This is my project, was very happy to see it suddenly on the front page.<p>I've been using it for over a year and its consistently been useful if anyone is on the fence about building one.
I've recently spent some time setting up Home Assistant [0] to corral the many smart devices in my home. In addition to the many IoT device control capabilities, HA has a rich integration/add-on ecosystem, and can pull in all sorts of additional data about daily life (financial feeds, weather, etc).<p>The missing piece for me right now is a device that acts as a control hub.<p>I hadn't considered using a Kindle, but now I'm excited about the possibilities. If I can use Life Dashboard to receive status information from HA (and possibly even send commands to devices), this might be the solution to that final missing piece.<p>[0] <a href="https://www.home-assistant.io" rel="nofollow">https://www.home-assistant.io</a>
Thanks, this might just motivate me to dust off my old Kindle. I recently started doing James Clear's habit tracker and now would love to find a way to track my habits on my Kindle if possible.
Pretty sweet project and from browsing the source I learned about a very cool fintech lib I'd never heard of: Plaid.<p>Gets the cogs turning with ideas. Thanks for the post.
Similar idea, even more low-tech and ambient: <a href="https://github.com/edmarkovich/pi-productivity" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/edmarkovich/pi-productivity</a>
<i>The project uses a serverless backend to collate data from external services and on the Kindle itself Rust code (cross compiled via docker) fetches and typesets the data into an image</i><p>If this is just a daily image, wouldn't it be a lot easier to just email the generated image to a non-modified Kindle on a daily schedule? It would require manually clicking 2 buttons every day to display it (Home > Today's Image), though presumably that side of it could be automated on the Kindle with much less modification.
I did something similar with a Raspberry Pi and Waveshare e-ink display:
<a href="https://github.com/makuto/home-life-display" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/makuto/home-life-display</a>
Fantastic work. Using the Kindle rather than the browser must be better on the mind and the eyes. I wanted to try something similar myself using Plaid. Thanks for sharing and good job.