I built a $100 ePaper photo frame that never touches the cloud, and it looks like a real print
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A DIY self-hosted photo frame built using the Seeed reTerminal E1002, a color ePaper ESP32-S3 display, ESPHome, Home Assistant, and Immich. The setup pulls photos from a local Immich library, processes them in Home Assistant (resizing to 800x480 and dithering to the Spectra 6 color palette with calibrated values), then serves them to the ePaper display over local Wi-Fi. The device wakes from deep sleep, fetches the image, renders it, reports sensor data, and sleeps again — no cloud services, subscriptions, or third-party accounts required. Total hardware cost is around $100.
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A $100 screen that looks the partImmich is Google Photos, but without the cloudESPHome ties the whole thing togetherSort: