Searching “smart mirror” on the internet brings up countless DIY projects, tutorials and open source projects. I’ve been interested in building a smart mirror for some time know in order to ease the process of getting ready in the morning. Having a device which displays the weather, local train times I can plan out when to leave and ensure that I don’t forget my umbrella when it rains.
In order to make my product stand out from the rest, I’m adding a security element. By having a doorbell which activates a live stream, a user can use the mirror to view who is on the other side of their door.
Materials
Doorbell
The key component in this set up is the ESP32-CAM. It can store pictures using an sd card, create a video streaming web server and has face recognition and detection.
Process:
Press the doorbell (in this set up its the push button)
The piezo buzzer goes off and the LED lights up
The livestream is activated
2. Smart Mirror
Hardware: To build the smart mirror I used an acrylic two way mirror, shadow box, a touch screen display and black felt.
Software: RaspberryPi and MagicMirror
Demo
iPhone Demo
In addition to having the the love stream on the mirror, I integrated it with my phone. When someone presses the doorbell, a link to the livestream is sent to my phone and I can view who is on the other side of the door.
In order to make this possible, I used IFTTT, a web-based service that creates chains of simple conditional statements.