@dpenney This is my setup:

This photo is with normal camera:

This photo with PiCamera:

With brightness=90, I tried screwing around with most settings without result.

@dpenney That’s what bugs me:

1. The PiCamera works great normally
2. I can see through the mirror
3. My Nexus 5 camera can see through the mirror
4. The PiCamera can not. (it CAN, but it is waaaay too dark)

@broberg That is a valid point. How would one know what kind of two-way mirror I posess? Haven’t been able to find any “comprehensive overview” of two-way mirrors

@slametps Yeah, I know the camera works well normally. So your camera works by seeing through the mirror from the other side? Did you have to tweak any camera settings or did it just work?

@johnnyboy Do you have any familiarity with webcams with built-in microphone that are small and compact? As to not make the mirror thicker than needs be.

@dpenney Whether the PiCamera is directly behind the mirror, or looking through the mirror through the drilled hole does not matter. The images taken are equally bad

@johnnyboy The thing is that my design is a frameless mirror - hence why I wanted the camera to be able to see through the mirror. But a webcamera that incorporates the microphone was a really good idea as I also intend to some voice command recognition.

I only want the camera for doing facial recognition, so as long as the noir camera is able to get high enough quality for facial features to be distinguished - that will be good enough for me.

Thanks!

Thanks, I think I found the post you mentioned. I should have done better research first…:/ I was just so disappointed with how poorly it worked xD

I know the rpi camera and a phone camera are two completely different things (even though my mobile’s camera is shit) I was just very surprised by how vast the difference was.

Guess I have to procure a NoIR camera then ^^

So I just completed my magic mirror build where I attempted to integrate the rpi camera
I mounted it on the back and drilled a hole for it to see through. However the video feed is almost completely black, and I am not able to make out anything from the footage (it’s that bad). The camera works fine when not placed behind the mirror. I placing my phone in place of the rpi camera and it takes images just fine.

Does anyone have any experience with this? I’m confused as to why the rpi camera fails to see through the dark side of the mirror, while my phone camera can do it no problem?

Thanks!

Hey there.

I’m working on my own module where my DOM consists of some text and an animated gif.

What I want to do is to change the text without refreshing the animated gif.

This function is called with the appropriate argument from the getDom() function:

createHTML: function(text) {
        var wrapper = document.createElement("div");

        var t = document.createElement("div");
        t.innerHTML = text;

        var img = document.createElement("IMG");
        img.src = this.file("glowing-ring.gif");
        
        wrapper.appendChild(t);
        wrapper.appendChild(img);
        return wrapper;
    },

Is there any way to achieve this? I assume the system update the dom because the object returned is a whole new object. Would it work to retrieve the current DOM and simply change the innerHTML of the div and then return the same object. Would the system then recognize that only the text is changing?

Thanks!