epd-wm
Wayland compositor/window manager that outputs to IT8951 E-Paper displays (WIP). (by dj311)
e-Paper
By waveshareteam
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epd-wm
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4.4
Overall if you want a DIY e-reader, your best bet is to pick a low power board that supports Linux, run the most barebones system you can on it, and reduce its power usage by aggressive means (underclocking, undervolting, "deep sleep" by turning it off after X minutes of inactivity). Then for the eink part, use a barebones desktop environment, combined with a window manager meant for eink, such as epd-wm. After that, slap an ebook reader software like Foliate on top, and you're good to go.
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Turning an old Amazon Kindle into a eink development platform
I'd agree. I think a lot of single device re-purposing can be useful to others, but a development platform typically indicates a more general purpose. Something like https://github.com/dj311/epd-wm but a lot of these are only for specific chips. This one seems to have more support: https://github.com/vroland/epdiy
e-Paper
Posts with mentions or reviews of e-Paper.
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Waveshare 2.13 G
I had some issues with the Waveshare method under the "C" heading, but was able to get the "Python" set of instructions to work properly and run the test on my display. If you really do have a G-variant display, then the line "python3 epd_2in13g_test.py" in the last set of instructions should run a full cycle on your display cleanly (real-time clock counting for about 10 seconds at the end) before clearing and giving you command of the terminal again. If the test hangs at any point, its not the right test for your display and you will probably have to go through the rest of the [Github tests](https://github.com/waveshareteam/e-Paper/tree/master/RaspberryPi_JetsonNano/python/examples) until you find the most current one that works.
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Need help finding the root cause of Waveshare 2.13V3 noise
I ported the Waveshare V3 Python code to Rust. This had a similar outcome, perpetually waiting for the busy pin. The only thing that worked was clearing the display (filling the memory with 0x00/FF): it was blinking a few times in the init() - clear() - sleep() loop. Pixels have never become black/white, though.
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Need help with eInk display
Then demo for your eink display from waveshare GitHub and get that working first, any issues and we’ll try to help you troubleshoot.
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Waveshare E Ink display
Following Waveshare's Wiki, I think this is their Python driver/test code for the Raspberry Pi: https://github.com/waveshare/e-Paper/blob/master/RaspberryPi_JetsonNano/python/lib/waveshare_epd/epd3in52.py
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Any chance of lowering power consumption on this project?
I’d follow up on this path, it sounds like even their code may have issues with it: https://github.com/waveshare/e-Paper/issues/15
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LoveBox: E-paper display project to leave my girlfriend notes and pictures remotely. (Pi Zero W, Waveshare E-ink Display 7.5", Firebase Real Time Database)
I ended up including their shared library and using their python API to control the screen, as found on waveshare/e-paper repo
- Unable to get e-ink display to do anything
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Can anyone help with e-paper slideshow?
sample code for arduino here - https://github.com/waveshare/e-Paper
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Yet another Raspberry Pi e-ink display... but with a web app for extra display options!
Python scripts: these scripts actually retrieve the data and print it on the display. I heavily relied on the existing Waveshare Python libraries to figure out how to print text/images on the screen. The rest is essentially just requests to get data from various APIs (I used Open Weather Map, Pi-Hole, SEPTA, newsapi.org, and Wordnik). I set up cron jobs on the Pi to run the normal refresh script every half hour and to start the Node server on startup.
- Long refresh rate on 7 color e-paper display