Hi,

I have been wanting to create a digital dashboard that would display google calendar with monthly event overview as well as daily view, time, weather, to do lists, maybe show commute time or live traffic etc. Essentially things that I might need to see for home life and work management.

I tried looking into Magic Mirror - and it looked way too complicated.
Then I tried Dakboard, and it’s a horrible subscription model that gets you to pay monthly for something that should only be paid for once - I can’t justify that.
I looked back into magic mirror and installed Magic Mirror OS - but having spent a full day on it I’m still at the same default calendar screen…
I once again, I started looking into alternatives and came across a post from 8 years ago where someone said they just created a webpage and ran that with custom CSS and all on the Raspberry.

My question is - if that is an potion (and I can edit a page with front end tools and even css very easily), why would Magic Mirror be needed ?

Or are there drawbacks to that method, maybe it doesn’t work any more as I couldn’t find any information on it apart from that post?

Any help would be appreciated as I do really feel stuck here…