I recently grabbed one of these fun little e-ink screens and have been using it to provide a view of what my home server is up to. First thing I did was build a Plex plugin for it, this involved bending flexbox to my will over the course of a few hours but I’m pretty happy with it. Now I can always be informed when one of my friends has a crippling addiction and binges 12 episodes of Love Island back to back.
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How do you handle the situation when several playbacks are happening concurrently?
If only one thing is playing, you get the screen I shared above. If there are more, it’ll show up to 3 posters with a condensed version of the username and progress bar below. It doesn’t show the title or description texts in that condensed mode.
The TRMNL can refresh the plugin data as quickly as every 15 minutes (configurable), and each time it’ll randomize the set of 3 it’ll show you. It doesn’t save any state, so you might get some of the same ones on the next refresh, but I figured that’s fine since it’s mostly just for fun.
Here’s an earlier screenshot with 2 things playing, I cleaned up the presentation a bit since then but it looks basically like this:
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This is super cool!
This is amazing. E-ink makes a lot of sense
Would love to see more frequent refreshes and other real(ish)time server stats (CPU, memory, bandwidth) along with tautulli like activity information.
This looks super cool! 
I’ve considered doing something similar myself to show what music is playing in each room. As I’m running Sonos Gen1 I’ve turned to their CR200 for now. But that won’t work forever 
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