Building an e-ink weather display for our home

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Post by jorde » Sun, Nov 13, 2022, 2:22 PM UTC

Building an e-ink weather display for our home
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Re: Building an e-ink weather display for our home

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Post by 1MachineElf » Sun, Nov 13, 2022, 6:39 PM UTC

Well done!

I wish something hackable like this was commercially available (without surveillance/data harvesting.)

Re: Building an e-ink weather display for our home

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Post by AnonGooseTown » Sun, Nov 13, 2022, 7:30 PM UTC

Looks great! You inspired me to want to do something similar, perhaps in a photo frame on my desk with a to-do list.

I was shocked at the price of the e-ink display though. $200?! I could buy a whole Kindle for that price.

Re: Building an e-ink weather display for our home

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Post by julianlam » Sun, Nov 13, 2022, 7:37 PM UTC

AnonGooseTown wrote: post #3

Looks great! You inspired me to want to do something similar, perhaps in a photo frame on my desk with a to-do list. I was shocked at the price of the e-ink display though. $200?! I could buy a whole Kindle for that price.

Indeed! And with the help of PascalW's kindle-dash, I did just that with a leftover Kindle.

https://github.com/pascalw/kindle-dash

Re: Building an e-ink weather display for our home

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Post by possiblydrunk » Sun, Nov 13, 2022, 9:13 PM UTC

>The picture is from the library's electronics room which has cool gear such as laser cutter, 3D printer, and much more.

Amazing! I've never seen anything comparable in a U.S. library. What a wonderful resource. How do they maintain it?

Re: Building an e-ink weather display for our home

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Post by mdmglr » Sun, Nov 13, 2022, 9:48 PM UTC

1MachineElf wrote: post #2

Well done! I wish something hackable like this was commercially available (without surveillance/data harvesting.)

Jailbroken (and maybe used) older generation eInk kindle?

Re: Building an e-ink weather display for our home

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Post by KMnO4 » Sun, Nov 13, 2022, 11:22 PM UTC

mdmglr wrote: post #6

1MachineElf wrote: post #2

Well done! I wish something hackable like this was commercially available (without surveillance/data harvesting.)

Jailbroken (and maybe used) older generation eInk kindle?

Better yet, pick up a Kobo. You drop a zip file on the SD card and get a full Linux environment.

I picked up a few of them for $10 each (used)

Re: Building an e-ink weather display for our home

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Post by schwartzworld » Sun, Nov 13, 2022, 11:38 PM UTC

possiblydrunk wrote: post #5

>The picture is from the library's electronics room which has cool gear such as laser cutter, 3D printer, and much more. Amazing! I've never seen anything comparable in a U.S. library. What a wonderful resource. How do they maintain it?

I live in MA and we have this. Our library has a whole maker space including a 3d printer where you just pay for the filament

Re: Building an e-ink weather display for our home

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Post by acidburnNSA » Sun, Nov 13, 2022, 11:41 PM UTC

Sweet, very nice.

I made a 'skyfield' widget for home assistant that shows the current position of the sun, moon and some planets as well as the summer and winter solstice paths. I really think it would be awesome for an e-ink display in the home. I've been planning to kick off that project at some point. This is inspiring.

https://github.com/partofthething/ha_skyfield

Re: Building an e-ink weather display for our home

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Post by xnx » Sun, Nov 13, 2022, 11:42 PM UTC

I found this guide to converting an old Kindle 4 to display anything from the web super useful. https://matthealy.com/kindle I bought another 3 used kindles for $20 each after getting it to work.