GxEPD2 VS wall-ink

Compare GxEPD2 vs wall-ink and see what are their differences.

GxEPD2

Arduino Display Library for SPI E-Paper Displays (by ZinggJM)

wall-ink

ESP8266 based e-ink conference room scheduler display. Repurposable through PHP-based server plugins to display any image. Outlook, Exchange, Booked, Google Calendar API and iCal server scheduler support. (by caedm)
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GxEPD2 wall-ink
12 3
888 166
- 0.0%
7.2 10.0
12 days ago over 4 years ago
C C
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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GxEPD2

Posts with mentions or reviews of GxEPD2. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-05.

wall-ink

Posts with mentions or reviews of wall-ink. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-02.
  • Anyone else’s Joan Displays Need Licenses Now?
    1 project | /r/sysadmin | 25 Apr 2023
    I'll use this thread as an opportunity to mention the open-source e-ink based solution out of BYU. (I have no affiliation.)
  • Meeting Room solution with iPad display
    1 project | /r/sysadmin | 10 Nov 2022
    This is an in-house solution but it's better than most of what you can buy commercially (and we've had Crestron iPad-controlled meeting rooms). I wish we could buy PoE (wired) versions of this without needing to make physically build ourselves, or get roped into some vendor's subscription rodeo.
  • E-Ink Work From Home Calendar
    6 projects | /r/arduino | 2 Feb 2022
    I took inspiration from this project: Wall Ink and use their Server Plugin to build the images for me. All programming done in Arduino IDE against the esp8266.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing GxEPD2 and wall-ink you can also consider the following projects:

GxEPD - A simple E-Paper display library with common base class and separate IO class for Arduino.

nodemcu-devkit-v1.0

Lilygo-T5-4.7-meteo-and-domoticz- - an E-paper domoticz console with Lilygo-T5

Tasmota - Alternative firmware for ESP8266 and ESP32 based devices with easy configuration using webUI, OTA updates, automation using timers or rules, expandability and entirely local control over MQTT, HTTP, Serial or KNX. Full documentation at

wall-ink-server - Accompanying server software for the wall-ink project. Plugins for room scheduling through Outlook, Exchange, iCal, Booked, and Google Calendar API.

esp8266_deauther - Affordable WiFi hacking platform for testing and learning

Sonoff-Tasmota - Alternative firmware for ESP8266 with easy configuration using webUI, OTA updates, automation using timers or rules, expandability and entirely local control over MQTT, HTTP, Serial or KNX. Full documentation at [Moved to: https://github.com/arendst/Tasmota]

wasm3 - 🚀 A fast WebAssembly interpreter and the most universal WASM runtime

TFT_ILI9341 - A fast Arduino IDE compatible graphics and fonts library including a driver for the ILI9341 based TFT displays.

EPD - A library to control WaveShare e-Paper display.