[atiti]

Recently saw a guy do a really cool E-Ink display for smart homes here:

https://github.com/Madelena/esphome-weatherman-dashboard

He lists out the materials and code he used. He went with a low cost / low power ESP32 microcontroller. This is fine if you mostly want to do lower resolution, static stuff. Here you could design something that'd run off batteries for quite a while.

If you're into fancy animations, maybe some videos, then you'd need to go with something a bit more beefy, closer to a Raspberry PI running some sort of *nix, potentially with some browser to render beautiful pages :)

Obviously there's significant price difference between the two approaches, but there's also some pros and cons you'd need to consider.

[bhu1st]

Great resource. Thank you so much.

How much price difference are we talking about here between the two approaches?