Lilygo T5-4.7 E-paper display & ESPhome
A nerd friend bought me a LILYGO E-paper display1, in the exact hope that I’d end up going down the rabbit hole of Smart Things. I have gone down this bloody rabbit hole. I’ve always been a sucker for data, and I aspire to heating my home more efficiently by measuring temperatures round the house and seeing how they change as I change demand. This is not a place of honour. It’s a place of a lot of YAML and black magic. It’s pretty cool when it works though: The board is a micro with Wi-Fi and a big-enough E-Paper Display (EPD) I can reconfigure it via context-aware text editor in the browser Push updates (also from the browser) Do some reasonably complex data processing and image/text rastering on the micro itself Control it from either a self-hosted server on the micro or from Home Assistant ...