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

    • @[email protected]OP
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      42 years ago

      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]
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        22 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.

    • @MoskusM
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      12 years ago

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

  • @phx
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    42 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
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    22 years ago

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

  • @MoskusM
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    12 years ago

    Beautiful!

  • @CaldeiraG
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    12 years ago

    Neat, can you share the source code for this?

  • Highsight
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    12 years ago

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