Hacking Together an E-ink Dashboard
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Hacking Together an E-ink Dashboard
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Re: Hacking Together an E-ink Dashboard
#2That's cool! I built something similar for our boat with a black and white e-ink screen https://github.com/meri-imperiumi/dashboard
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#3> I realized I was asking Google Assistant the same questions over and over again. Like What’s the current weather? or What’s on my calendar for today? So I set out to build a small dashboard for my Raspberry Pi that I could check instead.
Why not use a widget on the home-screen of your phone?
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#4I almost bought this eink yesterday to test it out, but as I'm seeing here and I thought, it seems a bit small.
I am also considering getting a kindle and just putting a small html page on it so I don't have to get down to the pixel-level. I remember when I tried to use my now-defunct kindle that JS was giving some funny errors, probably should be treated as an old browser. Been holding out to see if a usb-c kindle comes up but people have been complaining for years now.
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#5> I realized I was asking Google Assistant the same questions over and over again. Like What’s the current weather? or What’s on my calendar for today? So I set out to build a small dashboard for my Raspberry Pi that I could check instead. Why not use a widget on the home-screen of your phone?
Not everyone's phone can do that :(
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#6I did something like this too. I definitely chose the wrong e-ink display, it was extremely awful to work with. https://github.com/dmd/wxpaper
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#7I did something like this too. I definitely chose the wrong e-ink display, it was extremely awful to work with. https://github.com/dmd/wxpaper
Could you expound on the issues you ran into?
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#8I almost bought this eink yesterday to test it out, but as I'm seeing here and I thought, it seems a bit small. I am also considering getting a kindle and just putting a small html page on it so I don't have to get down to the pixel-level. I remember when I tried to use my now-defunct kindle that JS was giving some funny errors, probably should be treated as an old browser. Been holding out to see if a usb-c kindle c…
I did something like this on an old rooted kindle paperwhite.
I wrote the script in bash, it uses a cross-compiled imagemagick to render an image, then pushes it to the screen using the 'eips' command.
I still use it every day, it's my only living room clock now.
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#9I almost bought this eink yesterday to test it out, but as I'm seeing here and I thought, it seems a bit small. I am also considering getting a kindle and just putting a small html page on it so I don't have to get down to the pixel-level. I remember when I tried to use my now-defunct kindle that JS was giving some funny errors, probably should be treated as an old browser. Been holding out to see if a usb-c kindle c…
The html browser on e-ink kindles is absurdly terrible (I think intentionally to discourage using the 'free' 3G for surfing). You may be able to get it to work, but godspeed. While not e-ink, I bought a handful of cheap used iPad-minis and mounted them on the wall. Serve them a little HTML UI from a raspberrypi in the closet. I tried a cheapo kindle fire, but it wasn't possible to get the browser to go "full-screen".
I get the appeal of e-ink for a dashboard, but having fast-refresh, color, fast touch-response, a modern browser, and other things make for a much more pleasant UX (at the expense of being bright and having to worry about powering the thing).
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#10I'm loving this group of E-Ink projects. First the newspaper, then the resources for buying the best screen, now this. Thanks for sharing. Especially around the Image API.
I think I'll have to take inspiration from (Copy!) parts of this project myself.