Home-Assistant

The IKEA Varmblixt is a $30 RGB+white Zigbee pendant. It pairs directly to ZHA in Home Assistant, has smooth color transitions, and a wide enough color gamut to be useful as a status indicator. I turned it into an ambient display for my apartment — weather during the day, a sunset script at night, a cycling green light at 6:30am, and a solid red door alarm when I forget to close the front door. ...

This is a working log. The TRMNL X is ordered but hasn’t arrived yet. The server is running. What is TRMNL X TRMNL makes e-paper displays designed to sit on a desk and cycle through widgets — weather, calendar, news, whatever you build. The X model supports BYOS (Bring Your Own Server), which lets you point the device at your own backend instead of their cloud. That’s the only mode I’m interested in. ...