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tyler109
This is amazing! Any thouhgts to commercialize it, or just a hobby project?
rahulrav
I started to work on this, because this is something I hoped existed. If there is enough interest, I am open to commercializing it. Its super easy to setup, especially given all my code is already open source :)
gwittel
Great work! I had been thinking about buying an Inkplate but as a hobby project I had wanted to focus my limited time on the application vs all of the glue (UI, Oauth, etc.). This might be the nudge to move me along. Thanks!
rahulrav
Thanks ! Happy to be able to nudge things along
neolog
Is that font the highest resolution it can be?
rahulrav
No, that is what looked okay to me. The font sizing on the Calendar is customizable.

You can also side load custom fonts. I am going to look into this, because the default fonts are a bit meh.

catchmeifyoucan
Hmm I wonder if this will work on the remarkable tablet
rahulrav
Based on my cursory look at `libremarkable`, the SDK looks a lot more capable. You will need to port the code from Python though :/
devadvance
Great work on this! I especially appreciate the use of the limited-input device flow, after seeing many device projects that use flows intended for servers :)

> Support & configuration for time zones

Are you referring to this? [0] Might be out of scope, but from experience, there are some date/time conversions that will require the TZ name (e.g., "Europe/London") to avoid needing to know whether to use the offset value or DST offset value. Could be worth including the canonical names [1] in a future revision.

Again, awesome work, and it's pushing me to try an E-Ink project of my own!

[0] https://github.com/tikurahul/Inkplate-6-micropython/blob/mas...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones

rahulrav
Thanks for your kind words and the tip about using canonical names. Will take a look.