Guy Sie
@guysie.nl
Digital marketer addicted to analog tech. Strategy nerd. Too many hobbies. Based in the Netherlands. Currently Marketing Lead at @openhomefoundation.org, working on @home-assistant.io
Oh I could imagine a TRMNL could work for that. But maybe the openepaperlink project could be a good fit: it’s open source firmware for the type of small eink price tags they use in supermarkets. Could be nice for a small door display. I’m a big fan of their project.
openepaperlink.de
openepaperlink.de
OpenEPaperLink - Open Source E-Paper Display Control
OpenEPaperLink is an alternative firmware and protocol for the ZBS243-based Electronic Shelf Labels - ESL price tags by Solum
openepaperlink.de
November 4, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Oh I could imagine a TRMNL could work for that. But maybe the openepaperlink project could be a good fit: it’s open source firmware for the type of small eink price tags they use in supermarkets. Could be nice for a small door display. I’m a big fan of their project.
openepaperlink.de
openepaperlink.de
If you have certain things you know you want to display, but don’t want to go through the trouble of running all that through HA or coding the screens, TRMNL gets you going much much faster. Like, a calendar and weather display is up and running in seconds. Harder to do in HA/ESPHome.
November 4, 2025 at 9:02 PM
If you have certain things you know you want to display, but don’t want to go through the trouble of running all that through HA or coding the screens, TRMNL gets you going much much faster. Like, a calendar and weather display is up and running in seconds. Harder to do in HA/ESPHome.
If you think you want to have HA as your single source of truth and anything you’d display would come from there, and you don’t mind custom coding (esphome) or puppeteering (image capturing HA dashboards) what to show, I’d go for an ESPHome based eink display. E.g. Seeed Xiao or reTerminal lines.
November 4, 2025 at 9:02 PM
If you think you want to have HA as your single source of truth and anything you’d display would come from there, and you don’t mind custom coding (esphome) or puppeteering (image capturing HA dashboards) what to show, I’d go for an ESPHome based eink display. E.g. Seeed Xiao or reTerminal lines.
Depends on what you want to do, the TRMNL and Home Assistant philosophies are kinda different. TRMNL is best for running on their cloud server stack, working with their stock plugins out of the box.
For HA, you get infinite local customizability.
For HA, you get infinite local customizability.
November 4, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Depends on what you want to do, the TRMNL and Home Assistant philosophies are kinda different. TRMNL is best for running on their cloud server stack, working with their stock plugins out of the box.
For HA, you get infinite local customizability.
For HA, you get infinite local customizability.
These 7” Spectra displays run a 800x480 resolution which isn’t high enough for photography in my opinion, but works quite nicely for illustrations.
Combined with the built-in battery and the deep sleep ability of ESPHome, this might be a really nice base for small e-ink art frames.
Combined with the built-in battery and the deep sleep ability of ESPHome, this might be a really nice base for small e-ink art frames.
October 22, 2025 at 10:19 PM
These 7” Spectra displays run a 800x480 resolution which isn’t high enough for photography in my opinion, but works quite nicely for illustrations.
Combined with the built-in battery and the deep sleep ability of ESPHome, this might be a really nice base for small e-ink art frames.
Combined with the built-in battery and the deep sleep ability of ESPHome, this might be a really nice base for small e-ink art frames.
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Just a reminder: "more personalized and more helpful" is often code for "WE WILL COLLECT ALL OF YOUR DATA."
October 21, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Just a reminder: "more personalized and more helpful" is often code for "WE WILL COLLECT ALL OF YOUR DATA."
We’re getting all the lame parts of a cyberpunk future without any of the cool stuff.
October 21, 2025 at 10:45 PM
We’re getting all the lame parts of a cyberpunk future without any of the cool stuff.
Should work with any other IR setup as well, of course, this just happens to be the one I already have integrated!
October 6, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Should work with any other IR setup as well, of course, this just happens to be the one I already have integrated!
An under-appreciated classic. Cabin In The Woods next?
October 5, 2025 at 6:38 AM
An under-appreciated classic. Cabin In The Woods next?
Oh yeah 2/TPS much better than 3. But at least 3 still tried, even though it couldnt match any of the Handsome Jack storyline. And now in 4… I honestly couldn’t tell you what the main plot is about and I was just playing the game 10 minutes ago.
October 4, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Oh yeah 2/TPS much better than 3. But at least 3 still tried, even though it couldnt match any of the Handsome Jack storyline. And now in 4… I honestly couldn’t tell you what the main plot is about and I was just playing the game 10 minutes ago.
It feels like they took everything that made Borderlands 2/3 era fun and special and threw that in the dumpster, but what remains still has enough dopamine loop that I’ll finish it against my will.
October 4, 2025 at 6:11 PM
It feels like they took everything that made Borderlands 2/3 era fun and special and threw that in the dumpster, but what remains still has enough dopamine loop that I’ll finish it against my will.