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Re: Busy Status Bar

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Post by m4r71n »

blutack wrote: post #91

If you're looking for something with an addressable LED matrix in a clock style form factor, the Ulanzi TC001 [0] for ~$50 is worth having a look at. Doesn't quite have the same aesthetic but inside it's just an ESP32 (flashed via the USB-C port) and there's various mature open source firmware replacements. I use awtrix[1] on mine and it's very easy to tie in HomeAssistant for doorbell notifications and that sort of…

This looks great! I've considered building a simple device with an LED matrix that looks similar to this, but could never figure out what gives the LEDs the muted look. All of the devices mentioned here (Tidbyt Gen2, Lamarca, Ulanzi, even the busy.bar) have it. Is the back-pannel just an LED matrix with a custom acrylic in front of it? How do they ensure the light from individual LEDs doesn't bleed into its neighbor?

Re: Busy Status Bar

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Post by jdoss »

blutack wrote: post #91

If you're looking for something with an addressable LED matrix in a clock style form factor, the Ulanzi TC001 [0] for ~$50 is worth having a look at. Doesn't quite have the same aesthetic but inside it's just an ESP32 (flashed via the USB-C port) and there's various mature open source firmware replacements. I use awtrix[1] on mine and it's very easy to tie in HomeAssistant for doorbell notifications and that sort of…

This looks exactly what I have been looking for to put outside of my home office to keep my family from interrupting me during work meetings. Thanks for sharing it!

Re: Busy Status Bar

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Post by echoangle »

shadowpho wrote: post #172
echoangle wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can confirm, here’s a small BOM: 8x 8x8 WS2812 Matrix $2 each = $16 ESP32 $3 1x some acrylic to laser-cut a case in a makerspace $5 So $24 total. The screen would be much larger than the Busy Bar version, which could be a pro or a con, depending on what you want. If you need the smaller back screen (I don’t see the use because I would control it from a computer anyways), that would add another $3 or so. The buttons a…

no, that's not how much that costs at all lol

Ever been on Aliexpress? I was roughly converting prices from € to $ and adding some spare for tolerance, here’s what I actually paid:

LED Matrix: 5 for 6,33€ (that is 1,27€ each)

ESP32 C3 Supermini: 3 for 3,56€ (1,19€ each)

There’s scrap acrylic at my makerspace so I was guessing, make it 10€ and I’m at 23€ or so.

What numbers do you not believe?

Re: Busy Status Bar

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Post by dullcrisp »

emilkaiumov wrote: post #101
VoxPelli wrote: post #93

Is there any message from the Flipper Zero people that this is actually their device? It’s not mentioned on https://www.flipperdevices.com/ , neither on https://flipperzero.one/ or their Instagram? They have been plagued with peopling scamming people in their name before

It is (but in russian) Pavel Zhovner (a lead of flipper devices) wrote about Busy status bar 3 months ago in his Telegram channel ( https://t.me/zhovner_hub/2073 ). At https://flipperzero.one/ you can find habr.com blog link. The first post in Flipper blog was made by Zhovner https://habr.com/ru/users/zhovner/ (who has a link to telegram channel zhovner_hub).

> Главная идея в том, чтобы сказать людям “отъебитесь на 15 минут” еще до того как вас отвлекли.

This explanation is much more forthright.

Re: Busy Status Bar

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Post by ndndjdjdn »

refulgentis wrote: post #151
tamimio wrote: post #149

A bit dystopian turning people into a taxi-like system where you need an indicator to tell if they are vacant or not. Regardless, I'm struggling to know the audience here. Is it an employee in the office? If that’s the case, it won’t solve any problem because most of the disturbances happen from your boss either calling about something or asking you to join another useless meeting. Your boss won’t care about your sta…

After reading the page, it seems clear it is akin to a recording studio busy signal, well-trodden territory predating computers, and marketed for video conferencing. Neither without target audience, nor a sigil of the fall of interhuman cooperation and communication :)

You have not said what the market is. Recording studios have a solution. And probably don't use pomedero. And the reason for the indicator I assume is to stop people barging in and stop people saying silly stuff thinking their off air so it needs to be inside and outside the room.

So who is this device for again?

Re: Busy Status Bar

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Post by diggan »

adtac wrote: post #187
zhovner wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi, Pavel Zhovner here, Flipper Devices CEO. Yes it's our product, but it's not ready for announcement yet, so we keep it secret. Right now, we are working on implementing Matter smart home protocol and will slightly change the product concept.

Is there any message from the Flipper Zero people that this is actually their CEO? :)

No need, the user profile (cryptographically) links to their keybase profiles which corroborates the identity. The future is here! :)

Re: Busy Status Bar

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Post by dr_kiszonka »

dr_kiszonka wrote: post #125
zhovner wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi, Pavel Zhovner here, Flipper Devices CEO. Yes it's our product, but it's not ready for announcement yet, so we keep it secret. Right now, we are working on implementing Matter smart home protocol and will slightly change the product concept.

It looks gorgeous, especially the hardware. I think the typeface on the hardware and the retro busy text could be further refined, but it is very very cool overall.

(Looking at the renders, there are at least four different fonts on the device. It would probably look better if you used fewer.)

Re: Busy Status Bar

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Post by refulgentis »

ndndjdjdn wrote: post #196
refulgentis wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

After reading the page, it seems clear it is akin to a recording studio busy signal, well-trodden territory predating computers, and marketed for video conferencing. Neither without target audience, nor a sigil of the fall of interhuman cooperation and communication :)

You have not said what the market is. Recording studios have a solution. And probably don't use pomedero. And the reason for the indicator I assume is to stop people barging in and stop people saying silly stuff thinking their off air so it needs to be inside and outside the room. So who is this device for again?

> You have not said what the market is.

Hmm, you sure? I checked OP, it says "marketed for video conferencing"

> Recording studios have a solution.

Okay.

> And probably don't use pomedero.

*pomodoro

> And the reason for the indicator I assume is to stop people barging in and stop people saying silly stuff thinking their off air so it needs to be inside and outside the room.

Okay.

> So who is this device for again?

Video conferencing, ex. the above scenario you laid out

> I'm curious, I'm not just rushing through an attempt to correct something that doesn't need correction. How do they envision it in use?

Here's a link to the site, it has marketing material re: this. https://busy.bar/

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