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Loving the e-ink screen (lemmy.world)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/meshtastic@mander.xyz
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Seeed Tracker L1 E-Ink. My only issue is that this case orients the screen 90 degrees off of the joystick mapping. I saw something about screen and joystick modifications coming to the inkhub interface but it doesn’t seem to be in the stable beta branch yet.

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[–] 6 points 8 months ago (3 children)

How fast does it refresh? Say if you're messaging people actively can it keep up?

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    Not sure about this one, but it depends on how you program it. If you program it like an led, it's horrible. But if you do it properly it's pretty fast. Animations kill the refresh rate. You can draw a new screen and refresh the whole screen in like half a second. But if you do something like a button animation where you change the color of the button then back then refresh the screen, you have three changes which can take a second and a half.

    So, yes, if done well, you can send and receive messages on e-ink fairly well.

    Unsure about this product specifically.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 8 months ago

    It doesn’t need to refresh the whole screen at once. However, if I have more than 1 other node visible to me and could be active, it would have trouble keeping up. The inkhub UI handles it much better and once I see the joystick integration hit the beta branch I will use that instead.

    For now I do most of my messaging via the phone app so it’s mainly just a very low power display for notifications.

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