Configuration
This section will give more information on how to configure your Senses - Smart Mirror.
We assume that you have correctly installed Senses and started the software.
From a fresh installation you will only see the default profile with the default configuration. The default configuration will show the Clock and the QR widget. If you scan the QR widget the Senses - Smart Mirror app will open on your Phone! From now on you will use this webapp to configure your Smart Mirror.
Profile
As you noticed you are not able to change to change widgets on the default profile. Go ahead to the Profile Screen (in the Senses - Smart Mirror App) and create your first profile.
- Specify the name of your profile
- Click Save
- Switch to your new profile
Your new profile is now active and ready to use!
More information about profiles.
General Settings
To configure your Smart Mirror even more you can change some general (global) settings. For example, change the color scheme (theme), change the font or enable animation for the widgets in the bottom sections.
More explanation on the individual settings can be found here.
Wallpaper
Please note
In order to use the Wallpaper module you will need to get an Api key (called Access Key) from Unsplashopen in new window. Follow the API Use and Guidelines and create an Application, once you have created an application you can use the "Access Key" as the Api Key.
The Wallpaper module can be used to set a background image to your Smart Mirror or add a background filter. This module uses Unsplashopen in new window to get the images. Other features you can use:
- Background Filter
- Background Blur
- Background images through a specific collection from Unsplash
- Background Border Radius
- Interval to specify the time between cycling the images
Grid and Design mode
The Smart Mirror uses a grid where you can place widgets. The grid is divided in a left column, right column and a center column. When you open the Senses - Smart Mirror app you will directly see the left and right column. The center column can be opened from the navigation in the bottom.
From navigation -> settings -> design you can open the design mode. In the design mode you can drag the grid system up and down in order to view all widgets or add more widgets.
Widgets
After you are done with the general configuration you are ready to place widgets on your Smart Mirror. All widgets are configurable through there own settings. After adding a widget to the grid the widget settings screen will be displayed.
For a full list of all the widgets see here.
Configure your Raspberry PI
Senses - Smart Mirror software will run on your Raspberry PI out of the box but you might want to configure other Raspberry PI related options. Think about a splash screen or rotate the display to properly show the software on your monitor.
We decided to not give any instructions in this documentation, there are already a lot of tutorials / guides / video's out there that provide a lot of good help already. We might add a link to those sites in the documentation at a later stage.