The things About Smart Mirror

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What makes a Smart Mirror is the ability to display any information you want on it. A smart mirror can be customized to display local weather forecasts, news bulletins, your upcoming calendar schedule, social media feeds.

It’s possible even to add voice commands using Amazon’s Alexa or Google’s Home Assistant. With voice commands, you can ask your mirror questions, set reminders, or control other smart devices in your home.

A smart mirror can easily be customized to include whatever information you want. There are many people online building custom modules and code to get smart mirrors to do different things.

There are three components of a smart mirror: a two-way mirror, a display, and a computer device. Let’s look at each part and how they run the smart mirror.

Two-Way Mirror: A normal mirror has a film behind the glass that reflects 100% of incoming light. That means when you look at a mirror, you see your reflection. A two-way mirror reflects light from one direction but allows light to pass through from the other direction.

You have probably seen two-way mirrors in the movies in police interrogation rooms. Smart mirrors use two-way mirrors to allow the light from the display to pass through the mirror.

Display: behind the two-way mirror sits a monitor screen/TV/tablet. That is used to display any information or modules for your smart mirror. The display can be the same size as the mirror or smaller than the mirror.

Throughout this site, you will see different-sized displays used in smart mirrors.

Computer: something has to run the content you see on your smart mirror. A small computer device such as a Raspberry Pi is more than enough to power a smart mirror.

The type of computer device you need depends on what you want your smart mirror to do.

Like many smart devices, it’s hard to imagine how useful they can be until you use one. The big advantage of a smart mirror is the ability to display useful information without needing to open apps or do anything.

You look at your smart mirror, and the information is there.

A great advantage of building your smart mirror is the modules and software others have already created. There are hundreds of different modules other people have made you can use for your smart mirror.

You can fully customize your smart mirror by picking and choosing the modules you want to include.

The great thing about building your smart mirror is you can customize it to your own needs.

Here are some ideas of different features you could include in your smart mirror:

– Touch screen: adding touch to your smart mirror lets you interact with it

– LED lighting: a simple LED strip around your smart mirror can add some nice feature lighting to your room

– Motion sensor: turn your smart mirror on automatically when you enter your room

– Voice control: ask your mirror questions or give it commands

– Facial recognition: your mirror can detect who is in the room and customize the content to match each person

As you can see, you have a lot of flexibility over your smart mirror. You’ll find articles and information across this website on different ways to set up your smart mirror and customize it to your needs.


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