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Old 03-09-2025, 01:49 PM   #51
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Originally Posted by Renate View Post
Wow, this saga is sure dragging on.

For software you could use Gimp or Photoshop or whatever.

I like to use something a bit lower tech for simple graphic stuff. I just write SVG by hand and view it in a browser or wherever. You can use InkScape in command line to turn it into a PNG graphic, which I presume that this thing can display. The advantage of this approach is that you can easily change text content without mousing around and possibly moving something.
Yes to all of that. For graphics fiddling I use Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer. I'm more curious about what sort of features its phone app has. Maybe can I use it as a picture frame and update its picture every N minutes. Or maybe send it the weather. I'm currently working on writing a web app that displays the temperature from zigbee and 433Mhz sensors, running on a Pi with Micronaut, MQTT, and Prometheus. The last several years I kept looking for an epaper picture frame, and even thought of making one but it's too much of a hill that I want to climb.

When I said "I'm curious to see how the software works for making its images." I meant the images that get sent to it, how dynamic they can be; weather, time, etc. I'm assuming that a full screen image is what's sent and it can't update part of the screen, but who knows.

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