I received mirror samples (not the touch foil for the moment).

Tried Mirastar, MirroView, and ChromeSpy.

• MirroView permit to view any colour clearly, and without metallic coat, should be compatible with touch foils. But reflection is a little poor, and in dark room, event with luminosity at 0 we can see the black screen. So, should be used for touch capacity and in very light room.

• ChromeSpy has better reflection, but a little “brown”. Much better in dark room, in light room it needs a good luminosity behind. Great for white text on black screen, but not for colours.

• Mirastar has the best reflection, and work really great in dark room. Like ChromeSpy, it needs a higher luminosity in light room. Great for white text on black screen, not for colours too.

So, if we really need touch capacity or colours, MirroView is the best, but a little sacrifice on reflection (not really useful as a real mirror)
If we need a better reflection, no colours behind, and no touch screen, Mirastar is the winner. Maybe need an adaptative script/screen to adjust luminosity in function of room light.
ChromeSpy is near Mirastar, let a little more colours passed, but with a little worst reflection.

So, Mirrorworld Ultra Silver (GX010) is really good ; better reflection than ChromeSpy because more “silver” and less “brown”, and a little better transmitance than Mirastar.

It’s a really little improvements, and it has a cost + a weight, only in 6mm, need a good frame (wood, …)

So, best choice if no touch foil and no need of great colors behind, and with a good hard frame (a lot heavier)

@pnobrega It’s MirroView that doesn’t have metallic coat

I just received a sample of Mirrorworld Ultra Silver, I’ll post a review after some tests

I received mirror samples (not the touch foil for the moment).

Tried Mirastar, MirroView, and ChromeSpy.

• MirroView permit to view any colour clearly, and without metallic coat, should be compatible with touch foils. But reflection is a little poor, and in dark room, event with luminosity at 0 we can see the black screen. So, should be used for touch capacity and in very light room.

• ChromeSpy has better reflection, but a little “brown”. Much better in dark room, in light room it needs a good luminosity behind. Great for white text on black screen, but not for colours.

• Mirastar has the best reflection, and work really great in dark room. Like ChromeSpy, it needs a higher luminosity in light room. Great for white text on black screen, not for colours too.

So, if we really need touch capacity or colours, MirroView is the best, but a little sacrifice on reflection (not really useful as a real mirror)
If we need a better reflection, no colours behind, and no touch screen, Mirastar is the winner. Maybe need an adaptative script/screen to adjust luminosity in function of room light.
ChromeSpy is near Mirastar, let a little more colours passed, but with a little worst reflection.

Hi,

Little update, after a looooot a research, I find a touch foil that should be compatible with Raspberry Pi and its ARM architecture.

Some discussions with the seller later, I bought the XTM-24S (10 touch points, 24", side controller). The seller sent me the touch foil for 50$ + shipping (for me, in France, shipping double the price…)

I’m waiting for glass samples, and when glass + touch foil will be there, I’ll test them all and give you the results :)

FYI, touch foil is : https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/XTM-24-inch-capacitive-touch-screen_62070523970.html

One thing to note :
Touch foil contains some conductive “lines”, they can be visible on a glass, maybe not behind a mirror. I will try it.
For 32" and more, conductives lines are 10 µm ; for smaller size, lines are 15 µm.

Photo from the seller :

Hmpf, I don’t know which touch foil I should buy ; most of them didn’t say if it’s compatible with Raspberry PI ARM architecture…

Yep, but the sample is 9x9 cm, really tiny to test a precise touch… And I didn’t buy the touch foil cuz’ I’m not sure it can work ;)

That’s why I’m ask here if anyone has tried that before :)

Hi !

I read all I can about touch solutions on this forum, and I see that everybody turn to IR frame because touch foil fails on metallic coat of 2-way mirror.

But I search harder because I really want a result without the 1 cm between my wood frame and the mirror…
And Airbars are too small, no 24" :/

Anyway, I change my strategy and search a 2-way mirror without metallic coat.

I thought starting with the Mirropane Chrome Spy, affordable price with delivery to France (from Germany), good reflection, low transmission to get a good result in dark room too (with high contrast MVA monitor).

But Pilkington claims that their Mirroview is made with non-metallic coat, and compatible with touch foil (and, affordable price too) :)

So, I have 2 questions :

• does anybody have already tried to do a touch mirror with Mirroview and touch foil ?
• does anybody have tried to build a magic mirror with Mirroview to tell me if the high transmission (26%) isn’t too high for dark room ? (even with a 3000:1 contrast screen)

I talk about the standard Mirroview, not the 50/50 that should be really “transparent” on dark room, even with a black background on MVA screen…

Thanks !

Hi !
Wonderful !
How much takes the carpenter ? :D

@Fozi For real time application, yep ; with an acceptable delay, recognition could be done online ^^

An offline example for good performance on RPI : https://medium.com/@aiotalabs/deep-neural-network-on-raspberry-pi-c287e06a3250

Would be happy to test that :D

Thank you !

I use Snips, not Alexa; that’s why I already have a ReSpeaker, but it’s like an Alexa device, circular and with directional microphones. Like Echo dot, it is intended to be used horizontally and not vertically… But if you said the results are good enough behind the mirror, I’m going with that :)

Maybe I could take a bigger mirror and let a space at the bottom to have the mic (and its LED) stuck close at the mirror ^^

For facial recognition, what hurts the Pi ? The PiCam itself (so an USB camera should be better ?) or the multiple call to photo / recognition / photo / recognition…?