It is one of the rare projects that my wife actually approved (i.e. wanted for herself). I didn't use a mirror just a 24" monitor. I've got maybe $180 in it ($110 monitor, $50 RaspberryPi / SD card, and $15 mounting bracket). The only modules I am running are Weather Forecast, Date/Time, Current Weather, Google PIctures and Google Calendar. The pictures are set up to rotate in random order every 10 seconds. The calendar is set up to show the current week and the next 5 weeks after that. Once the week ends the calendar scrolls up so the current week is always on top. My work schedule (blue for nightshift, yellow for dayshift, green for vacation), white vacations and red birthday/anniversary/etc make up the events. So much nicer than our Dollar Tree calendar we usually have on the wall. I have a motion sensor ordered so I can get the display to shut off when we are asleep or not home.

 

That's really well done. I've been trying to convince myself to build a digital calendar for a while. I even have a pi3 sitting around doing nothing.

Did you do the program yourself or follow a guide for that?

 

I thought I would just be following a guide but I have yet to find one that works. There are several out there but the software has changed so much lately that they are all outdated. I found a video, in French, that kind of shows the setup of the calendar and there is a six part series on youtube with an Asian girl that gets you 90% of the way through the Google Photos setup (kind of). My goal was to post a step by step guide on what I did but that has been harder than building the mirror. You can find some of my config files here:
http://170.52.136.93/projects/mirror/

 

Yeah, my hold up has been the lack of a plug and play setup. My skill with programming involves a lot of copy paste and Google searches.

It's essentially just a locally hosted web page, right? Or am I way off base?

 

If I can do it then you can do it. It wasn't that bad. I'm working on a set of instructions on how to do it that will make it easier than what you can currently find online.