Was it over-kill? Absolutely, but I had a great time building it. The home automation stuff was something I'd wanted to do in the house but unfortunately the wife had different ideas so this was my home automation fix if you will.

Is it really for me as opposed to my daughters? My wife has her opinion on this :-)

The mirror has three modes: princess, halloween, and pirate. Yes the halloween mode is scary which is the mode I put on the video as I entered this in the Maker Halloween DIY contest. The idea is the princess mode is for little girls, Halloween is for the adults, and Pirate is for little boys. When I get a chance, I'll post the princess and pirate modes also.

If anyone of you have a 4 year old daughter, you know how hard it is to keep their attention. I had to re-shoot a few times so she was getting a bit impatient. But I can tell you she loves the princess mode and frequently shows off to her friends.

On the Stock and Weather, there are three potential videos that can play for each. If your stocks (which you load via a config file) are down, it will play a video speaking to the down stocks and another if your stocks are up. Same routine for the weather.

Yes there is one clip with a voice over from Vincent Price, was great for Halloween.

Thanks again for the feedback. If I ever get around to version 2.0, I'll be sure and post that

Al
alinke@yahoo.com

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