Over the past decade, I've worked to build the perfect family dashboard system for our home, called Timeframe:

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A decade-long personal project building a family e-paper dashboard called Timeframe, evolving from a Magic Mirror LCD to jailbroken Kindles, then Visionect e-paper displays, and finally a 25.3" Boox Mira Pro with real-time updates. The system aggregates calendar, weather, and smart home data, with Home Assistant now serving as the primary data source. Key architectural decisions include removing the database and Redis from the Rails backend, using file-store caching, and a status-indicator design philosophy that only surfaces actionable information. The project remains a work-in-progress with hardware cost and distribution challenges still to solve.

How I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard

Decade-long iteration shows what actually matters simplicity, signal over noise, and tight integration with real life. Stripping the stack down and focusing on actionable info is the right call.

This looks amazing, I didn’t even realise you could get eink displays this large… I want one

It is really inspiring. I built <a href="https://hunor.xyz/posts/Office-eInk-Screen/" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">one </a>to display my status in my office. It is not as polished and depends on Home Assistant. However I bought a separate smaller version for home use.