Devices for temperature display

Hardware
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Greetings all,

For years, I’ve used an el cheapo La Crosse temperature display in our home.

In actuality, it’s two identical displays, getting the same signal from an outside sensor.

They are a bit recalcitrant, and I frequently have to remove all the batteries and then reinsert so they can synchronize.

Well, we had the coldest morning of the season, and yea verily it’s disconnected… again.

I’ve got a Zooz multi sensor outside that provides good temperature (amongst a number of things) so the idea solution would be some sort of display unit I can write a dashboard for.

So, I’m looking for suggestions on something relatively inexpensive, that I can put on a counter or cabinet to display temperatures and stuff driven of course by HA…

Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

Chris

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Could this work? Anyone looked into using Electronic Price Tag screens with HA?

3

Repurpose an old cell phone or tablet in kiosk mode showing a HomeAssistant dashboard that has your temperature readings?

Of course you would be tempted to show the forecast and historic graphs…

4

Any esp display can do this reliably.

5

Don’t really have any devices available for recycling.

thanks

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I’m sure you meant to be helpful, but I have no earthly idea what you are talking about.

Sorry

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Those are interesting.

My wife and I are at the age that we need something bigger in text size.

Cheers

8

Then use bigger text :wink:
You set the size yourself when configuring those devices.
You can also get a bigger screen.

2.9 and 4.2 inch are confirmed to work.

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I was meaning a esp32 device with screen. You can run esphome and program display to meet your needs

Esp-s3-box

Or

Esp-32 P4 touch panel

Or

Echo-ear

Look around expressif website for similar product

10

ok,

Looks great.

Where do I get them from and what are they called?

Thank you

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https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005002399342939.html

The integration you need is openepaperlink from HACS.
I use my devices with the stock firmware which means you need an ESP32 S3 flashed with openepaperlink Bluetooth AP.

If you flash the screens then you should be able to use any (?) ESP32 with ESP-Home proxy firmware.

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Thanks all, but I bought 2 of these

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I’ve got several Raspberry Pi’s around and I’ll use those and prolly design and 3D print a case/stand.

Is there a standalone Home Assistant app that runs on a Pi?

Or, would running Android (LineageOS) make more sense as there is a self contained Home Assistant app?

Thanks

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Hey all,

I’m putting all the bits and pieces together to craft a small(ish) temperature display.

The intention is for the display to provide local (at the device) and outside temps. Outside is easy, I’ve got a Zooz environmental sensor outside doing that and feeding into HA.

The big(ger) challenge is local temp. I could pull temps from the Nest, but I want actual temps at the device. Individual room temp can vary from the Nest display temp.

Before really investigating too much (?), I bought one (two actually) of these:

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The first downside, is it uses the same GPIO pins as the display shown above. The second, is there would be significant handwaving to get the temperature sensed into HA. I’m not averse to going through the exercise, but with two roadblocks already, I’m wondering if there is a better solution.

Any ideas of a sensor that could be used in this instance with ready (easy) integration with both the Pi and HA?

Thank you for any thoughts you can provide.