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After seeing this, the IKEA CORRAS server rack in my living room needs a similar tasteful e-ink picture frame sitting atop it, for system status and general info.

This e-ink component includes red (for alerts): https://www.waveshare.com/12.48inch-e-Paper-B.htm



That's 16 seconds to update the display. I am familiar with the Kindle etc but this seems very long. I guess it doesn't matter too much for ambient display projects like this.

I found this example video of the display update process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr6Lt0gKjsI&t=22m43s


Sigh. Good catch. Sadly, this won't work for my living room ambiance.




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