for the fast reply!

Dear Community!

I have (almost) completed my perfect MMM config. Now just on a virtual machine, to test out how it works, etc…
I’m going to make a physical mirror sooner or later. I’m just curious, if somehow I could migrate the whole config to a new platform?

Just copy the MagicMirror folder? I have modules which had to be installed seperately after pulling the repo. I’m not so familiar with Node.js, what it does?
So how can I do it? First I configure the Raspberry, install Node.js, etc… and then?

Thanks!