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I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard

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Re: I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard

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Post by fanatic2pope »

Cool project.

I solved a problem (not really the same problem as this, mind you) for my family using a much older technology. I bought a big pane of glass from the hardware store, built a wooden frame for it with a shelf for an eraser and dry markers.

I hung it up in the kitchen and now when we need to leave "sticky" notes to each other we just write on it. We keep our shopping list on it, we write small poems and draw funny faces. It has become a fun ephemeral space for communicating.

Tons of fun and super cheap to build.

Re: I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard

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Post by AuthAuth »

j45 wrote: post #76
AuthAuth wrote: post #18

This is awesome but I still find it funny that he said he wants a healthy relationship with technology then goes and fits his entire house out with technology. It doesnt seem like any of this would really be useful as you'd have to enter all the useful data manually(calendar). For example the washing machine. You dont need real time information because you know how long it takes since you've done it 1000s of times an…

Technology working for you is different than you working for technology.

This guy spent months working on this. He was working for technology.

Re: I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard

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Post by greatgib »

When you think about it, it is crazy to think that the world is spending thousands of billions on AI stuffs, but still we haven't yet any affordable big size epaper display.

It could change a lot of things in the world, especially regarding the power consumption of most commonly used screens for a lot of signage everywhere. But not that much company looks like to be interested in developing the field.

I think that a few years a go, a lot of possible innovation were blocked by a few aggressive patents. I don't know if it is still the case.

Re: I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard

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Post by orsorna »

ekjhgkejhgk wrote: post #103
dddgghhbbfblk wrote: post #93

This is really cool. With a newborn in the home I've been really thinking about projects like this recently. When you have a newborn things are so busy and hectic that it's easy to get overloaded and for things to slip through the cracks so I've been really wishing I had a dashboard like this somewhere to remind me that we need to take the dogs out or show how long it's been since the baby last ate or whatnot.

You have a newborn, and you think spending time installing and maintaining something that displays the calendar around the house is a good use of time?

From what I can tell, the author (of the submission)* can afford being a multimillionaire buying thousand dollar displays and moving into extremely expensive detached housing, so his efforts don't apply to us breeder peon.

That being said, I see a lot of COTS products that fill this niche but all have privacy issues sadly.

Re: I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard

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Post by ryanckulp »

valiant55 wrote: post #101
phailhaus wrote: post #61

I love TRMNL for this exact type of usecase! Only ~$150, and you can self-host if you want.

I got the battery extension and it lasted more than 10 months (I have it on a 30 minute refresh). Highly recommend TRMNL if you want something to hack on without fussing with hardware.

glad to hear this. we made a couple more power savings improvements this week, publishing something on the blog about it ~tmrw.

Re: I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard

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Post by jeron »

greatgib wrote: post #123

When you think about it, it is crazy to think that the world is spending thousands of billions on AI stuffs, but still we haven't yet any affordable big size epaper display. It could change a lot of things in the world, especially regarding the power consumption of most commonly used screens for a lot of signage everywhere. But not that much company looks like to be interested in developing the field. I think that a…

>it is crazy to think that the world is spending thousands of billions on AI stuffs, but still we haven't yet any affordable big size epaper display.

why is that crazy? the demand for big epaper isn't really there, but demand for AI has been pretty clear

Re: I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard

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Post by fastball »

greatgib wrote: post #123

When you think about it, it is crazy to think that the world is spending thousands of billions on AI stuffs, but still we haven't yet any affordable big size epaper display. It could change a lot of things in the world, especially regarding the power consumption of most commonly used screens for a lot of signage everywhere. But not that much company looks like to be interested in developing the field. I think that a…

ePaper displays are niche, and worse for most personal and business use-cases compared to LCD et al.

AI is re-structuring entire industries.

Re: I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard

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Post by sublinear »

> There are still several data sources I fetch directly outside of Home Assistant. Once HA is the sole source of data, I’ll be able to have Timeframe be a Home Assistant App, making it significantly easier to distribute.

Yes, please distribute this as an HA app. I can't wait to see that.

Re: I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard

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Post by TurdF3rguson »

jeron wrote: post #127
greatgib wrote: post #123

When you think about it, it is crazy to think that the world is spending thousands of billions on AI stuffs, but still we haven't yet any affordable big size epaper display. It could change a lot of things in the world, especially regarding the power consumption of most commonly used screens for a lot of signage everywhere. But not that much company looks like to be interested in developing the field. I think that a…

>it is crazy to think that the world is spending thousands of billions on AI stuffs, but still we haven't yet any affordable big size epaper display. why is that crazy? the demand for big epaper isn't really there, but demand for AI has been pretty clear

Maybe once AI is doing everybody's jobs we'll all have free time for giant epaper dashboard nook projects.
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