I built a touch-enabled ePaper Home Assistant dashboard, and it's better than any tablet
Adam Conway built a touch-enabled ePaper dashboard using Seeed Studio's reTerminal E1003 and integrated it with Home Assistant to control smart home devices. The 10.3-inch e-paper display consumes minimal power, works well in ambient light, and blends into home environments more naturally than tablets. Despite a slow refresh rate, it provides at-a-glance information and controls for lights, media, temperature, and a 3D printer.
- ▪Adam Conway used Seeed Studio's reTerminal E1003 to build a smart home dashboard integrated with Home Assistant.
- ▪The reTerminal E1003 features a 10.3-inch ePaper display with 16 levels of grayscale, an ESP32-S3 chip, and supports touch input.
- ▪The dashboard displays room temperatures, controls lights and media, monitors power usage, and includes a wake-on-LAN button for a PC.
- ▪The ePaper display consumes very little power and can last months on battery with infrequent updates.
- ▪Unlike glowing tablets, the ePaper screen resembles paper and is less visually disruptive in a home setting.
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