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I would love to have something like this in front of every meeting room at work displaying the occupancy of the current day.

pmorici 8y ago
https://www.visionect.com/blog/digital-signage-how-we-built-an-e-paper-room-booking-system-with-google-calendar/ https://www.visionect.com/blog/digital-signage-how-we-built-... Google also did something like this but I can't find that write up.
- konschubert 8y ago
  You seem to know the market a bit. Can I buy an e-ink device that I can hang on the wall or put on the table and that will display today's appointments from my calendar for me?
  - gammatrigono 8y ago
    You can do this with a rooted Kindle: https://lifehacker.com/add-weather-and-google-calendar-information-to-your-kin-1215852264 https://lifehacker.com/add-weather-and-google-calendar-infor...
    - konschubert 8y ago
      But this doesn't automatically update itself, no?
- pmorici 8y ago
  Found it, the Google project was called Radish there was a write-up about it in 2008 https://developers.google.com/gdata/articles/radish https://developers.google.com/gdata/articles/radish
madenine 8y ago
We do this with old kindle fires. Works OK
- pvg 8y ago
  Aren't all of those non-e-ink?
kevin_thibedeau 8y ago
Crestron has a lineup that does this. You can make on the spot reservations without having to meddle with Outlook. https://www.crestron.com/en-US/Products/Control-Surfaces/Touch-Screens/Medium-Touch-Screens/TSS-752-B-S https://www.crestron.com/en-US/Products/Control-Surfaces/Tou...
izacus 8y ago
Visionect is a company that will sell you exactly such a system: https://getjoan.com/products/ https://getjoan.com/products/
IshKebab 8y ago
There are many many products that do this. They're all crazy expensive though and they generally use LCD tablets. The ones we've had at the last two companies I've worked at were battery powered and lasted for a day - somebody has to go around and swap them over once per day. I agree an e-ink solution would be much better but then these companies would have to do their own hardware since nobody sells e-ink tablets with a proper OS and they're way too niche to do that.
- amatix 8y ago
  Onyx Boox series run Android (some old, some new), and go up to 13” in size.
madsohm 8y ago
Herman Roebbers talked about this [1] at a conference earlier this year, together with the fact that the displays and what drives them have to be interconnected and low power. [1] https://ulpc.nl/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Herman-Roebbers.pdf https://ulpc.nl/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Herman-Roebbers.p...

pmorici 8y ago

https://www.visionect.com/blog/digital-signage-how-we-built-an-e-paper-room-booking-system-with-google-calendar/ https://www.visionect.com/blog/digital-signage-how-we-built-... Google also did something like this but I can't find that write up.

konschubert 8y ago
You seem to know the market a bit. Can I buy an e-ink device that I can hang on the wall or put on the table and that will display today's appointments from my calendar for me?
- gammatrigono 8y ago
  You can do this with a rooted Kindle: https://lifehacker.com/add-weather-and-google-calendar-information-to-your-kin-1215852264 https://lifehacker.com/add-weather-and-google-calendar-infor...
  - konschubert 8y ago
    But this doesn't automatically update itself, no?
pmorici 8y ago
Found it, the Google project was called Radish there was a write-up about it in 2008 https://developers.google.com/gdata/articles/radish https://developers.google.com/gdata/articles/radish

madenine 8y ago

We do this with old kindle fires. Works OK

pvg 8y ago
Aren't all of those non-e-ink?

kevin_thibedeau 8y ago

Crestron has a lineup that does this. You can make on the spot reservations without having to meddle with Outlook. https://www.crestron.com/en-US/Products/Control-Surfaces/Touch-Screens/Medium-Touch-Screens/TSS-752-B-S https://www.crestron.com/en-US/Products/Control-Surfaces/Tou...

izacus 8y ago

Visionect is a company that will sell you exactly such a system: https://getjoan.com/products/ https://getjoan.com/products/

IshKebab 8y ago

There are many many products that do this. They're all crazy expensive though and they generally use LCD tablets. The ones we've had at the last two companies I've worked at were battery powered and lasted for a day - somebody has to go around and swap them over once per day. I agree an e-ink solution would be much better but then these companies would have to do their own hardware since nobody sells e-ink tablets with a proper OS and they're way too niche to do that.

amatix 8y ago
Onyx Boox series run Android (some old, some new), and go up to 13” in size.

madsohm 8y ago

Herman Roebbers talked about this [1] at a conference earlier this year, together with the fact that the displays and what drives them have to be interconnected and low power. [1] https://ulpc.nl/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Herman-Roebbers.pdf https://ulpc.nl/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Herman-Roebbers.p...