Posts made by yep_DD

@cubesmi that is amazing to hear, glad I could help. And thanks for checking the option with the wires. :)
edit: yes vgencmd does the trick

@flo thanks, I am very happy with it. The tiles on my wall don’t look too nice so I made the mirror as big as possible to cover that. But this design can be adapted to any size. I am guessing it weighs around 10kg. I strengthened the MDF basckplate with epoxy and used these:

to mount it to the wall. Plaster shouldn’t be a problem if you use the correct dowels and instead of two hooks you can use three if needed. Also a smaller size reduces the weight even more.

I need one more person to dismount the mirror. As I don’t want to grab on the glass plate.

I mentioned it before, but this is the frame I used (Nielsen 222):

The 25mm part is attached to doubled sided tape and holds the glas. The small inset is used for 4x4mm Rivets on each corner to screw the MFD backpate on the aluminum frame. Also strengthened with epoxy and a metal plate to distribute the total force.

That’d be the final result. The wire on the first picture I was just too lazy to hide. Just needs to be pushed down.

Second picture shows the news podcast as an ovelay. No unnecessary buttons, PIR sensors or anything else that’d destroy the design.

Side note: I added an automatic Wifi Setup Feature which plays a video when it isn’t connected to a WiFi network and creates a hotspot for initial setup.

@MichMich thanks for the amazing project you created. I have had some people at my home being absolutely amazed by the mirror. I always refer them to the spirit of open source and this great community.

@flo no, the “big” Benq logo is disabled via the developer menu of the monitor. You would only see a small “HDMI1” in the lower right. Yeah, I will post a a few pics in an hour when it is a bit darker outside. Hold on :D.

@flo actually I have not, I power the monitor via my relay and my presence dedection makes me never see the logo so so far there was no need to do that

@secdude I chose 4mm glas because it is already heavy enough to mount the mirror like that.

@nobita just install raspotify https://github.com/dtcooper/raspotify

the easy way (but I recommend reading the docs):

curl -sL https://dtcooper.github.io/raspotify/install.sh | sh

@sharpy400 thanks, I will try immediately. I honestly tried finding a module like that, but that must one I must have overseen.

edit: nope, won’t work, seems spotify has changed the way they give out API keys none of the instructions will work. Spotify Connect Web seems to rely on libspotify which is obsolete.

@raywo Your module is amazing. I am using raspotify on my mirror, which is account independent and I was just wondering if there is a chance of implementing spotify connect meta data (e.g. from using raspotify). Instead of using your account as input for the track info using the output from

systemctl raspotify status

as the track id. And then use spotifys web api to get the song info?

https://developer.spotify.com/console/get-track/?id=1yVhDVRJt9o8DQDU3J6R4X&market=

like this?

That is how I do it, I use a HUE Dimmer Switch and FHEM to control it.

elif self.path=='/down':
            status='Volume down'
            subprocess.Popen(["amixer", "set", "Master", "8%-"], preexec_fn=os.setsid)
elif self.path=='/up':
            status='Volume up'
            subprocess.Popen(["amixer", "set", "Master", "8%+"], preexec_fn=os.setsid)