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The app has relatively many features, like: This is a simple app for displaying data on your Magic Mirror. You can ask the mirror for a joke, update the data displayed or even create your own commands (again, detailed instructions in the link).Ĭheck out Speculum Smart Mirror app here Smart Mirror The app also offers robust features such as voice commands. The setup screen looks very nice and the info is displayed in a very nice manner, with excellent typography and icons. The Speculum app offers a lot of customization, practically endless, since you have the source code. There are detailed instructions on the GitHub project site, and I think the extra leg work is definitely worth it. But there’s a catch, you can’t download an APK directly, so you’ll have to compile it using the Android SDK. It’s probably the best looking smart mirror app i’ve seen yet. It can also tell you if the weather is nice enough to bike to work, which is handy if you commute a lot on a bike.ĭownload HomeMirror here Speculum Smart Mirror

You can also display a XKCD comic, a news headline from BBC (no custom feed availability). Don’t know how well it works but it’s a cool feature. This app has a neat feature built in that attempts to read your mood by using facial recognition and the front facing camera on your android device. The app design is great, the setup screen looks nice and the app looks good on your wall, but again, you are quite constrained regarding the look and feel as well as what info to display. HomeMirror is a great looking app that is designed to display various information on your smart mirror. It does the job it’s designed to to quite well, but you don’t have as much freedom as you would have with a github repo or the like. The first app is called Wall Mirror, and is free.

You can even download a full screen browser from the Play Store to use the whole screen.Ĭheck out more info on the generator here: Magic Mirror Dashboard Generator Wall MirrorĪs of this writing, there are actually very few android app available to download directly from the Play Store, that are designed specifically to be used with smart mirrors. Simple create a dashboard, get your unique URL and put it into your Andoid device’s browser. The easiest way to turn an Android device into a smart mirror is using the Magic Mirror Dashboard Generator.