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Trmnl experiences? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by AA5B@lemmy.world to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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Did anyone here get one of those Trmnl dashboards? I’ve been wanting to build an e-ink dashboard for years but it keeps not happening, so I ordered a Trmnl X as soon as I read about it.

There’s a bit of a delay on shipping, and early adopters on Reddit were negative, but I’m excited!

— apparently one of the issues was magnets not sufficient to hold it to a fridge. THE CASE HAS MAGNETS! AND THEY'RE UPDATING THEM!

There is a big list of plugins, including apple calendar and HA dashboard, which I’m most interested in

Anyhow, if you got one, please share your experience

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[–] mbirth@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I’ve converted an old Kindle into a TRMNL and connected it to their Laravel server running in a Docker container.

It’s okay-ish, but the use is limited. Either it switches between different screens every few minutes and you never see the thing you’d like to see in the moment. Or, you can put 4 different things onto one screen but they’ll be tiny.

I seem to be more of a push-based kind of person who prefers information to come in the right moment via an alarm or notification.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I definitely like seeing the data as well.

But ….. I’ve got a bunch of Inovelli switches where the status led is controllable, and am hoping to turn that into an alerting system. It’s fairly low key but if every light switch is blinking yellow, for example, it should be quickly noticeable from everywhere. I have to get back to setting that up