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Drop the last legacy widget-system and shared-token auth scaffolding
Server: migration 41 drops the pre-widget-system Frame columns
(mode/album_id/current_asset_id/queue/calendar_*/whiteboard_*, etc)
docs/widgets.md flagged as the deliberately-deferred Phase 6 cleanup,
with a raw-SQL backfill safety net for any frame that still somehow
lacks a Widget. Also drops legacy_token_enabled and the shared
MANAGEMENT_TOKEN fallback it gated in require_device/require_browser --
the per-frame manage_token/device_token flow (and the /m/ page) fully
supersede it now; MANAGEMENT_TOKEN's only remaining role is the
optional pre-setup claim gate. Confirmed with the maintainer that the
deployed frame is already off the shared token before removing the
server-side fallback.

Firmware: the captive portal's "Access Token" field and its NVS/
build_url plumbing only ever mattered for pointing new firmware at an
old pre-multi-frame server -- gone along with the server-side fallback
it fed. Version bump to publish the change.
2026-08-04 18:33:29 +00:00

ESPresso Frame

A DIY e-ink photo frame: an ESP32-C6 pulls photos from your Immich library and displays them on a 7.3" full-color e-paper panel, waking on a timer to refresh and spending the rest of its time in deep sleep.

  • No cables to a computer, no SD card shuffling. Provisioning is a captive portal with a QR code drawn on the panel itself -- scan, join, fill in your WiFi and server address, done.
  • The frame never decodes an image. A small self-hosted server does all the work (pulling from Immich, cropping, dithering, packing into the panel's exact pixel format) and hands the device a stream it can write straight to SPI. The ESP32-C6 has no PSRAM and not much SRAM to spare -- keeping it a dumb display client is what makes that workable.
  • Crops toward faces, not just the center, using face bounding boxes Immich already computed for its own People feature -- no bundled face detector.
  • Refresh interval and album are configurable from a web UI, no reflashing needed to change them.

Hardware

See docs/hardware.md for wiring, docs/architecture.md for how the two halves talk to each other, and docs/widgets.md for the server's placeable photos/calendar/whiteboard widget system.

Getting started

  1. server/ -- run the FastAPI server first (Docker Compose, points at your Immich instance). See server/README.md.
  2. firmware/ -- build and flash the ESP32-C6, then scan the QR codes it draws on first boot to provision it. See firmware/README.md.

Repo layout

firmware/   ESP-IDF project for the ESP32-C6
server/     FastAPI server: Immich -> crop/dither/pack -> the frame
docs/       Wiring and architecture notes

License

MIT -- see LICENSE. A few small pieces of vendored third-party code (a QR code generator, a bitmap font table) keep their own permissive licenses; see LICENSE for details.


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