r/trmnl

Seems like the dude who made this and the Peanuts plugin has let these plugins go away.

Wondering what the status is on EU shipping and fulfilment in general.
I understand it is a difficult and unpredictable process, but it would be good to get a few more updates.

We'll see if this gets removed, but I was super disappointed to see the views of the CEO of what I thought to be a very cool company. I will not be supporting someone who wrote a eulogy for Charlie Kirk, sells "Napalm Smoothies" at a Vietnamese restaurant he owns, and supportes MAGA. Mods keep removing anything critiquing him, but I am severely disappointed.

We ordered the new TRMNL and will be taking our money elsewhere.

I like TRMNL but it's a bit underwhelmin for me. I'd like something more dynamic, with a higher refresh rate and maybe a colored display.

What do you recommend? I am not afraid of writing code.

Wanting a TRML for my work desk, but the wifi will be provided by my phone with a Hotspot on.

What does TRMNL look like when it's no longer connected to the internet?

For example, if I have one displaying pictures, will it keep displaying pictures it may have locally, or just glitch out because it can't connect to download the next picture?

I finally got delivery of my x on friday as i was heading to my inlaws for mother's day. Device seemed to work fine initially and i was able to connect it to inlaws wifi and preform the initial setup.

I got home today and could not get the device to enter into wifi pairing mode after ~30mins of frustrating attempts. Finally, found the video demostrating the process here: https://help.trmnl.com/en/articles/11511577-enable-wifi-pairing-mode, which confirmed my device was not responding to simultaneous left/right press.

I figured maybe its a firmware issue, went through the process of updating my firmware to 1.8.2 and now my device is completely silent. I see the logo in the bottom right corner, but that's it. won't respond to any commands and no signs of life.

Anyone run into similar issues?

I figured I'd share a proof of concept TRMNL BYOD app for a Samsung TV [github].

My original plan was to use it as a rotating dashboard for our family calendar but for a number of reasons I've decided to instead just show a home assistant dashboard directly. I figured someone here might find this a useful template though if they want to explore something similar so thought I'd share.

This is not an app published to the Samsung app store (though no reason the trmnl folks couldn't do this?). This means to use it you need to put your TV into developer mode and use the tizen SDK to sideload the app on your TV. Fair warning, the tizen tools are terrible to install and use, I included a few notes on how I did it but it requires a good bit of trial and error to get the SDK running and working.

The app itself is straight forward. On first run it will ask for your device api key and then just hits the API to fetch the next screen (basically similar to the chrome extension or trmnl-web where I got the idea for this). It also has a few options/settings, e.g. configure the default resolution, and some key bindings to allow pressing next or forcing a reload.

I've debugged things enough to ensure they worked but no guarantee of zero bugs since I'm no longer planning to use it. I do plan to improve the readme on how to install/use it, particularly if someone is interested in trying this thing on a long-term basis (as you can see in the video, it worked fine for my BYOD).

Here's a few examples in case you want to see what it looks like

https://preview.redd.it/tizti41xyd0h1.png?width=3024&format=png&auto=webp&s=6ab44685cfaaa72cb6a1e2f0fe82e4a6f6beda10

https://reddit.com/link/1t9l2fn/video/glf7np2jyd0h1/player

TRMNL - 3 sizes, 2 weights, 1 family

after tinkering with pixel fonts for 2 years, we finally have our own. see how to enable it on your device here: https://trmnl.com/blog/introducing-typography

and since we think everyone building on ePaper deserves crispy, legible content, this will soon be made open source.

Does this screen also get the recent benefits of the 4 color and quick/clean refresh?

If so what if anything do I need to do to enable it?

I ordered a DIY 7.5 kit from Seeed Studio. It arrived quickly, but also arrived damaged. They said they'd send out a replacement. About a month later, after hearing nothing, I decide to check in on the shipment. I get the Mail Delivery Subsystem email saying that techsupport@seeed.io is unreachable. The same email thread I had already had a few back-and-forths in. What? How?

So I create a new support ticket asking about this replacement, then a bit later I get an email saying it's been sent out. Cool. I can forgive this I guess.

Then today I get an email from DHS saying I need to pay the import duty myself or it'll be sent back in 5 days. Here I go messaging Seeed again via a 3rd ticket.

For a defective part replacement, I'm sure having a hell of a time. Have others had this experience?

I received a new trmnl device, but when I am trying to set it up, I get a message “MAC … not registered.”

I emailed support, but while I’m waiting to hear back, I was curious if anyone else has experienced this, and whether I am correct that this needs to be fixed on the company’s end.

Is there a way to do the following:

1. Have a primary plugin displayed on the device, updating periodically.
2. Have a secondary plugin update its image in the background periodically, never showing on-screen.
3. ...unless you swipe the touch bar left/right, then show the secondary plugin's cached image*. Swipe again to return to primary.
4. Revert to the primary plugin after 5 minutes, if it was not swiped back from secondary.

*I do not want it to have to load a new image from the server like it does when you Tap the touch bar.