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I framed a cheap e-ink screen. My wife approves. (vlemmy.net)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/homeautomation

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Cheap e-ink screen from aliexpress, running esphome pulling data from home assistant every 30 seconds. It got time and date, temperatures, time untill the next buss leaves from the nearest bus stops, range on my car, power usage and price, and the three next items from me and my wifes shared google calendar. I got it framed professionally by a local framing workshop. They were a bit confused and hadn't done anything similar before, but they did a great job. My wife isn't always a big fan of my home automation adventures, but she loves this screen!

Edit: For some reason my picture didn't show up. Link here I think: https://vlemmy.net/pictrs/image/0f583c6d-f9b9-4d7a-91cf-6365b2d88d96.jpeg

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Awesome! From which service do you pull bus data?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thanks! The buss data is pulled using the entur integration which gives access to real time info about all public transport it norway. There might be similar services for other countries.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Excellent! I've been looking into using the Google Transit API for doing something like this. But using local services is an even better idea.

[–] Moskus 1 points 2 years ago

I'm guessing it's from EnTur, as it is in Norwegian.

[–] phx 4 points 2 years ago

I did something similar with a color screen+pi-pico for a rotating set of photos. It doesn't look great for everything though as the photos themselves need to play nicely with the 8-color palette of the service, and be reduced to a bitmap that can be read in.

Low-power consumption is cool though

[–] lycanrising 2 points 2 years ago

that’s awesome! more hobbies to distract from current hobbies 😄

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Looks cool!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

This looks cool, do you have a guide on how you built it?

[–] goodnessme 2 points 2 years ago

Very cool!

[–] CaldeiraG 1 points 2 years ago

Neat, can you share the source code for this?

[–] Moskus 1 points 2 years ago

Beautiful!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

This looks outstanding! Does it run on a battery? If so, what's the battery size and life like?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Nice! I'm considering doing something similar. Super neato!