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Smart Mirror
My mirror is smarter than yours :P
About
The Mirror to get you ready for the day.
Offers features like showing date, time, weather, schedule and notifications custom-tailored to the person standing in the front of the mirror.
Summer Project under Programming Club IIT Kanpur. Team Members:
- Abhinav Kumar Sharma (@jmoriarty221B)
- Shubham Jain (@shubjn)
- Subhdeep Saha (@subhdeep)
- Yash Srivastav (@yashsriv)
Features
Weather
Displays weather according to location
Notifications
Displays phone notifications using Pushbullet
Face Detection
Uses Microsoft's Project Oxford
Project Description
Date & Time
Fetches current date and time using javascript from the system date and time
Weather
Uses HTML5 Geolocation features to obtain location, i.e., latitude and longitude.
Uses the latitude and longitude to obtain weather data using Forecast.io API
Schedule
Fetches the user's schedule using Google's Calendar API
Notifications
Uses Pushbullet's API to mirror notifications on the mirror.
The user needs to have the pushbullet app installed and mirror notifications set to on.
Face Detection
Uses a javascript library - js-object-detect to check if a person is standing in front of the mirror
If yes, then we proceed to face identification which requires Internet Access
Face Identification
Uses Microsoft's Project Oxford Face API for face identification.
For more details on how to use it, refer to our project's wiki page - https://github.com/11000011/Smart-Mirror/wiki
The User Model
The User Model
The user model looks like this:
{
name: "foo bar",
userId: "microsoft user id",
pushKey: "pushbullet api key",
refreshKey: "google authentication key"
}
We will have a registration page where the user can enter all this data and it will be saved in a file called users.json
Users contains an array of objects looking like the above. All our API keys are also stored in a different json file called keys.json