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This project creates a wall display using a Raspberry Pi equipped with a Pimoroni Inky Impression 4": https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/inky-impression-4

Disclaimer

Given that the e-ink display takes several seconds to update, this project will not be useful as the primary or sole interface for much. But as a secondary interface it's great to be able to reach up and hit a button on a picture frame and pause the music or toggle a wi-fi configuration setting, for example.

Features / Roadmap

It's not organized into a useful project yet. At present it has:

• Random image slideshow from a directory on the host, with scaling and color adaptive letterboxing
• Support for the four side buttons, with icon overlay
• An extensible, configurable state machine to support new types of display functions

Some things that are planned in the near future:

• Proper modularity -- this thing is a mess right now :)
• More built-in states and examples
  • Status graphs from Home Assistant or other sources
  • Mopidy or other media players
• Support for more different display types

Requirements

• Python 3 modules:

  • numpy
  • pillow
  • rpi.gpio
  • selenium
  • Inky: https://github.com/pimoroni/inky

• chromium-driver for selenium