I am honestly so fucking dissapointed at #TRMNL (company) that I am going to look into how to decouple it from the company.
Would anyone be interested in joining a chat for it?
I am willing to drive some hacker community for this. I am shit with hardware but with enough help we might get something done.
Edit: i am not interested in building similar infra or whatever. I just want to send images to the device in local network.
Edit2: room made, followers only for now
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Adam (@adam@social.lol)
Attached: 3 images Just learned some really sad things about Ryan Kulp, the guy who makes the TRMNL. Would not have bought one if I had known beforehand.social.lol
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Sylvia
in reply to Akseli • • •Hi, may I suggest to ensure compatibility with other devices such as perhaps something like seeedstudio.com/XIAO-7-5-ePape… or whatever else people would recommend, so this also helps those who returned their devices on time? ;)
I'm definitely interested in following this, I saw @Wren was also working on github.com/BasementCat/fruitst…, perhaps forces can be joined somehow (if you both are interested that is)? :)
Keep me updated! I love the idea of TRMNL but hate the lies and the company :)
GitHub - BasementCat/fruitstand
GitHubWren 🐁
in reply to Sylvia • • •@SylvieLorxu I am taking basically that approach - so anything that can fetch a bmp from an URL and render it should probably just work, more or less (as I'm not familiar with the other offerings out there, I expect that there might need to be a little tweaking but I'm sure it can be made to work)
What's on my GitHub right now should be functional enough to use, actually - I'm trying to improve some rendering issues and am going to add authentication but it's definitely at the MVP stage
Akseli
in reply to Akseli • • •I will very likely set up matrix room because its what i know best, but im not opposed to having a bridged IRC channel
But i am 100% committed to driving this
Akseli
in reply to Akseli • • •What I know already is that in the end, TRMNL device gets some calls from the mothership and then an image. Everything it displays is a JPG basically.
So if we can figure out how to submit images to it, either over USB or WIFI, that would be already big.
Jyrki
in reply to Akseli • • •i wonder if the path/host of these calls could be changed on the device itself; surely it needs to register itself somewhere to receive update events
that’s very likely gonna be a firmware thing though
Akseli
in reply to Jyrki • • •Sylvia
in reply to Akseli • • •@nilsding Sort of, it just proxies everything through their server. All the plugins are closed off. So it is fairly useless for most cases: chaos.social/@SylvieLorxu/1148…
Sylvia
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