Just wanted to say thanks to everyone. This is an awesome project that even a n00b like me can do (with your help of course). I got the basic set up programming mostly done for my first one, and i’m now looking at experimenting with it. But you all made it so easy with the open source download, and of course how quick you all are to respond on the forums. I’m sure I’ll have more questions, which means I’ll live on these forums for a while.

I’m wanting to get into programming, and even though i’m not programming on this project (just following your all’s great directions), i’m really enjoying the possibilities.

I’m looking into doing the Software development program at WGU, and i’m learning on Udemy to take the MTA network cert, to give me experience for the school. In all honesty the few things I’ve picked up from here, have already helped me learn more than a networking cert feels like it will teach me about Software Development.

I’m hoping to be able to give back one day, by creating a couple mods or donate (when i get out of a dead end job). But that’s down the road, and i’ll always remember creating my very first “Tech” project.

Right now, i’m working on my first mirror. it’s at the very basic stage, but i’m hoping to incorporate the photo slide show on it (so it looks like a picture frame in our living room). This is far down the road, but i’m wanting to install a wireless camera (or even the ring doorbell) on our front door, and hopefully somehow incorporate it into showing on the mirror when someone is there. We live in a split foyer home, and it’d be very handy to have this extra security.

Eventually, it’d like to make other mirrors for the rest of the family. I know my daughter would love a mirror with the Pokemon module, and my girlfriends son would enjoy the Fortnite, Apex Legends, & Overwatch mods. Also I’d like to make one for my bathroom, as i’m about to remodel it, and I think it’d be awesome to have one there.

The work done by everyone is awesome. The amount of mods is so incredible, and there is so many, it’s almost over whelming. I’ll continue to look through everything and try to answer my own questions before bothering you all, but your all’s help is already appreciated it, and I really just wanted to show my appreciation and make sure you all know how much something like this means to other people.

I’ll be honest, I haven’t gotten to test it yet, but it should be the name you made up as you were making your Amazon Dev AVS. Like I used MagicMirror_2.

Just curious if anyone has had a chance to look into this… I’m looking at other mods to work around it, but they just don’t seem as good as this one (you know that moment when you find something perfect).

So I do realize this is telnet too, the security issue is definitely there. This may not be practical, and I understand that. I guess it just rushed to a suggestion.

So I hate requesting mods becuase frankely i’m not smart enough to make them myself, and I hate asking other people to do things, but I actually wonder if anyone could do this (only if there’s interest from other people). I’m taking a MTA networking cert course and I was lead to this telnet exercise. basically you enable telnet on windows and goto telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl in the Command prompt window (I do understand you all already know this and have probably seen it, also i disable telnet immediately afterwards). Anyways it shows you a star wars movie made in text. I find it fascinating. I see it’s also available for Linux. Would it be possible to incorporate something like this into the MagicMirror?

To be honest I think it’s so cool, if it’s not possible, I’m half tempted to run another RPI3 with another screen behind mymirror and just let this run, but it’d be cool to see it in the corner of the mirror just playing a movie.

I’ll be honest, I haven’t gotten to test it yet, but it should be the name you made up as you were making your Amazon Dev AVS. Like I used MagicMirror_2.

I finally got MMM-Awesome-Alexa to work… FYI anyone that needs help should use the following link: Best MMM-Awesome-Alexa Walkthrough

However I was using MMM-Scoreboard to go with it. Now since i got the alexa installed MMM-scoreboard now lists the recent scores horizontally across the screen instead of vertical as it did before. It basically messes up the formatting of the display. Any idea why this happens, and how to fix it? or are just some of the mods not compatible together?

@dazza120 Thanks I’ll give this a go.

I’m having issues with the RPI3 freezing maybe once or twice a week. It’ll mostly do it at night (typically shortly after I go to bed according to where my clock stops), and when I wake up the RPI3 will be kind of hot. I have heatsinks on it, and i’m not sure where to go from here. I’m concerned because it’s in a clear case that came with it, but it’s not even actually in a mirror yet. I still have it running on the table attached to a Monitor. I’m trying to get MMM-Awesome-Alexa to work (and still need my Mic/Speakers) before I’m wanting to make it into a mirror and pay for the mirror.

@ElayHadad I’m having issues as well, but this seems to be the best guide I’ve seen so far. I’m still working on mine, and it’s definitely a process (i’m slowed by family, school, and work).

How-To Geek: How to Add Alexa to Your Smart Mirror

It’d be awesome to have a youtube video guide on this, but I’m thinking part of the issues is the process has changed due to some issues with amazon dev process. If i get it working, i’ll let you know, how and what I did. But I’m still needing to get a mic & speaker in.

Thanks, I’ll look at it tonight.

So I went in this morning and made the corrections, but instead of the typical error, when I started MagicMirror it was black screen that had my mouse cursor on it. The code i used is:

{
  			"module": "MMM-awesome-alexa",
  			"position": "bottom_bar",
  			"config": {
    				"wakeWord": "Alexa",
    				"clientId": "amzn1.application-oa2-client.54a08c41875f4xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
    				"clientSecret": "8ce8425cb89e02a7302a60d27d10b51d2f137d8fxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
    				"deviceId": "MagicMirror_1"
			  }