SmartMirror

11 May 2015

This is the back-end for my smart mirror. It displays the current time, weather, and some news stories. It also has integration for gesture controls, so you can wave you hand near the mirror and have it do stuff.

You can read my blog posts about building the Smart Mirror here.

Web server

The web server runs on Node.js and uses some basic modules to serve static files, but will also allow for custom pages, API, etc. in the future.

Front end

The different pieces of the page refresh at different intervals. The weather is every few minutes, clock every second (it uses local time, not server time), and news every few minutes as well. It also has integration with gesture control, since the gestures will send keyboard inputs to the browser, the JavaScript will have to detect that.

Gesture Control

This is still a WIP, but it will use Python to capture input from the Hover device which is attached to the Raspberry Pi, and allow the user to interface with Chrome.