TRMNL
No written verdict yet. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“you can likely setup BYOD with TRMNL”
“Maybe check out TRMNL, they've got a Home Assistant plugin.”
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“I bought a TRMNL display and set up a simple template to do the same”
“you can point a higher def Kindle to TMRNL”
“there are some great projects on the XDA Forums and GitHub”
Caveats and dissent
“I was trapped with no easy way to learn more about you guys”
Often compared with
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“we can only estimate token <> cost in our cloud agent”
“I built the koreader plugin”
“we call it Developer Edition, i think this is functionality the same.”
“check out trmnl .com for smaller / less expensive options and self hosted options”
“in theory our OSS lib would do the trick”
Threads where it came up
- I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard 5 mentions
- AI Agent – TRMNL 4 mentions
- Hacking on the ReMarkable 2 2 mentions
- Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations 1 mention
- Edit store price tags using Flipper Zero 1 mention
- Amazon rewards loyal Kindle devotees by closing the book on old e-readers 1 mention
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“you can likely setup BYOD with TRMNL”
Have you looked at OpenDisplay? I have recently been playing with 4 color shelf displays from supermarkets. I have one showing max UV in my bathroom and whether I should wear sunscreen. Any Bluetooth proxy can write ODL/OEPL data to the device. There is a designer (https://schlomo.github.io/odl-drawcustom-designer/).
“I also have a TRMNL”
“I was trapped with no easy way to learn more about you guys”
“Maybe check out TRMNL, they've got a Home Assistant plugin.”
“I bought a TRMNL display and set up a simple template to do the same”
“you can point a higher def Kindle to TMRNL”
“there are some great projects on the XDA Forums and GitHub”
“I love TRMNL for this exact type of usecase!”
“Have you seen these? https://usetrmnl.com/developers”