Posts tagged with Kindle
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Using my Kindle PW3 as a Dashboard for Home Assistant
An old Kindle, once jailbroken and running KUAL, can be repurposed as a dashboard for just about anything. I’ve actually done this before - though right now, I don’t really need those stats anymore. It would be nice, however, to show some real-time data from my Home Assistant setup on...
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Kindle + Python = e-Ink Dashboard (part 2)
In the last post a Kindle Paperwhite 3 was jailbroken, Python 3.8 installed and all boilerplate code was added to have a way to start our script and launch it from KUAL. Now we can dive into the actual Python code that will turn the device in a proper DashBoard....
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Kindle + Python = e-Ink Dashboard (part 1)
Kindles have amazing e-Ink displays, if we can manage to install Python on one, we could turn an old kindle into a low-power dashboard! An old Kindle is also considerably cheaper than a new e-Ink display module that can be hooked up to a Raspberry Pi. So it makes a...