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I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard

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Post by tecoholic »

samspot wrote: post #344
tecoholic wrote: post #225

Really happy to see e-paper home dashboards as a thing. Last month or so I saw a Melbourne public transport one, which showed times of the next tram/bus. We tried something like this using the iPad when we moved to a new country with one year old, because there was so much to figure out and track, it felt impossible. Now after a year, it’s gone and things are more internalised. That’s my main concern with spending ti…

I envy your life of peaceful routine. For me every evening is a trip into the unknown. Sure some things repeat on the same days. But there is always something new. This week the one I'm aware of is daily Soccer tryouts. I have to check my spouse's paper calendar every day to keep up.

I wouldn't call my life "peaceful routine" :D But the moving parts are limited for sure. I don't have multiple kids whose routines need to be synced with mine. Maybe that's the point I would have this mounted on a wall.

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Post by calrain »

I'm interested in this as a way to manage a calendar for my mother that is showing early signs of Dementia.

If we can centrally manage her bookings and all she has to do is look at the calendar and clearly see what is happening today, and in the near future, there is a real use-case for that.

Especially as I don't live near her, and remotely managing a calendar in her house would be amazingly useful.

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Post by embedding-shape »

firesteelrain wrote: post #370
embedding-shape wrote: post #353

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I incorporated OpenMeteo into a project recently and got frustrated with their aggressive rate limiting Which one? They seem to do 600 calls / min, 5.000 calls / hour, 10.000 calls / day, 300.000 calls / month, how many times do you need to look up the weather for personal use? Fine, maybe you want 3 different locations, you can still call each of those sufficiently with those rate limits, no?

I have to sample multiple lat/lon across the world all at once

For what purpose? And multiple times per hour for each of those? Sounds like not a personal project already.

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Post by Sander_Marechal »

silversmith wrote: post #254
NikxDa wrote: post #2

This is super cool, and I wish something like this existed at my place, as it enables information sharing without the need for phones/actual screens that shine in your face when the lights are low or tempt you to doomscroll. That said, the large primary display this uses is $2000. That's very hard to justify for any "normal" household, and that's without any mounts, backend, services etc.

My solution was to buy a used Samsung tablet with OLED screen, and control the display on with motion sensors. It sits in the hallway, above the keys drawer. The screen is on only when someone's walking nearby, and around eye level when you go pick up the keys. Designed the dashboard based around muted colours on black background, with brights reserved for "hey pay attention to this" data. And most importantly, the s…

What's the software stack? Did you write an app for it? Jailbreak it?

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Post by PapstJL4U »

sschueller wrote: post #234
ojagodzinski wrote: post #15

~3000€ to show information in some random places in the house even though the household members have a device with a screen called a smartphone next to them 24/7 ? Well, it's cool, but the usability of it all is below average. Declutter your life and don't install any more screens in your home ;)

I assume you do not own a wall clock? I make these https://www.stationdisplay.com/ . They are also just as "useless" as a wall clock yet people find it a lot more pleasing to take a glance at something to give the information instantly, than having to make multiple decisions in order to take their phone out, open the app and find the place with the information they need.

Yeah, I doing something like this for me. An ePaper display to show local departures of public transport and QR code for my local network.

Having the departure times of my local tram right next to my door helps to not miss it by half a minute. =)

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Post by firesteelrain »

embedding-shape wrote: post #373
firesteelrain wrote: post #370

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have to sample multiple lat/lon across the world all at once

For what purpose? And multiple times per hour for each of those? Sounds like not a personal project already.

It’s for a hobbyist project and non commercial use.

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

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Post by embedding-shape »

firesteelrain wrote: post #376
embedding-shape wrote: post #373

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For what purpose? And multiple times per hour for each of those? Sounds like not a personal project already.

It’s for a hobbyist project and non commercial use.

Right, but less "I want to know what the weather is locally and maybe in my summer house" and more "I'm curious about sampling global weather/temperatures", right? I don't think the intention of the API is for the latter, but more for the former.

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Post by fragmede »

NikxDa wrote: post #2

This is super cool, and I wish something like this existed at my place, as it enables information sharing without the need for phones/actual screens that shine in your face when the lights are low or tempt you to doomscroll. That said, the large primary display this uses is $2000. That's very hard to justify for any "normal" household, and that's without any mounts, backend, services etc.

Approach the expense like a business. Save up for expense, but more than that, look at lost revenue due to time lost to doom scrolling. If you're able to be more productive or having it results in more productivity, can you said to not get it?

That said, $2,000 is for one at that size. You could get a e-reader and root it for way less. It would be smaller but would be correspondingly cheaper.

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Post by david422 »

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…

> 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 and it beeps. All these things are just managed in our heads subconsciously.

Actually, this is one example of home automation that works very well. My washer will remind me that wash is ready to move to the dryer, and stops reminding me once the washer door opens.

It means that a) I don't have to put it on my mental reminders, b) it works very well with anybody else in the family that does a wash and _they_ forget to move it to the dryer.

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