I’ve been musing about making a Pi powered magic mirror for a while. The problem is that the typical software is nasty js/python/php stuff and I really don’t want that. Anyone interested in collaborating on a better way? 

See http://michaelteeuw.nl/tagged/magicmirror for a bunch of posts about an early and nicely done exemplar, maybe https://magicmirror.builders and generally google for ‘raspberry pi magic mirror’.

We have JSON reading, MQTT handling, web fetching, morph animating, decent fonts (via Pango & the UnicodePlugin) and even some neat sound abilities. We could very reasonably run on a Pi Zero W, which is actually something that most web browser based code can’t do well. With a usb microphone we might even do Siri/Alexa integration?

tim
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