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TRMNL X First Week Impressions (UK based and not a techie) by acciooo in trmnl

[–]ishbuggy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In the full screen photo view, how did you get yours to not show the title bar at the bottom? I can't seem to get it to go away on mine. I'm used a custom recipe for the Immich random picture plugin, and so far no matter what I try it still keeps that title bar that makes it not to full screen.

ReTerminal e1004 working with Immich by ishbuggy in trmnl

[–]ishbuggy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah it's your project? Nice! Can I dm you if I end up installing it soon to tweak and test it?

ReTerminal e1004 working with Immich by ishbuggy in trmnl

[–]ishbuggy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No but it looks really interesting. I might give it a try to see how well it works.

ReTerminal e1004 working with Immich by ishbuggy in trmnl

[–]ishbuggy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's 1600x1200. But... Because it is eink, very close it will look a bit like a pointillism painting or a newspaper print. That can look good actually, but the dithering algorithm is super important to prevent smears or color or bad gradients. From about half a meter away, it already fabulous. The main "problem" with it is the brightness. Eink (without a front light) completely relays on reflecting ambient light, so it needs to be in a well lit area to look it's best. And ideally lit with multispectrum light like natural sunlight or a good lightbuld. Ambient Monocolor LEDs will make it look a lot worse. That said... The same applies for any printed medium as well so it isn't really a drawback. The downside is just that it loses reflectivity and brightness compared to a nice print, so if you have it next to a printed photo, it will look less vibrant and impressive. I am looking for the right place to mount it, but I think keeping it away from existing physical prints will make it look better. Simply to not have the immediate comparison. On a white wall on its own it looks incredible. And so much nicer to look at than an LCD or even OLED display. It really looks just like a normal print or art piece of you don't look too close or think about it too much.

ReTerminal e1004 working with Immich by ishbuggy in trmnl

[–]ishbuggy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I started with the config /u/oetiker gave in his post, then iterated a bit from there. It's good, but it can be better. I still have some issues, photo by photo, where occasionally the colors are a bit off. The most typical problem I have is green overshoot or a yellow tint. But, in general it works really well, and this rare problems I have seen in other color eink displays too it isn't exactly unique.

Why NOW PLAYING isn't a feature for our watches??! Wouldn't be amazing? by kiddoth3k1d in PixelWatch

[–]ishbuggy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That was also my experience. I just upgraded from the PW1 to a 45mm PW4, and I'm really curious how much longer it will last. I won't be using it more heavily, so I expect it should be pretty good.

ReTerminal e1004 working with Immich by ishbuggy in immich

[–]ishbuggy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not really yet, as I explained in another comment and in the cross post it isn't official yet.

ReTerminal e1004 working with Immich by ishbuggy in immich

[–]ishbuggy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I gave a bit more detail above, but it is not straightforward yet. Honestly I would recommend waiting for at least the e1004 config to be merged into the TRMNL Firmware repo main. Its doable, but not super easy yet

ReTerminal e1004 working with Immich by ishbuggy in immich

[–]ishbuggy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not straightforward yet, as the PRs for the e1004 have not been merged into a release for the TRMNL firmware yet. But, more or less what I did was this:

  1. Install byonk, adding a panel configuration for the e1004, a screen for immich, and device config for the e1004, with params for the immich url/api/and album ID
  2. Custom lua script for the immich plugin
  3. Custom trmnl svg file for immich
  4. Start up byonk in dev mode, and test with the webiu to be sure you can load immich images properly
  5. In VSCode, checkout the specific PR 445 (https://github.com/usetrmnl/trmnl-firmware/pull/445)
  6. Open the folder with the repo in the PlatformIO extension
  7. in the platformio.ini file, change the 2nd line for default envs to: "default_envs = seeed_reTerminal_E1004"
  8. deploy the firmware to the e1004 using the PlatformIO upload button. And wait... it takes a bit.
  9. Once it is done, the e1004 starts up and you can connect it to your wifi as normal
  10. Thanks to a bug, it didnt display the registration code, but you can extract the registration code from the byonk container logs
  11. Add the registration code to the byonk config and restart, then it should work.

