wall-ink VS GxEPD

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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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GxEPD

A simple E-Paper display library with common base class and separate IO class for Arduino. (by ZinggJM)
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wall-ink GxEPD
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10.0 0.0
over 4 years ago about 1 year ago
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GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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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.

GxEPD

Posts with mentions or reviews of GxEPD. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-05.
  • ESP32 + Waveshare e-Paper Display
    4 projects | /r/esp32 | 5 Dec 2023
    And the HelloWorld examples from GxEDP (https://github.com/ZinggJM/GxEPD) as well as GxEDP2 (https://github.com/ZinggJM/GxEPD2)
  • Waveshare 2.7 E-paper display on ESP32 not showing anything
    1 project | /r/esp32 | 24 Feb 2023
  • MH-ET ePaper module 2.9" help
    3 projects | /r/esp32 | 16 Oct 2022
    Hi thanks for your reply. The thing is that i couldn't seem to find demo code on the website though i did find a GitHub repo by MH-ET Live. Going through to the ESP32 file bring me hereto the GxEPD zip file. I've downloaded, included the library in my Arduino IDE and tried running the example code, commenting out all the 2.9" variants but still no luck, the programme freezes at the init stage with no change to the epaper display.
  • E paper display
    2 projects | /r/esp8266 | 9 Mar 2022
  • E-Ink Work From Home Calendar
    6 projects | /r/arduino | 2 Feb 2022
    It works, you have to use some creative programming. Check out this library GxEPD and try running an example image (https://github.com/ZinggJM/GxEPD/blob/master/src/GxGDEW075Z08/BitmapExamples.h)

What are some alternatives?

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

nodemcu-devkit-v1.0

GxEPD2 - Arduino Display Library for SPI E-Paper Displays

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

arduino-esp32 - Arduino core for the ESP32

Inkplate-Arduino-library - Inkplate family Arduino library. The easiest way to add e-paper to your project.

MH-ET-LIVE-E-Papers - For all MH-ET LIVE E-Papers

PrecIR - You know what this is for ;-)

Waveshare-Weather-Monitor - Weather Monitor - ESP32 & Waveshare eInk Display

Waveshare-ePaper-help

wall-ink vs nodemcu-devkit-v1.0 GxEPD vs GxEPD2 wall-ink vs GxEPD2 GxEPD vs nodemcu-devkit-v1.0 wall-ink vs wall-ink-server GxEPD vs arduino-esp32 GxEPD vs Inkplate-Arduino-library GxEPD vs MH-ET-LIVE-E-Papers GxEPD vs PrecIR GxEPD vs wall-ink-server GxEPD vs Waveshare-Weather-Monitor GxEPD vs Waveshare-ePaper-help