Community catalog
Everything the community has contributed to Tesserae, in one place. Verified entries are reviewed and maintained by the catalog owner. Install any of them from inside the app.
Timeline-rail agenda view: upcoming events grouped by day, with a thin ink rail connecting per-event nodes and a coloured start-time chip carrying the feed accent. Auto-grows 1 to 4 columns until the whole list fits, so titles stay legible on wide e-ink panels without truncating.
Current conditions + daily or hourly forecast from any Home Assistant weather entity (met.no, MeteoSwiss, Météo-France, BoM, ...). Hero, forecast strip, and up to six metric tiles: humidity, wind with compass bearing, rain, pressure, gusts, visibility. Requires HA Core.
Label-free map art for any place, drawn from OpenStreetMap vector tiles: land, water, parks and a road hierarchy, and nothing else. Seventeen themes from stark mono to warm paper, plus a custom palette.
Digital clock with selectable timezone and seven faces: classic bold type, split-flap flip cards, seven-segment LCD, stacked poster type, outline, dot matrix, and a mono terminal prompt. 12/24-hour, optional seconds, date and label lines, light or dark ink.
Air quality, pollen count, and detailed wind widgets. Data from Open-Meteo (no key required). For users who want more than the bundled weather_now / weather_forecast cards.
Flights currently overhead at your location via OpenSky Network (free, no key). Radar plus the nearest N flights with callsign, altitude, speed and distance, and an opt-in route lookup (SYD→MEL).
Full-bleed Immich photos with multi-library admin. Pick a library + mode per cell: today's memory, random asset, random from album, or random from tag. API keys encrypted at rest. Cascades through Immich's thumbnail derivatives, transcodes HEIC server-side.
Full-bleed widget that paints a curated public-domain or Creative Commons artwork on every render, pulled from the paperlesspaper-art catalog (Met Museum, Art Institute of Chicago, Wikimedia Commons, SVG Repo). Optional artist + title caption overlay.
An all-sky chart of what is actually above you: 5,000 stars, constellation figures, the planets and the Moon's real phase. Computed from a built-in catalogue, so it needs no API key and makes no network call. Three layouts including a full-bleed wallpaper mode.
Aurora alert score (NOAA SWPC) and current moon phase. Two-widget celestial bundle. No API keys.
Read-only checklist from your CalDAV / iCal todo lists (Baikal, Radicale, Nextcloud Tasks). Reads VTODO items from the same Calendar Core feeds the calendar widgets use, leads with what needs action, and shows due-date chips, an iCal priority dot, and per-feed colour ticks.
Latest, random, or a specific xkcd comic, with the hovertext printed as a visible caption instead of a mouseover-only tooltip.
Contour lines for any place on earth, traced from an elevation model, with water, railways and roads over them. Index contours carry their heights and the high point gets a spot height. Eight themes, from a 1-bit mono sheet to shaded relief.
Word clock (QLOCKTWO style) and multi-timezone world clocks. 2-widget bundle, no setup beyond a timezone picker.
Photo carousel from a Google Photos album shared by link, full bleed. Reads the public share page directly (no Google account or API key). Orientation filter, random or sequential rotation, fit/fill/stretch/blurred scaling, caption and sequence overlays. Skips videos by default.
Responsive now-playing view for prioritized Home Assistant music players, with cover art, track metadata, extracted colours, Canvas-matched layouts, local artwork caching, and lossless HEIC/HEIF conversion.
Host stats tile + summary card for a glances API server. CPU/RAM/disk gauges, host state pill, uptime. For users running a homelab box.
Render the next-up screen from your TRMNL account on a Tesserae cell. Paste a device API key; Tesserae steps your playlist like the TRMNL firmware would, or mirrors what your TRMNL device shows. The token never leaves the host, which proxies the image bytes itself.
Countdown to the next public holiday, with a short upcoming list.
A list of dates you care about and how many days are left to each: birthdays, holidays, a trip, a deadline. One event per line with a name, an optional Phosphor icon or emoji and an optional yearly repeat. Pure client-side, no network.
Photo carousel from a public iCloud Shared Album link. Single-widget bundle. Uses reverse-engineered Apple Shared Album endpoints, undocumented but stable for ~10 years. No API key needed.
Today + the next two days as a three-column timetable. Built from the calendar_day timetable rendering and the calendar_schedule widget's day-bucketing approach. Each event's colour comes from its feed (Widgets → Calendar Feeds).
The birds BirdNET-Go has heard today as printed pages: classic plates by Audubon, Gould and Lear, or AI paintings in 47 styles or your own prompt. Ten layouts, from a field log to a page of the day's birds. Colour, greyscale and mono panels. Demo garden until set up.
Single-pair FX rate (frankfurter.app), a single stock ticker (free Twelve Data tier), and a single crypto pair (CoinGecko). 3-widget bundle. Some upstreams need a free API key, see the README.
Any Apple Reminders list explicitly published by any paired Tesserae Companion, shown as Tasks, Food, Shopping, or a custom checklist. Configure labels, relative dates, urgency colours, item limits, columns, and optional daily refreshes. Read-only with no network access.
