reTerminal E1001 ESPHome integration

Hi there!

I got the new reTerminal E1001 from Seeed Studio, a cool ePaper display (probably the best i’ve tried so far).

It includes temperature and humidity sensor, battery and buttons. All of them can be monitored easily through HA, via ESPHome.


You can find full code and some examples in this article:

I hope you like it :slight_smile:

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Thanks, I bought the same device and have been playing around with SenseCraft.

Looking forward to being home and making a small Home Assistant / Weather dashboard with it

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I also have got a e1001 yest some days ago. I got issues with the screen flashing several time on screen updates. I tried instead model: 7.50inv2p. This variant supports partial updates. It works perfectly. And at least my e1001 supports it. Just give it a try. It is worth it.

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Thanks for the info! Currently i am playing with the E1002 (full color version), i will share the code soon!

I have designed a frame with my 3D printer so that the screen (both the reterminal E1001 and E1002) fits perfectly into the Ikea Rodalm frame. You can download it from this link (and, by the way, see a small spoiler of the ‘comic dashboard’ I created with the E1002 :sweat_smile:).

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I just got an E1002. So far managed to get a photo onto it via SenseCraft, but haven’t been able to get ESPHome to connect/write to it. The E1002 seems to do a LOT of flashing/rendering to get the colors all working, which is kind of annoying. We’ll see how it goes once I get more details set up.

It is done via esphome or “screenshot integration”?

It does! It is supposed to need more time to load the image because of the colors, but it wasn’t enough for me to use full color images, until i found a workaround :grin:

100% ESPHome, I’ll share my code and technic soon!

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Can someone help me with this problem with a Seeed e1001? It displays sensor values form HA, but after waking up it needs too much time to display them correctly. So the values stay empty or say ‘NA’.

To save energy I send the device to sleep fo 4.5 min and make it wake up for 30s.

As a remedy I update the display a second time during every wake cycle. But this is not optimal since the missing information is still displayed between the intervals.
Is there a way to not update the display unless the sensor data has been retrieved succesfully? Or do you see an even better solution?

You can fix this by adding a small delay at boot so the display waits until the sensor is connected.