11/13/2023 0 Comments Magic mirror modules 2018![]() Unfortunately I had no luck getting this sensor to work. Gestures was something I really wanted to implement to be able to hide/show things I didn’t want “everyone” to see, like my calendar or technical information like system temperature.Maybe it works good with English, but that is not the language I want to force my family to use. ![]() Voice control is too unstable too, especially since my native language is Norwegian.Don’t work through glass, but I would have had the same problem as camera with blue screen anyway PIR-sensor for turning on/off the monitor.I saw that someone suggested to put a relay on the power to the LCD lights only, but I didn’t want to risk destroying my monitor Unfortunately my monitor turns blue with a message when the display is off and used too long time to turn on again. The idea was to turn on the TV-service on the Raspberry only when someone was in front of it. I had hoped to show some modules, like my personal calendar, only to me Camera for facial recognition was too unreliable to be usable.OK, my Spotify-module didn’t exactly fit this rule, but since I made it (cough) …įundamentally I think an input interface has to work every time and for everyone. I did some testing of different user interaction techniques: My general rule for what should be shown on the mirror is very simple: I don’t want to display “everything” on the mirror, just the important stuff that helps plan the day! If I want to see soccer scores or cartoons I can do that on my laptop or mobile. That made it rather easy to make my first real module for Magic Mirror: Spotify Connect UI (GitHub). I want to be able to listen to music somehow. I accidentally found a Spotify Connect implementation for Raspberry Pi with an HTTP interface. Learning by doing is the way I learn and I needed an idea for a module! My bathroom FM-radio will be rendered useless sometime in 2017 when digital DAB replaces analog FM in Norway. So I decided I had to learn the software things around it before I started to build the mirror itself. Magic Mirror allows third-party developers to create custom modules and it has a growing community of people who builds them.īut in the beginning there wasn’t many third-party modules. I installed it on a Raspberry Pi 3 I had lying around and was up and running in a couple of hours – including setting up Raspian. Then I discovered Michael Teeuw’s Magic Mirror project on GitHub. But I learned the hard way that it didn’t support neither build-in WiFi or the Raspberry Pi camera. SoftwareĪt first I considered using Windows 10 IoT since I’m mostly a Microsoft dude with knowledge of C#. This was just before I would have my 10 weeks parental leave for my second son, so I imagined this was a nice side-project to baby feeding and diaper changing. I don’t remember how or where it caught my attention, but I knew at that time I had to make one! The idea of having key information for planning the day readily available on a mirror, where me and my family looked every morning, seemed fantastic! A while back I discovered the exiting world of “magic mirrors”.
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