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Building an e-ink weather display for our home
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Re: Building an e-ink weather display for our home
#102cool, but these : https://www.homedepot.com/pep/La-Crosse-Technology-Atomic-Di... are super cheap, last forever and don't require an internet connection. Sure you don't get multi day weather but that's what the weather widget on my phohne is for.
I’m not sure how useful that is honestly. I have a temperature reading on my HVAC thermostat. And without looking I pretty much always know what it’s set to. It tells me nothing about what to expect for the day out of the home. Temperature != Weather
the lacrosse ones have an outdoor pressure sensor which it uses to predict the weather, works pretty well for me.
Re: Building an e-ink weather display for our home
#103As much as I like e-ink and DIY projects, those "weather displays" or "smart mirrors" always feel like a wasteful solution to a non-problem.
Fun hacks in 2022 should be bottom drawer first? Sustainably powered?
It could just be my brain compensating for my own e-waste guilt.
Re: Building an e-ink weather display for our home
#104Awesome! I love to reading about this projects. I built my own a while back and every post somehow explores the design space slightly different.
My version[0] uses the 7.5 b/w ePaper that the author replaced, renders using LaTeX and addresses the bw font uglyness by rendering without anti aliasing in an okayish looking font. Looks good to me from a couple of meters away.
[0] https://irq0.org/hacks/epaper-calendar.html https://github.com/irq0/comporellon
Re: Building an e-ink weather display for our home
#105I 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.
I followed this guide mostly on my PW4 and found the instructions to be a bit lacking / out-of-date.
Dropping this as a warning for people trying this out - your Kindle firmware should be After you do, I'd recommend you then install KUAL and then MobileRead Package Installer so that you can install the mod that prevents auto-updates and then you can install and control USBNetwork in a more user-friendly way.
Re: Building an e-ink weather display for our home
#106That's badass. I hope there's a larger push for e ink display.
Re: Building an e-ink weather display for our home
#107Is it possible right now to program a bare e-ink screen for an application with lots of text and scrolling? I see plenty of e-readers out there that appear to have good refresh rate, but I always wonder if they are using special drivers to achieve this or if it's as simple as using an off-the-shelf screen with included driver that has a `scroll_down()` function.
Re: Building an e-ink weather display for our home
#108Well done! I wish something hackable like this was commercially available (without surveillance/data harvesting.)
Check out LILYGO T5 4.7 Inch E-paper based on ESP32 for $33: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005002006058892.html
Or you can repurpose an old Kindle: https://github.com/matopeto/kindle-weather-dashboard
Re: Building an e-ink weather display for our home
#109I 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.
You can also use the built-in web browser without jailbreaking Kindle: https://github.com/matopeto/kindle-weather-dashboard or my https://github.com/niutech/kindle-dashboard
Re: Building an e-ink weather display for our home
#110I 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.
You can also use the built-in web browser without jailbreaking Kindle: https://github.com/matopeto/kindle-weather-dashboard or my https://github.com/niutech/kindle-dashboard
That's a good option, but it does leave the browser UI on the screen.