Looks really cool,

But part of the reason that I want to do this myself is to learn. So using MagicMirror2(which is way better that what i will ever make) won’t allow me to learn all the things I want to learn. And making my own seems like a fun project

Hi everyone,

First of all this is probably not the best place to ask this question. Sorry for that!(didn’t know where else to aks it)

As the title might suggest I want to build my own OS for my magic mirror. I want to make more of a smart magic mirror(smart home). It should be able to do the following things.

-I should be able to connect to the mirror from my phone/pc/laptop etc.
-I should be able to turn of lights/play music(smart home stuff).
-I should be able to run python scripts
-It should be highly customizable(because i’ll hope to learn a lot in the next couple of months, so i might change everything)

In general I want the mirror to be more connected to the rest of my devices. It should really be the center of my smart home. I also plan to do some machine learning like face recognition. So it should also be able to run python scripts.

The only problem is that I have 0 experience with web/server development. And therefore I have no clue which software/frameworks i should use to write all the software. What the best way is to setup a server etc. I don’t know if it is smart to use electron or nodeJS or angular because I have no experience with any of them. And I don’t want to waste a lot of time with learning the “wrong” frameworks.

I do however have quite some experience with java and python.

So the main question I am asking is: what is the best way to set a project like this up(server wise) and what frameworks or languages should i learn.

ps. Timewise I am planning to take a year to learn and make everything. Do you guys think that is enough time?

Thanks in advance!