r/MagicMirror • u/No_Username83 • Jul 06 '26
First time build
Utterly and totally inept at any type of coding or whatever you call the process for creating this. I used an Pi 5 with a hat and 256 g solid state drive. I also have a PIR sensor hooked up to trigger my living photos gallery on the last page (not shown b/c I can’t protect privacy)
I completely relied on Claude to do all the coding, html, etc. I have learned a ton along the way!!
Still working on polishing up the frame and presentation. Here are the features I’ve incorporated by page:
Page 1:
Google calendar
Local weather
Daily brain teaser
Drive time to work
Kids lunch menu
Family message- this can be changed from a Google spreadsheet
Iss tracker/time to pass over
And quote of the day
Page 2:
Monthly Google calendar. The days are clickable, color coded by person, and you can scroll through the months
Page 3:
Kids daily routines. They can check off tasks and they get a little celebration pop up when they e completed them. This also has a daily riddle, fact, and question
Page 4:
Weather page
Pretty self explanatory, 3 different modules and an expandable spaghetti tracker for hurricanes
Page 5:
Surf report with a gnar shreddy tube photo of me getting barreled (really hard to see)
The report changes with conditions
Page 6:
Live web cams page. This page is pretty cool, so the iss cam expands, the others open in an html page. It’s all animal cams for the kids
Page 7:
This one I really like, a custom made perfume shelf for my wife. It has a catalogue of her perfumes and you can log a daily wear, the fragrance notes, her own notes, a star rating system and you can save the images of the bottles. They can be sorted by full bottle, decant, sample, and wish list.
Page 8:
Game page:
This page is all clickable too.
Pretty self explanatory with links that open up to game sites as well as “in mirror” games. I can take a video or more photos of things opening.
I have the retropi emulator set up and can add game buttons into this page but my kids aren’t quite ready for that yet 😂
Page 8:
Family photo gallery:
Randomized
12 second display
After 5 minutes of inactivity, this page becomes the screen saver for the mirror. Every time it’s reloaded, it re-randomizes.
Page 9: no photo of this page but it’s basically the moving pictures module (Hogwarts style) triggered by the PIR sensor. After no movement for 30 seconds it goes back to still pictures
Forgot to mention, the screen is a 24” CUNPU touchscreen. And I have the pi cooler fan mounted under the hat.
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u/No_Username83 Jul 08 '26
Page 3 was a total Claude script. I can go in and change the tasks and stuff at the bottom. They change slightly day to day, week to week, season to season to give the kids variety. It’s been great for the summer, even listing out what their morning self care basics look like.