# MicrosoftEdge/magic-mirror-demo

A :zap:Magic Mirror:zap: powered by a UWP Hosted Web App :rocket:

Repository: https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/magic-mirror-demo
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/magic-mirror-demo
Language: JavaScript
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Archived: true
Last push: 2021-03-10T18:49:54+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3850, "days_push": 2002, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1225, forks 209 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:02.959314+00:00)

## What it is
A smart mirror IoT demo project by Microsoft Edge that displays information on a two-way mirror and recognizes registered users via facial recognition to personalize the experience. It is built as a UWP Hosted Web App running on a Raspberry Pi, using web technologies on the client and Node.js/Mongo on Azure for the backend.

## Use cases
- build a smart mirror that recognizes users and personalizes the display
- learn how to build UWP hosted web apps for Windows 10 and Raspberry Pi
- detect faces from a camera and match them to user profiles with Cognitive Services Face API
- weekend IoT project combining a two-way mirror with a Raspberry Pi
- create user profiles on a desktop app that a mirror device can recognize

## When to choose
- you want a hands-on IoT weekend project building a face-recognizing smart mirror
- you want a reference example of UWP hosted web apps accessing native device APIs like the webcam
- you are targeting Windows 10 IoT on a Raspberry Pi 2/3 with web technologies

## When to avoid
- you need a maintained or supported project - the repository is unmaintained and its backing Azure services have been shut off
- you want a production-ready smart mirror solution rather than a demo
- you cannot use Windows 10 UWP tooling or Microsoft Cognitive Services

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: abandoned
- function: computer-vision, speech-recognition
- domain: iot, artificial-intelligence, hardware
- platform: windows, iot, cross-platform
- tags: magic-mirror, uwp, hosted-web-app, raspberry-pi, face-recognition, smart-mirror, cognitive-services

## Member repositories
- MicrosoftEdge/magic-mirror-demo (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:02.959314+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:15:22.584402+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/magic-mirror-demo (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:02.959314+00:00, sha 9e755f7d38ae)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.