@jcasman Good question! First, the frame: I’d reinforce the corners rather than running struts across the middle. I thought the struts would be dual-purpose, holding in the display as well as strengthening the frame, but as you can see in the pics the frame is bulging a little on the left side. I think I’d strengthen the corners and then just put a couple of blocks about 40% of the way down to hold the display in place. These would be screwed to the side of the frame rather than running the full width or depth across to the other side.

Second, I’d fully disassemble the display, taking the LCD controller and power circuitboard out of their metal housing, to decrease bulk and weight.

Third: shorter cables. Everything I’ve used for power, usb, etc on the back side is what came with each piece, so a full-length power cord, full-length USB, full-length HDMI… All of that adds bulk. I’d get the shortest versions possible next time.

Fourth: glass mirror. While the glass+mirrored film works, it was a pain to get the film to adhere properly, with bubbles or cat hair in between it and the glass, and took a long time to fully cure. The end result, as i said, works, and the text is quite legible through the film, but the mirror does have a bit of a funhouse effect (note top of door on the left).

All said and done, this gives me a great idea of how a finished version could look and it lets me move it around to try different positions, walls, rooms, etc. Doesn’t feel like I wasted any time and I’m not really out of pocket for any of the parts except the film.

I’m loving this module. I found, however, that I was getting multiple results for some airports where the METAR had changed more than once in the last hour. That was easily fixed by editing the .js to add ‘&mostRecentForEachStation=true’ to the end of the url. And because I’m not a pilot, I couldn’t remember what the red, blue, green, etc colours meant, so I hardcoded those in as well. Much more useful to me now!

Hello,

Upgraded to MM v2.7.0 (backed up first!) and npm start dev shows the following error:

Cannot find module '/home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-AssistantMk2/node_modules/grpc/src/node/extension_binary/electron-v3.0-linux-arm-glibc/grpc_node.node'

I believe this is detailed here at the bottom under the heading “downgrade grpc to v1.13” but I’m not experienced enough to know if this will also work with MM v2.7.0. Anyone tried it yet?

@DarrenHill Are you #&%*ing kidding me?!? An n? That’s what’s been driving me nuts? Aaaaaarrrrrrgggghhhhhhhhh!

It works now.

Thank you all very much for your help. Even when I gave up, you guys didn’t, and I appreciate that.

So here’s my first attempt at a smart mirror using MagicMirror. I’ve had it displayed on a monitor rotated 90º for about a month while I tweaked the modules and researched mirrors. Given that…

• it is my first attempt
• I’m not very handy with tools
• I wanted to get a feel for it quickly
• I wasn’t sure about final placement in my apartment

…I took the cheap route. I had an Ikea picture frame lying around that has a glass insert and used a small monitor that work was throwing away. I bought mirrored film and applied it to the back of the glass as the instructions indicated. This was by far the worst step. The sides of the film kept rolling up on me. It isn’t perfect, but I didn’t expect it to be the first time around (see bullet points above). I’m happy with how it functions, though, so building a better frame and using proper two-way glass next time will be my focus.

Lights off:

Lights on:

I need to get a usb-powered speaker so I can actually hear MMM-AssistantMk2, but the usb microphone plugged into the back of the monitor picks up my voice quite well.

Thoughts?

@sonicgoose A complete system reboot seems to have fixed whatever issue existed.

@banbutcher You’re right, it sorted itself out this morning. That’s really weird. The guy who wrote the module isn’t maintaining it, but it would be nice if someone who knows code could take a look at it and fix it. Not a big issue but certainly annoying!

I’ve had MMM-GoogleFit installed and running just fine for the last month or so, but I noticed yesterday that it wasn’t updating properly. Yesterday was Wednesday, but it already had data populated for the day that was incorrect by quite a lot. Anyone else having any trouble with this module? This was prior to the MM update yesterday, and the update to MM did not resolve the issue.

That looks suspiciously like the controller board I ordered off eBay and which didn’t work. Power to the monitor was fine, the backlight would turn on, but no signal through the LVDS cable. After much back and forth with the seller, including confirmation I had given them the correct LCD model number and confirmation they had shipped the correct board, they shipped me a second one, which also didn’t work. So I bought one off a different eBay seller that unbeknownst to me worked in the same warehouse as the first seller, so the third controller also didn’t work.

After many months of trying different things, I finally tracked down the source of the problem with the help of a friend. The controller boards are soldered to output 16:9, but the display I had was natively set to 16:10. There was no way in hell it was ever going to work.

Thanks for the suggestions, @bhepler. I’ll try these tomorrow.

In assembling my mirror, I somehow managed to rip off this small piece of circuitry from the side of my display. It connects to the lcd matrix and provide power to the bottom third of the monitor. As it stands now, I can see only the top two-thirds of the display, so the monitor isn’t totally dead. You can see the other two pieces if you follow the wood with your eyes. It’s just a thin piece that attaches to (I think) the front side of the lcd matrix, but I don’t know if it can be repaired. Suggestions?

@sdetweil I’m limited by the length of the wires attached to the boards, so mounting to the case, which is plastic, is not an option. They have to be mounted to the back of the display, which is metal.

I’m working on a revise to my smart mirror (original is here) using legit glass instead of acrylic and mirrored film. Looks sooooooo much better. But I’m wondering now what the best way is to attached the lcd inverter board, power board and my rpi to the back of the display. Wasn’t an issue the first time around because I used a different display with the inverter board and power already assembled on the back. This time I’m using a different display and need to have these boards attached to the back without shorting out. Suggestions?

@Fulcrum1973 In Terminal, edit MMM-GoogleFit.js and locate the line that starts with:

if (weight) {

Insert the following after that line:

 
config.units = "imperial";

So that’s a blank line, followed by the above code, followed by another blank line. Restart MM and voilà, pounds instead of kilograms.

@DarrenHill Are you #&%*ing kidding me?!? An n? That’s what’s been driving me nuts? Aaaaaarrrrrrgggghhhhhhhhh!

It works now.

Thank you all very much for your help. Even when I gave up, you guys didn’t, and I appreciate that.

I’ve done a complete reinstall of MagicMirror, all the modules I had, from scratch, and this one still produces only a list, not nice columns and rows of icons. I’ve officially given up.