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I’ve got mine running on a RPi 4 with (iirc) 4gb of memory which seems to be enough. I’ve got a lot of modules divvied up into 3 pages that are selected via a wee macropad (three buttons & a knob) attached below the screen. (My dev version has 6 pages and I’m waiting on a new 6-key macropad so I van put that on the main system.)

I don’t have it behind a mirror; it’s just in a wooden frame.

I (and my family) add stuff to our calendars on our computers/phones; the MM is only for display. If I didn’t have to waste 8+ hours a day at the stupid job thing, and if I had more money (college in the US is outrageously expensive), I would try to get touch working so as to be able to go to the next/previous month on the calendar (MMM-CalendarExt3) but I’m happy with it as is.

I don’t worry about profiles – mostly everyone looks at the dinner menu (I have a google calendar just to say what I’m cooking for the next week or two) or the main calendar. Those are on the first page.

So, based on what you said, I would suggest getting yourself a basic RPi – I think the Pi Zero 2 is a little underpowered, but it’s doable – and an old monitor and start playing with it. Worry about installation and all that once you have it showing what you want and working the way you’d like it to.

I’m fortunate in that I have an extra Pi so I have a copy running on it that I can play around with without breaking the one in the kitchen that everyone looks at.

@sdetweil

So put an iframe or webview on the MM to point to an HA user with that card as its only view?

Something like MMM-SmartWebDisplay or MMM-WebView?

Thanks again!

@sdetweil
Sorry for the late reply; it turns out you install it via HACS and then install the integration (or something like that). I thought I only needed to do the first part.

Thanks for your continuous patience and assistance!

@KristjanESPERANTO

As a heads up, MMM-SFMuniBusTimes (https://github.com/vikramraja1995/MMM-SFMuniBusTimes) no longer works due to Muni switching APIs. I’ve looked at it and have info about the new API but, honestly, I’m like a bumblebee in the deep end of a swimming pool.

I don’t know if this will work for you but I’ve set up a google calendar called “Dinner Menu” that I use for planning meals for the week. I enter an all-day event for each day with the main dish and, occasionally, sides. Actually, I mostly duplicate previous events as I’ve put the ingredients in the description for most of the meals to help with planning the weekly shopping.

I’m now setting up a MagicMirror and am using an instance of the stock calendar module to list the next 7 days of dinners. (One of the primary reasons for setting this up is to get my son to stop asking “What’s for dinner” every day.)

Here’s what it looks like on the MM:

Actually, that’s from a few days ago; I got rid of the icon on the left for a cleaner look. So far, it’s pretty much solved the problem and it’s not even properly set up yet.

I haven’t looked into recipe modules yet; I might look for a calendar module that can show the description for an event to show today’s meal and the comments I’ve entered for it (usually a list of ingredients) but that’s down the road.

Description:

One of the main reasons I wanted to build a MagicMirror was to have an easily accessible list of family members, doctors, and medicines in case of an emergency. I saw how much time it took for EMTs to try and gather that info for my mother-in-law and even then we weren’t 100% certain that the info was correct. So I built a module to display an address book.

In addition to family contact info, medical providers, and medicines we take, I use it to list travel memberships (mileage numbers and such), subscriptions and login info (Netflix, Spotify, etc.), and Utilities with account numbers and contact info. I’ve also added an instance listing our political representatives and important government contact info as we fight to slow the descent into totalitarianism.

It’s pretty flexible, I think, so hopefully others can put it to use.

Screenshots:

A single-column instance

A two-column (the default) instance showing family contact info. (Until recently, we had two kids away at college, so a lot of different addresses)

Download:

Github for MMM-AddressBook

Description:

I initially wanted to create a legend for MMM-CalendarExt3 to show which calendar is what color (I show 11 calendars of the 15+ I maintain) so I created this module to put a little table below the calendar.

I’ve since added another instance to list a chart of who’s supposed to set the dinner table on which night.

I’ve tried to make it flexible enough in terms of formatting but I’m certainly no javascript programmer. Nor am I well versed in the ways of CSS.

It’s useful to me; I hope it’s useful to others as well.

Screenshots:

A legend for CalendarExt3 calendars:

A table of who’s supposed to set the table (half the time I end up doing it):

Download:

[card:Unclearogre/MMM-CustomTable]

I’m not sure how that card is supposed to work so here’s a link:

Github for MMM-CustomTable