@Mykle1 said in Small ‘Picture frame’ MagicMirror (first attempt):

The acrylic top plate does look nice, giving it a professional, finished look. One suggestion, and this is just one old man’s opinion. Keep an eye on the temperature, now that you’ve closed the back of the frame.

I’ve been thinking about that too. So I started with a closed plate, monitored the temperature and was thinking about making ventilator holes. Then again the temperature isn’t raising above 40degC. So I think it will be okay. I’ll keep it in mind with a hot summer day, thanks!

Regards Robert

So I made my first MagicMirror.

I’ve included an HC SR501 pir-sensor. This sensor has two potential meters to alter the sensitivity and alter the amount of time the output stays high. Having set the sensibility at “medium”, and the output time at “short”. The short has been chosen to see if the sensor works and seems to give less failures. The off delay time will be set in the module config.

I’ve tested the sensor at several ways. The RPI receives it’s signal and with gpio readall It shows to be at BCM 22, GPIO.3 Physical 15.

Using the MMM-PIR-Sensor (PaViRo) module it “works”. Blocking the sensor and wait for the configured 30 seconds the screen goes off. Removing the sensor blockage, the screen goes on. I’ve altered the delay time from 30 seconds to 5 minutes (note time is in milliseconds) as below:

		{
		module: 'MMM-PIR-Sensor',
		config: {
			sensorPIN: 22,
			powerSaving: true,
			offDelay: 300000,             //in miliseconden
			}
		},

the 5 minutes is because I want the mirror to go off when I’m not at home or a sleep 😉

Having set this it looked like it worked, but after a day the mirror started to misbehave. Go off when I’m walking in front of it, or even worse not go on anymore when standing, waving, dancing in front of it… A gpio readall shows the PIR still works and a sudo reboot solves the problem for a couple of hours.

So I was wondering how do you guys set all the parameters as we have three variables. PIR sensor sensitivity, the PIR sensor output time and the module offDelay. And what can cause this misbehavior?

Thanks in advance,

Regards Robert

Scrolling down on Pintrest a Magic Mirror got my interest. After a small conversation at home we decided to first make a small one. When we like it, we could build a bigger one later on.
So a old 15.6” laptop would provide me with a small ‘picture frame size’ screen. A Raspberry Pi (3) was found on a national trading website (www.marktplaats.nl). Only the electronic parts remained, so Ebay/BangGood/Aliexpress served me well.

The RPI was in first so I could start programming right away. I have an electrical background, so programming wasn’t the easiest thing to do. Then again I must say there is a lot documented, which was a huge help. After a friend showed me to use PuTTY and WinSCP it all went a lot easier.

I wanted to make a small and clean mirror with a frame made out of wood, yet thin. I made most of my furniture at home, so wood would fit in quite easy. Also I wanted to have no cables other than the power cable.

Parts used:

• Rasperry Pi3 – Model B
• 230V -> 12V – 3A AC-DC converter
• 12V -> 5V – 5A DC-DC converter
• HC-SR510 PIR-Sensor
• 15cm HDMI cable
• HDMI – LCD Controller board
• 3mm thick two-way mirror acrylic

Build Process:

Programming

Made a wooden frame. 120cm x 31cm x 5cm - beam is 2cm thick

It does shimmer like crazy

I had to change the PIR sensor to make it fit in the 5cm high, 2cm thick frame. Soldered the sensor off and put some wires in between

Finished product: “the mirror”. Quit small. Not quite sure if we let it ‘sit’ there or we will hang it.

Finished product: “the magic”. Doesn’t shimmer that much, but that’s due to the mobile phone pic by night and low light.

Finished product: “the brains”. Made an acrylic top plate. Doesn’t do anything more than looking nice.

Best Regards,

Robert

The Magic Mirror is a bit new for me. But I got all preferred parts working.

The calendar now shows:
“event tomorrow 08:00”

I would like to see:
event monday 08:00 till 10:00

My code is as follows:

		{
			module: "calendar",
			header: "Kalender Robert",
			position: "top_left",
			config: {
                                maximumNumberOfDays: 7,
				maximumEntries: 8,
				displaySymbol: false,
				dateFormat: 'ddd-Do-MMM'
				fullDayEventDateFormat: 'ddd-Do-MMM',
				urgency: 0,
				getRelative: 0,
				timeFormat: 'absolute',
				calendars: [
					{
						symbol: "calendar-check-o ",
						url: "https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/*PRIVATE CODE*/basic.ics"
					}
				]
			}

Can anyone point me in the right direction of changing the time format?

Best Regards and thanks in advance,

Robert