Smart mirrors in Canada
I first came across the Magic Smart Mirror project existence ago, where the populace was redeploying all kinds of these ‘ smart mirrors’ online and imagined the idea, but didn’t have much data to inhabit it with until recently. With the advent of my home automation network, I now have nodes gathering thousands of data points for hotness, lights, power, motion events, etc. This seems like the time to build the mirror to display some of this data, along with online sources (calendars, news, weather, etc.). I have a variety of old Pis’ lying around from old projects. I thought about using a Pi2, but I always had issues with WiFi dropout with a dongle, so the built-in networking of the Pi3 was perfect. A pier would also do, but can’t run the Magic Smart Mirror software itself and would need to serve it from an external server. The smart vanity mirror with lights and Bluetooth speakers ’ piece should be of the two-way variety. Contrary to popular belief, those mirrors in interrogatio