Home Automation dashboard INSIDE your Magic Mirror with Grafana and Home Assistant!

This tutorial will show you how to take your existing Grafana dashboards, place them into a rotating playlist, and then get that playlist to show up on your magic mirror. I'll describe how to install the MMM-IFrame module, how to configure it, and how to setup magic mirror to launch Chrome to allow you to keep your authentication so that your home automation data stays secure.

Note: This tutorial builds upon the following tutorials:

Setting up Influx DB and Grafana with Home Assistant:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKIHoqxxMek

Home automation System Monitor and Speedtest Dashboard Tutorial using Home Assistant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBBCzKZIehw

One of the challenges for this is figuring out how to have the mirror, which doesn't usually have any credentials, access the data from Grafana/Home Assistant. The techniques I found online included setting up a reverse proxy or turning off auth. When talking about personal information or a system that controls my house and has access to my daughters infant camera...I'm not ok with turning off authentication. So I spent some time to figure out a way to keep things secure, but still give a my viewers the 'glance and go' convenience of a magic mirror.

I've noticed a trend while making this video...I have a number of technical 'smart' things I've built that are discreet and yet technical or smart. For instance the dynaframes are designed to look like 'just frames' and yet they're so much more. The Voronoi Lamp is another one. Magic Mirrors are by design a subtle accent that hides tech well. I recently purchased a Samsung "The Frame" TV which has a mode to disguise it as a painting. I'll talk about that in an upcoming video to keep this trend going, so please subscribe if you'd like to see more on that, and this 'subtle tech' trend in general.

Thanks for watching!
- Joe

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