Thomas Faour
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A new self-contained widget type showing user-authored rich text -- no
live upstream to poll, like the static image widget, just word-wrapped
styled text instead of an uploaded image.
The dialog's contenteditable HTML is never stored or replayed as HTML:
app/text_content.py parses it server-side (on save) into a plain
paragraphs-of-styled-runs structure -- the actual sanitization
boundary, since raw HTML never round-trips back into any browser DOM
(the dialog rebuilds its editor from that same JSON via
createElement/textContent). app/widgets/text.py renders it with a
custom word-wrap/shrink-to-fit layout, using real vendored font weights
(app/fonts/NotoSans-{Regular,Bold,Italic,BoldItalic}.ttf, OFL-licensed
like the emoji fonts already there) rather than every other widget's
single ImageFont.load_default() -- the one widget type where that
distinction matters.
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
- ESP32-C6 dev board (8MB flash)
- Waveshare 7.3" E Ink Spectra 6 (E6) panel -- 800x480, 6-color, SPI
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
server/-- run the FastAPI server first (Docker Compose, points at your Immich instance). Seeserver/README.md.firmware/-- build and flash the ESP32-C6, then scan the QR codes it draws on first boot to provision it. Seefirmware/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.
Built with substantial assistance from Claude Code.