TL;DR: Over the past decade, I’ve worked to build the perfect family dashboard system for our home, called Timeframe. Combining calendar, weather, and smart home data, it’s become an important part of our daily lives.

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Around the same time, Boox released the 25.3” Mira Pro, the first high-resolution option for large e-paper screens. Best of all, it could update in realtime! Unlike the Visionect devices, it was just a display with an HDMI port and needed to be plugged into power. A quick prototype powered by an old Mac Mini made it immediately obvious that it was a huge step forward in capability. The larger screen allowed for significantly more information to be displayed:

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Most significantly, I started migrating towards Home Assistant (HA) as the primary data source. HA already had integrations for Google Calendar, Dark Sky (now Apple Weather), and Sonos, enabling me to remove over half of the code in the Timeframe codebase! I ended up landing a PR to Home Assistant to allow for the calendar behavior I needed, and will probably need to write a couple more before HA can be the sole data source.

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Since moving into our new home, we’ve come to rely on the real-time functionality much more significantly. Effectively, we’ve turned the top-left corner of the displays into a status indicator for the house. For example, it shows what doors are open/unlocked: