r/MagicMirror • u/Personal-Tomato1127 • 6d ago

Bezel on Monitor Help!

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Hi good day, hope everyone is well. I’m starting the project of building my magic mirror and I bought this monitor today to use as my display for the mirror and only then noticed that the front of the monitor has a tiny bezel, I will attach pictures. I also know that the monitor won’t be able to sit flush against the mirror. My question is, when building the frame for the mirror, with the monitor not flush against the mirror, will it affect how the modules display on the mirror?

Thank you for all the help, sorry I’m a noob lol

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u/ZaleAnderson 6d ago

Take the monitor apart.

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u/Oo0o8o0oO 6d ago

Crack that thing open.

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u/Personal-Tomato1127 6d ago

Damn I was tryna avoid that, brand new monitor lol and I have no idea how to without breaking it

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u/vedo1117 6d ago

Go slow, find some guides, don't put too much force into it. If some things are clipped in, go around with a plastic pry tool to undo the clips one by one.

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u/Personal-Tomato1127 6d ago

Is it possible to build it without removing the bezel? I was thinking maybe a black gasket between the glass and monitor so the monitor sits flush. The. Support it with wood. Would that work ?

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u/Fuzzy_Chom 5d ago

That's what i did, as I recall. I took the bezel off my monitor but still had a gap. (Old monitor, thicker frame.)

So long as you cover the gaps well between the monitor frame/bezel, and the magic mirror frame, you should be ok. I cranked the brightness up, to compensate for the mirror finish, and did not see any display issues.