Home Assistant E-Ink Dashboard on the Inkplate 10
- Display Home Assistant dashboards on a beautiful e-ink display
- Display WiFi QR Codes for guests/friends to connect to home/guest wifi
- Can display messages directly from Home Assistant over MQTT
- Makes full use of the ESP32's cores with FreeRTOS
- Reports sensor data to Home Assistant over MQTT (Temperature, Battery, WiFi, etc..)
- Can change Activity displayed via MQTT Command (HASS dashboard, WiFi QR, Stats, text message, etc..)
- Syncs RTC over NTP
- Touch-pad buttons can start activities and wake from sleep
- 1 month+ battery life!
- Low battery warning displayed and sent over MQTT
- OTA updates over WiFi
- Partial screen updates in grayscale mode.
- Power saving sleep mode.
- Display any PNG image from MQTT Command
- Incorporate WiFi Manager for settings
See hardware.md
Create a Home Assistant Dashboard you want to display. I recommend using the kiosk-mode, card-mod and layout-card plugins to customize and tune the dashboard for your display.
Setup sibbl's hass-lovelace-kindle-screensaver or my fork hass-screenshot to regularly screenshot the desired dashboards for the HomePlate.
More information in hass.md and dashboard.md
Install PlatformIO. Then copy src/config_example.h to src/config.h and enter your settings.
Build & run with:
pio runThe first flash/installation needs to be done over USB. Future updates can be done over USB or WiFi with:
pio run -e otaTo monitor serial output without re-flashing:
pio device monitorgit pull
pio upgrade
pio pkg update
pio run --target cleanIf you get the following error while booting your inkplate, run the Inkplate_Wavefrom_EEPROM_Programming example to update your Inkplate's waveform.
Waveform load failed! Upload new waveform in EEPROM. Using default waveform.
Older Inkplates don't appear to ship with an updated waveform. I found waveform 3 looks the best for mine.