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Get set up while Tufty is on sale 🤣 pimoroni.github.io/statsbadge/

pimoroni.github.iostatsbadgeA standalone hardware monitor for Windows, macOS and Linux. Serve your system stats to a mini wireless extensible and portable screen.

unfinishedstuff.bsky.social

@unfinishedstuff.bsky.social

4 Aug

Damnit Phil, I thought I'd escaped the Pimoroni sale with only a small purchase... How challenging would it be to build a custom page, e.g. to use it for smart home data?

Gadgetoid

@gadgetoid.com

Smart home data is something I wanted to give real thought to, possibly building a separate app for it. What's your data source? Originally I wanted to run the server *on* Home Assistant (optionally) but it's much easier just to integrate existing APIs.

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unfinishedstuff.bsky.social

@unfinishedstuff.bsky.social

4 Aug

I didn't get on well with HA, so my data source would be "however I can squeeze stuff out of zigbee2mqtt". If a Tufty could talk to the MQTT server that'd be super, but it wouldn't be hard to kludge it with a web page of data to scrape. My main concern was creating the graphics.

Gadgetoid

@gadgetoid.com

4 Aug

The whole system is based around a server that runs on your PC (or Pi) which gathers data and sends it to Tufty. Includes a full config UI too. So yes MQTT is entirely feasible... I wonder if a generic MQTT source would be a good addition, with no specific front-end.

unfinishedstuff.bsky.social

@unfinishedstuff.bsky.social

4 Aug

Ok, I'm sold. I hadn't realised that Les already has a couple of micropy tutorials with MQTT on the Pimoroni website, so I should be able to work something out with my own graphics, but being able to pipe them into your fancy graphics would be even better.