Calm dashboards for the e-ink panels in your home.

Build a page in the browser, or ask an agent to build it. Tesserae renders it for your panel and keeps it fresh on a schedule.

Self-host it Join the Cloud waitlist

Flash it from your browserGot an ESP32 panel? Open-source firmware over USB, pointed at your own server. The cloud is optional.Read the docsInstall guides, every supported panel, the widgets and the device API, all in one place.Star it on GitHubThe source, the issues and the roadmap. 918 stars so far, and a star helps others find it.

E-ink panels of different sizes on a sideboard, each showing a Tesserae dashboard

Every screen above is a Tesserae page, on real hardware.23 panels verified

Self-hosted or in the cloud. Your panels work with either.

Self-hosted · Open source

TesseraeServer

Run it yourself: one container on hardware you already own, or a Home Assistant App. Free and open source under AGPL-3.0.

DockerOne container on any machine
Home Assistant AppAdded in one click from Home Assistant
Shell, Windows or LXCLinux, Windows or Proxmox

Install it GitHub

Hosted · Launching soon

Tesserae Cloud

Nothing to install. Sign in, create a dashboard, and connect your display. A separate hosted Tesserae, built for the cloud; your panel isn't tied to it and can move to a server of your own at any time, though its Cloud dashboards would need recreating there.

See the plans and prices

Install in a few minutes.

Pick how you run things. Every option ends at the same web app on port 8765.

mkdir ~/tesserae && cd ~/tesserae
curl -fsSLO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dmellok/tesserae/main/docker-compose.yml
docker compose up -d

Open localhost:8765 and set a password.Full Docker guide

# Settings → Apps → App store → ⋮ → Repositories
# Add this URL, then install "Tesserae" and click Start:
https://github.com/dmellok/homeassistant-tesserae-addon

Open Web UI. Home Assistant handles the login.Add to Home Assistant Full Home Assistant guide

# macOS · Linux · Raspberry Pi
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dmellok/tesserae/main/install.sh | bash

Open localhost:8765 and set a password.Full Shell guide

iwr https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dmellok/tesserae/main/install.ps1 -UseBasicParsing | iex

Open localhost:8765 and set a password.Full Windows guide

lxc launch images:debian/trixie tesserae
lxc shell tesserae
apt update && apt install -y git python3 python3.13-venv
# then the manual venv install:
git clone https://github.com/dmellok/tesserae.git && cd tesserae
python3 -m venv .venv
.venv/bin/pip install -e ".[dev]"
.venv/bin/python -m app.main

Open the container's IP on port 8765 and set a password.Full LXC guide

git clone https://github.com/dmellok/tesserae.git
cd tesserae
python3 -m venv .venv
.venv/bin/pip install -e ".[dev]"
.venv/bin/python -m app.main

Open localhost:8765 and set a password.Full Source guide

Compose on a canvas

Place widgets, text and shapes anywhere on an artboard sized to your panel. What you see is what it paints.

Or ask an agent

Describe a page to Claude or any MCP client, such as "Will I need an umbrella, when's my tram, and what's on tonight?", and it builds it, previews it and pushes it to the panel.

Fed by what you use

Calendars, weather, Home Assistant, transit, GitHub, the news and a growing catalog of community widgets.

Beautiful by default

Widgets that draw like prints, such as the 1800s bird plates of Fugleramme. No design work needed, and no AI art.

Example data. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors · Bird plates after John Gould and others, from Fugleramme by Arne Giacomo Munthe-Kaas, CC BY-SA 4.0

Grids, canvases and code.

Snap widgets into a grid, place widgets, text and shapes on a canvas, or write the page yourself in HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Each one renders at its panel's own size and colours. All nine use example data; open any of them full size.

Kitchen: The weather, a clock, the next twelve hours and the shopping list, on a 7.3" colour panel by the fridge. — Grid · 800×480 · 6 coloursKitchenThe weather, a clock, the next twelve hours and the shopping list, on a 7.3" colour panel by the fridge.

Tasmania: A trip itinerary with a countdown: the ferry, the drives and the walks, a forecast and what is still to pack. — Code · 1200×1600 · 6 coloursTasmaniaA trip itinerary with a countdown: the ferry, the drives and the walks, a forecast and what is still to pack.

Bedside: Tomorrow's alarm set large, the weather, the moon and the first thing on the calendar. — Canvas · 480×800 · Black and whiteBedsideTomorrow's alarm set large, the weather, the moon and the first thing on the calendar.

Home Assistant: Solar and battery flows, the front-door camera, locks, two climate zones, lights and what's playing, in the dark theme. — Grid · 1200×1600 · 6 coloursHome AssistantSolar and battery flows, the front-door camera, locks, two climate zones, lights and what's playing, in the dark theme.

Front door: A wide strip by the door: the weather, the next trams, bin night and a parcel to collect, in black, white, red and yellow. — Canvas · 1360×480 · 4 coloursFront doorA wide strip by the door: the weather, the next trams, bin night and a parcel to collect, in black, white, red and yellow.

Power prices: Half-hourly electricity prices against the solar curve, drawn in SVG, with the cheapest window, the battery and today's cost. — Code · 1872×1404 · 16 greysPower pricesHalf-hourly electricity prices against the solar curve, drawn in SVG, with the cheapest window, the battery and today's cost.

Desk: The time in words, the weather and the next few days of the calendar, on a 4.7" handheld. — Grid · 540×960 · 16 greysDeskThe time in words, the weather and the next few days of the calendar, on a 4.7" handheld.

Homelab: Which services are up, CPU and network sparklines, the disks and the last backup. — Code · 800×480 · Black and whiteHomelabWhich services are up, CPU and network sparklines, the disks and the last backup.

The way in: A street map of Fitzroy North, the trams from Johnston Street and the next twelve hours. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors. — Canvas · 1872×1404 · 16 greysThe way inA street map of Fitzroy North, the trams from Johnston Street and the next twelve hours. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.

23 panels, verified on real hardware.

Each one has painted a Tesserae page on real hardware before it joined this list. Flash ESP32 panels from your browser; Pi, Kindle and TRMNL clients install in minutes.

Open the flasher

Seeed Studio7

reTerminal E1001800×480

Store^*

reTerminal E1002800×480

Store^*

reTerminal E10031872×1404

Store^*

reTerminal E10041200×1600

Store^*

reTerminal Sticky480×800

Store^*

XIAO 13.3" ePaper (EE02)1200×1600

Store^*

TRMNL 7.5" OG DIY Kit800×480

Store^*

Pimoroni4

Inky Impression 4"640×400

Store

Inky Impression 5.7"600×448

Store

Inky Impression 7.3"800×480

Store

Inky Impression 13.3"1600×1200

Store

M5Stack3

M5Paper540×960

Maker

PaperS3540×960

Maker

PaperMono / PaperMono Lite480×800

Store

Waveshare3

Waveshare 13.3" Spectra 61200×1600

Store

Waveshare 7.3" PhotoPainter800×480

Store

Waveshare 10.85" e-Paper HAT+ (G)1360×480

Store

TRMNL and Kindle2

TRMNL X1872×1404

Store

Kindle Paperwhite 2 (jailbroken)758×1024

Project

Xteink2

Xteink X3528×792

Store

Xteink X4480×800

Store

paperlesspaper1

OpenPaper 7800×480

Store

PicPak1

PicPak 4.2" photo frame400×300

Project

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