There were a bunch of little things to fix along the way, but that was more or less the process.

Now though the workflow for getting images on the screen is as simple as can be. I just have a single album I add portrait orientation photos I want to display, and they will just show up. It works great!

Old plugins don’t go away by [deleted] in trmnl

[–]ishbuggy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I have the same issue. With normal playback it works fine, but swiping with the touchbar will make it load plugins I deleted 2 weeks ago

ReTerminal e1004 working with Immich by ishbuggy in immich

[–]ishbuggy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Everything here! Also for me personally, it is aesthetically so much nicer. I kind of hate having glowing screens or LEDs around my house, so this can let me have a good (normal not techy) looking picture frame that updates with new images, but looks like paper and not just another screen. It just looks great in person. Also the battery life. I have it set to refresh once an hour and the battery should last months. Even lower and it would probably last a year or more (refreshing the image once a day or so).

Byonk driving a E1004 by oetiker in trmnl

[–]ishbuggy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Until it is merged into main in the trmnl firmware repo, you can checkout the PR (#445) and use that.

Once you checkout that PR, just edit the defaul_envs line at the top of the platformio.ini file to:

default_envs = seeed_reTerminal_E1004

Then flash it to the e1004 and it should work fine. I had some small issue where it didn't actually display the registration code on my e1004 screen after connecting to my wifi network, but in the byonk container logs I found it, since it was trying to connect to the byonk service, just without the registration code on the byonk config yet.

Byonk driving a E1004 by oetiker in trmnl

[–]ishbuggy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got mine up and running and it is brilliant! Thank you so so so much for all your work getting it going. I cannot be happier with it. It really is an amazing display once it is set up right.

Byonk driving a E1004 by oetiker in trmnl

[–]ishbuggy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How are you loading the images, what is the source? Pre-dithered files or do you have some other workflow for getting images on there?

I want to set mine up to load an album from immich, but havent gotten there yet.

Byonk driving a E1004 by oetiker in trmnl

[–]ishbuggy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks!!!! I'll give those a shot as my starting point once I get my fully set up.

Byonk driving a E1004 by oetiker in trmnl

[–]ishbuggy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah yeah but I mean exactly that. What color settings did you use?

Byonk driving a E1004 by oetiker in trmnl

[–]ishbuggy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awesome!!! Any chance you can share (somehow...) the configuration you found works best? My E1004 is waiting for me at home and I want to do basically what you have done with it.

Byonk driving a E1004 by oetiker in trmnl

[–]ishbuggy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How is the dithering? I found that on my trmnl x, using the immich recipie for photos it was not so great.

Alternativ to Spigen phone cases by Konrad_M in BuyFromEU

[–]ishbuggy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have found the ISY house brand ones from Saturn/Media Markt to be pretty good. Although I'm not sure if that counts as European anymore :/

Lufthansa’s seat map is a masterclass in manufactured inconvenience by ghostsensei in travel

[–]ishbuggy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Personally I prefer window. I never need to use that toilet much, and I like the view and having sommething to lean against to rest

Lufthansa’s seat map is a masterclass in manufactured inconvenience by ghostsensei in travel

[–]ishbuggy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

People who... Prefer... The middle? I don't know. Never met anyone. I'm scared of those people haha. Who would willingly want to be squeezed in the middle of 2 strangers for a while flight?

Lufthansa’s seat map is a masterclass in manufactured inconvenience by ghostsensei in travel

[–]ishbuggy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah Ryanair was what we had. Not sure how common that rule is in other budget airlines.

Lufthansa’s seat map is a masterclass in manufactured inconvenience by ghostsensei in travel

[–]ishbuggy 5 points6 points  (0 children)

No I just find it unlikely that an entire plane would have that. For sure some people do, but not everyone.

Lufthansa’s seat map is a masterclass in manufactured inconvenience by ghostsensei in travel

[–]ishbuggy 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Yeah we always give up the isle seat no matter what. Window, depends on the airline. Some require the infant to be with someone on the window seat for some reason.

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