Hello! I’m Robert, an aeronautical engineer, enthusiast builder and programmer.
I like things that help to improve our life. And I love to build them.
When I’m not sitting in front of a monitor or at a workbench, I like to fly small airplanes, make music or explore this beautiful planet with my little family.
When I first run into the Magic Mirror project I was convinced this was something I wanted to build on my own. Without the amazing work and the easy to use framework by Michael Teeuw and this forum, this wouldn’t any possible to archive. And yes, this was real fun!
Checkout my blog on http://www.robstechlog.com/building/ for more details.
Several modules like the ones for face recognition, speech recognition or even streaming from webcams bring the Raspberry Pi 3 to it’s performance limits by max out it’s memory and cpu. I found some older topics where several alternatives where named. Unfortunately those post were abandoned like half a year ago and really hard to read, due to the overlapping conversations.
I really want to find a powerful alternative to the Pi3. Perhaps the experienced builders can briefly share what they have done for experience with your alternatives. I think the following criteria are interesting.
Everybody else please don’t forget to up vote the contributions of those who share.
in Total: about 40 $
85.60mm x 56mm x 21mm
OS: Raspian
Is able to run:
bash -c "$(curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/master/installers/raspberry.sh)
like ASUS H110T/CSM LGA 1151 Intel H110 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Thin Mini-ITX Motherboards
in Total: about 300 $ (depending on components)
1702mm x 1702 x 25mm
Operating System Support:
Is able to run:
bash -c "$(curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/master/installers/raspberry.sh)
Two little modules for the Magic Mirror to include beautiful graphics generated with grafana.
It’s for your graphs! The data that’s currently displayed on my mirror using the MMM-GrafanaCharts is a weather forecast for the next two days.
If you’re interested in building you own weather chart, check out my blog post Programming your personal weather chart.
Gauges are extremely helpful to monitor individual values and their deviations from the nominal value. With the MMM-GrafanaGauges vital values of my plants are displayed on the mirror.
I found I nice website to share constructions online, its’called Onshape.
If someone is interested in the metal frame model. It’s available here.
@cowboysdude
I just updated the summary post, could you please check, if there is everything correct?!
I just found this source here and thought about this module.
http://earth.nullschool.net/
@dfuerst
By now brushtimer.js has already the whole logic the of the final modul implemented. It’s working like this.
What you need to set up in your attempt is a timer. When you detect your mac-address you start your timer. And when its gone, stop it.
Here is a clock object you can integrate and use. You can use Clock.resume() to start/resume the timer or Clock.pause() to wait. If you want to reset use Clock.Stop()
Everytime the clock-timer is changed you fire a sendSocketNotification('TIMER_UPDATE', totalSeconds) like int the MMM-NetworkScanner-project with sendSocketNotification('MAC_ADDRESSES', macAddresses) to inform the main module an show it to the mirror-screen.
var Clock = {
totalSeconds: 0,
start: function () {
var self = this;
this.interval = setInterval(function () {
self.totalSeconds += 1;
console.log(Math.floor(self.totalSeconds / 60 % 60) + ':' + parseInt(self.totalSeconds % 60));
}, 1000);
},
pause: function () {
clearInterval(this.interval);
delete this.interval;
},
resume: function () {
if (!this.interval) this.start();
},
stop: function(){
this.totalSeconds = 0;
clearInterval(this.interval);
delete this.interval;
}
};
@cowboysdude The Frame was made in small factory in Berlin. The main challenge was to find somebody with free capacities in the next three month!!
Seems like it’s a good place for metal processing companies around Berlin!
@cowboysdude
Thanks for your answer.
Could you please share a link which mini itx board board you’re exactly using?
@schlachtkreuzer6
Hey guys,
I was able to cut the white bar by cutting the last pixels (depending on the image size) from this image with adding the following to MMM-Globe.js
getDom: function () {
var wrapper = document.createElement("div");
if (this.config.style == "europeDiscNat") {
wrapper.style.height = 0.98 * this.config.imageSize - 1 + "px";
wrapper.style.overflow = "hidden";
}
var image = document.createElement("img");
@lavolp3 Thanks for your post. I will have a look into this, hopefully in the next week! I’m still convinced we should build this module.
@planet4 Hey, I just tried it with the actual Grafana v6.0.1 (commit: 0c44a04)
It worked for me without any adjustments.
Maybe I can support you, to set it up.
I’m still hoping some genius starts to hack the protocol. This is the tricky part. Once this is done, building a module for the MM-framework is a walk in the park.
@sceletus
Enable authentication in the [http] section of the configuration file /etc/influxdb/influxdb.conf :
[http] enabled = true bind-address = ":8086" # change to a specific interface if needed auth-enabled = true # will enforce authentication
everything is described in the tutorial on http://robstechlog.com/2017/06/30/personal-weather-chart-module/
Hey @matteodanelli ,
thank you for this great module.
I added an alternative display mode to see the changes within the logo view.
I made a pull request. Here are the changes:
A touch display of this size is a big cost factor.
In addition you would always have some fingerprints on the mirror.
A better solution is maybe a gesture control.
@Arthur
Not by now, but definitely before Christmas 
@fox Yes, this script is responsible for getting the data into the database.
If you would like to show other data with Grafana, you need to save the data you get from your sensor.
@fox
Short answer: No, not the direct way.
Long answer: You need to write your temperature data into a database which is connected with Grafana. Then you can use this module to display your graph created by grafana.
One possible solution: This tutorial shows an example, on how to store weather data from an external source in a local influxdb database, which is connected to grafana.
You could reuse the example code an edit it, to get your data stored in a influxdb database.