Magic Mirror
I will dedicate this page of the website on my journey of building a Magic Mirror and how i take full use if it. This page would be updated constantly as i would be regularly be improving the Magic Mirror
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Log Date: 15 May 2020
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I had to first place a mount on my wall fro the tv that i will be using as my magic mirror screen. This was my first step towards my magic mirror build.
Log Date: 17 May 2020
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After installing the TV to the wall, I had to start installing the software and other modules into Raspberry PI. I had chosed Raspberry PI as it small and ony needs 5 Volts of power, thus i was able to power it up with the Tv's USB port.
Log Date: 18 May 2020
I had to change all the stock modules to my personalized modules so that i could use the Magic Mirror Preferences. I had uploaded 7 modules in my Magic Mirror.
Bitcoin Api Module
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Due to the rise of popularity of Bitcoin and the value of it, I had setup my own Bitcoin wallet. I wanted to monitor it so I installed a Bitcoin value Api and had synced my Bitcoin wallet to the mentioned Api
Autostart Script Api
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Whenever i had turned on the TV, I was facing a tedious task of opening Magic Mirror application by cd directory and npm start. I had wanted to automate this, thus i had installed pm2 autostarted to make the process more efficient
Smaller Api Modules
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In this segment, I wll be uploading the smaller Api modules that do not explanations and reasining
Compliments Api
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I had changed the compliments to my own favour and what they show up on the screen
Weather Api
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I had added Singapore's weather so that i can refrer to them
Remote Control Api
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This Api allows me to control the magic mirror modules that is showing up on the Magic Mirror itself .
Calendar Api
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I had make a calendar Api so that I will be able to refer to the upcoming holidays
