ROON NOW-PLAYING DISPLAY / ESP32 APPLICATION
Roon Inkplate
Roon now-playing album art on an Inkplate 6PLUS e-paper display, with touch controls
About this project
About this project
Whatever Roon is playing gets printed on e-paper: a Node.js bridge renders the cover into a 1024×758 frame, dithers it to the panel's 8 grey levels and serves the finished 388 KB image, which the Inkplate 6PLUS polls every 2 s and skips with a 304 when nothing changed. Layout, font, volume ceiling and frontlight are tuned on the bridge, so the board rarely needs reflashing. Touches split by area: tap the art to pause, swipe sideways for tracks, swipe up or down for volume; the text strip toggles and dims the frontlight. The bridge runs in Docker or plain Node, light enough for a Raspberry Pi, and the board side is an Arduino IDE sketch.
From the README
From the README
- Limit
- serves it as a ready-to-draw 388 KB image
- Build
- The Arduino IDE (2.x) to flash the Inkplate.
Hardware
Boards: Soldered Inkplate 6PLUS
Supported hardware: Soldered Inkplate 6PLUS. Confirm the exact board revision and pin map in the upstream repository.
What the source supports
Upstream evidence: Reviewed from public README media at commit 9cd5b37d824d under MIT. Firmware was not executed.
Media credit & rights
Upstream project media · rights remain with its owner · Credit: mbdmbd
Screenshots decoded from the upstream README at a pinned commit. Repository code and firmware were not executed; the license texts are included in the preview package.
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