Motion controlled SmartMirror showing time and temperature in background with the possibility of adding any widget to the menu.
The camera is behind the two-way mirror to get the best possible look. The screen and camera are managed by a raspberry pi.
The motion is managed by a server running in python with OpenCV, the server web is in NodeJS.
Preview
Showing the display of the main menu and a use case on the widget Cinema (movie times of my local theater)
**Capacities** - Recognition of gestures : palm, thumbs up/down, slide up/down/right/left - Time and outside temperature - Widgets : - Photo : take a photo and upload it to Dropbox - Map : display local Google Map - Cinema : movie time of local theater - DoodleJump : play the game (hard with the latency) - News : show international news
**Debugging**
The motion server can't recognize gestures on a new environment : lights, hand colors... affect the process, that's why by launching
the test.py file and tweak the HSV min/max values and others configs properly you can set it up for your home.
Show webm preview
**Dependencies** - Software : - OpenCV 2.x - Python 3.x - NodeJS - Hardware : - [Two Way Mirror](http://fr.aliexpress.com/item/300mm-x-300mm-x-3-0mm-Acrylic-PMMA-Plexiglass-Partial-Translucent-Mirrored-Sheets-for-Infinity-illusion/32398641282.html) - Raspberry pi - Camera (I'm using the NoIR but any camera should do) - LED Monitor (Preferably that cover the whole surface of your two way mirror)
**Building** - Web server : - `npm install` - `node server.js` - go to [http://localhost:3000](http://localhost:3000) - Motion server : - Install OpenCV 2.x and cv2 wrapper for python (should be in the opencv package) - `pip install numpy` - `pip install tornado` - `python test.py` for debug infos or `python main.py` for silent process
**Notes**
The motion server was made in python to learn the language, but it should have been made in C/C++ to gain execution speed and flowness in the gestures recognitions. Also, python environment kinda sucks at the moment, the difficulty to set it up for python3 + opencv2 + windows and then linux was exhausting, I don't recommend.