Project: Smart Home Dashboard

This is the announcement, not the guide. The full write-up - hardware, architecture, the Inkplate firmware, the Home Assistant setup and the k3s backend - is at Smart Home Dashboard, and that is the one to read if you came here to build one.

Yesterday I have released a new page on this blog, which describes my most recent project: a smart home dashboard using an Inkplate 10 e-ink display and Home Assistant as a backend.

Home Assistant displays a lovelace view of the dashboard which is then rendered to a JPG-image. The Inkplate wakes up every 20 minutes from it’s energy-saving deep sleep, retrieves the image, sends an MQTT message and goes back to sleep again. Thanks to the nature of the e-ink display, the rendered image stays on the screen.

If you’re interested in this project I highly recommend you check out my write up. In this article I go in detail about the architecture, all the components used and how I set everything up. As a contribution to open source I made my code available on Github. It’s all in the full Smart Home Dashboard guide, feel free to dig in and leave a comment. 🙂

At this point I would like to thank everyone joining the discussion on Reddit and especially everyone beeing so generous to give anonymous rewards. You guys really had an impact on my little blog here, as you can see from these metrics! 🙂

Posts on Reddit

It was posted to r/homeassistant and crossposted to r/homeautomation and r/selfhosted. The embedded links to those threads did not survive this blog’s move off WordPress, and I have not tried to reconstruct them from memory.

If you have any questions regarding this project please leave a comment or hit me up on Reddit. Cheers!