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Originally Posted by Renate
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.
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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.