inspired by magicmirror

I’ve been really inspired by the MagicMirror project. The basic idea is getting a piece of mirror glass and putting a monitor and computer behind it, then having a status page show some pertinent information about the day (like weather, calendar, news, etc). So it looks like a regular mirror, but when you look closely, it shows the extra information.

I’d like to put one in the bedroom to replace our tall mirror. That’ll be pretty cool, but it requires a bit of extra thought because our magicmirror setup would replace a tall and skinny mirror, so we’ll probably just want a monitor behind the top part of the mirror. That will require some extra bracing to hold the monitor up in the frame. I’ll need to think about that a while.

To hold me over in the mean time, and get a platform to play with the software, I ordered a Raspberry Pi 2 and small screen. With that, I’ll be able to play with it on a small scale first. I was thinking about mounting it inbetween two cabinets in the bathroom, but just realized that might not work well with the steam from showers and soforth.

One thing I’d really like to see out of it would be bank & card balances. I guess I’m a little obsessive about that stuff, but it really would be nice to have it. This desire sent me down a big rabbit hole of trying to get OFX transactions downloaded. Of course, it seems nearly impossible. I was about to give up, but then stumbled across the fantastic mintapi python package.