I know that I can use icons (https://fontawesome.com/v4.7/icons/) but, to be honest, I don’t want to have to remember that my calendar is associated with a ‘bar-chart’ and my wife’s is associated with a ‘battery-full’.
I would prefer to put in M for me and W for wife. Can I do that … or do I have to wait for Mr Icon Creator to create letter based icons?
@sdetweil said in Research for Basic Magic Mirror:
@ruff-hi said in Research for Basic Magic Mirror:
can I put an animated background / wall paper on my magic mirror?
maybe, but rememeber all that animation takes cpu power… nothing is free…
Fair point. I can see my magic mirror having some dark space (side or bottom) and I want to see if I can set it up so that you can’t tell where the screen starts and ends. something like an aquarium with the rocks at the bottom being part of the static (non-screen) area and the fish being on / in the actual screen area.
@peterpang said in Research for Basic Magic Mirror:
The most important thing is :
The monitor need have 178 degree from side or top clear , so many old monitor have reflect way .
Thanks for the post. I read this line a bunch of times … trying to make sense of it before I resorted to google. Searching ‘178 degree from side or top clear’ yielded links about viewing angles and refining my search gave me this …
Who knew that bestbuy blogged?
Now that I understand the comment, this is not the most important aspect for me. A screen where you can see the edge behind the mirror and the ability to show crisp, possibly small text is much more important that being able to read the content from a 65° let alone 89°.
Now … here is a question … can I put an animated background / wall paper on my magic mirror?
As I said above, I am sending the monitor back
Ordered this one from Amazon today - a ASUS VE228H 21.5" Full HD 1920x1080 HDMI DVI VGA Back-lit LED Monitor, Black. There is a picture on newegg that shows the video output facing down :)
The picture also shows a sticker ‘warrantee void if seal damaged’.
@sdetweil said in Research for Basic Magic Mirror:
@ruff-hi said in Research for Basic Magic Mirror:
Another thinner connector goes to the bottom right of the screen (as you look at it) - purpose unknown
probably power…i have 4 monitors that have had the power button on the bottom bezel on the right corner. i am using one now (asus)
It wasn’t power. The power button was on the small board. It is connected to the screen so I am thinking back lighting.
Anyway, monitor all put back together and is being returned to Amazon.
I ordered that screen from amazon. It is now downstairs, largely disassembled. It has a circuit board that has three different connectors.
I don’t think I can connect my RPI to the screen via the cable (different sizes) so I will have to use the HDMI port on the back of the monitor (sticks out, but not too far) and then plug that into my mini-HDMI (RPI 4).
I might be able to take the bezel off the screen but I might just not worry about that … this is a very thin monitor to start with.
@mykle1 - thanks for the post. Good point about the direction of the ports. I will keep that in mind.
No speakers, no mic, no alexa … just a display behind a mirror with a nice wooden frame. I can do the wood part, my RPI is already up and running / I use the IP:port number to look at my MM via a browser … but I would prefer to see it hanging on a wall somewhere.
I am looking at the Acer SB220Q bi 21.5 Inches Full HD as a display part of my MM. Has anyone tried this monitor?
this is impressive … getting started is one thing, finding this forum is a second … the most impressive (to me) is the community help you got.
BTW … pictures would be good :) What size / type of screen did you use?
Debugging is pretty easy.
Turn on your browser console (ctrl-sht-j) and then put log statements in your code.
Log.info('ruff: shipment ’ + shipments.tag)
They will turn up in the log. Aftership was throwing an error when a shipment was pending, the latest history message was trying to display even though there was a check for history = null. I added a check for Pending and now pending displays.