ESPhome E-Ink Dashboard

Features

• ESPHome Dashboard on Waveshare E-Paper
• Displays sensor outputs
• Material Design Icons
• Ability to translate sensor output (example in german)
• Wordclock (german)
• Fits in IKEA Ribba Picture Frame

Hardware

• Waveshare 7.5 inch E-Ink Display with ESP32 driver board 72 €

• Logilink Flat USB Power supply 8 €

• 4.5 m micro USB cable 9 €

  (Amazon.de Affiliate links)

Download

A prebuilt binary for the hardware listed above can be downloaded from github.com: dashboard-epaper-esp32.bin

Instructions

1. Follow ESPhome documentation

2. Create secrets.yml and add your own values

   api_key: "your-api-key"
   ota_password: "your-ota-password"
   wifi_ssid: "your-ssid"
   wifi_password: "your-wifi-password"
   fallback_ssid: "Dashboard-Epaper"
   fallback_password: "your-fallback-wifi-password"

3. Integrate contents of home-assistant-configuration.yaml into your Homeassistant configuration.yaml

4. Download Material Design Fonts (links below)

   Copy fonts into fonts/ directory

5. Upload dashboard-epaper.yaml to your ESP32

   esphome run dashboard-epaper.yaml

Links and Acknowledgements

• Material Design Icons: https://github.com/google/material-design-icons/tree/master/font
• Material Design Icons: https://github.com/Templarian/MaterialDesign-Webfont/blob/master/fonts/materialdesignicons-webfont.ttf
• Lookup UTF IDs in MDI Font: https://pictogrammers.com/library/mdi/
• Inspired by this Project: https://github.com/Madelena/esphome-weatherman-dashboard
• Inspired by this Project: https://github.com/techdregs/E-Paper-DashBoard
• Inspired by this Project: https://github.com/paviro/ESPHome-ePaper-Calendar
• Semantic git commit messages: https://www.conventionalcommits.org/en/v1.0.0/#summary