Newly downloaded shows and movies straight from Sonarr / Radarr history — an editorial hero with the latest poster, a poster wall, or a compact list. Cover art is fetched and inlined server-side; your API keys never reach the panel. Works with either app or both.
Write markdown, get a note, a sign or an e-ink shelf label. Type it into the cell, or point many cells at one markdown document split into sections, so a whole shelf of tags is edited in one file. Auto-fits the type, with frames, inversion and rotation.
Six medium-vivid, feature-colour-led light themes (slate, clay, moss, plum, harbour, copper). Each has a gently tinted off-white canvas and a coherent 6-accent palette led by its namesake colour. Theme pack: installs all six.
Six atmospheric gradient themes (veil, deep, rose, flame, arctic, emerald) inspired by the bundled Aurora. Each follows Aurora's 135deg three-stop linear-gradient structure with a different hue range evoking a sky phenomenon.
Full-bleed generative fractal art: fractal tree, Pythagoras tree, Sierpinski, Koch, dragon curve and Barnsley fern in seven colourful palettes. Reshuffles each render, or pin a fractal, palette and daily-stable seed.
A Pokédex entry from PokéAPI — real base stats, types, pixel sprite and dex text. Random every refresh, Pokémon of the day, or a fixed pick; pool from the Kanto 151 to all 1025. Three looks: house style, classic red Pokédex device, or Game Boy mono green.
Whether a meeting room is free or busy, when that changes, and what is booked next. Four layouts behind an auto default that fits the cell. Reads a feed from Widgets → Calendar Feeds; booking is optional and goes through your own endpoint.
Now-playing, queue, album art, and top tracks/artists/albums (4 weeks to all time), plus a non-placeable service that feeds the Spotify Web API to AI canvas code elements. Shared OAuth via spotify_core. Needs a free Spotify Developer app; README has setup.
Open Todoist tasks for any filter query (today | overdue, #Work, p1, …), overdue-first with priority colours, due dates, projects and a due-count fragment. API token, read-only. **Testers wanted** — not yet run against a live account; feedback welcome on the repo.
Race weekend timetable, last race podium, next-round countdown with circuit silhouette, and current driver standings. 5-widget bundle. Data from the Jolpica Ergast-compatible F1 API (no key required).
What has actually been seen around your panel: the species most often recorded nearby, or the ones spotted in the last day, from iNaturalist's public observations. Nine group filters, and list, single-photo or gallery layouts. No API key.
Track one flight end to end: scheduled and actual departure, estimated and actual arrival, gate, terminal and baggage, with a live progress bar between the two airports. Set a flight number and it follows that flight. FlightAware AeroAPI, your own key.
Fourteen linear-gradient surface themes that used to ship bundled with Tesserae (sunset, aurora, twilight, spectrum, coral, mist, sand, sage, linen, mauve, marble, glacier, honey, pearl). Pairs especially well with 7-colour Spectra panels.
Cinema-style Emby now-playing poster for prioritized Home Assistant players, with metadata, locally cached artwork, and rating badges. Accurate IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes scores require the Emby Rating Sync plugin.
Full-bleed, top-down generative koi pond: seeded lily pads, day-opening lotus flowers, and koi that drift with the clock — the same pond persists across refreshes, gently alive. 15 palettes, borderless and no-gradient modes, optional Home Assistant entity koi sized by value.
Hourly LLM-ranked news front page (AI, markets, sports, world) rendered for e-ink.
Latest articles from Hackaday, the hardware-hacking publication, with the Jolly Wrencher in the header. Pick the hero layout for a featured image up top, or the list layout for a tighter run of headlines. Pure RSS, no API key.
Four widgets for the aircraft overhead right now, from adsb.lol or your own receiver: a photograph of the very airframe, one aircraft on a plate, everything near you in a cluster, or a painting across the page. AI paintings in 26 styles, a style builder and your own prompt.
What just landed in your Plex library — an editorial hero with the newest poster, a poster wall, or a compact list. Reads recentlyAdded across every section (movies, shows, music) and inlines the cover art server-side; your Plex token never reaches the panel.
Fifteen saturated single-colour themes that used to ship bundled with Tesserae (tangerine, lime, cobalt, magenta, emerald, crimson, cyan, aubergine, mustard, teal-pop, hot-pink, lavender-pop, olive-pop, burgundy, forest).
Live evcc snapshot: PV forecast vs actual, house, battery, grid, and optional charger.
15-widget bundle: Inbox (every open issue, PR and discussion across your repos, with repos to leave out), hero stats (stars, streak, open PRs, CI, star growth, heatmap, cadence), repo card, PR queue, releases, contributions, CI timeline, activity feed. Token via github_core.
Your Goodreads bookshelf — recent reads with covers, star ratings, a now-reading line and reading stats, read from a public shelf's RSS feed. No API key: just a user ID with a public profile. Shelves: read, currently reading, want to read; list and stats fragments.
Render one Companion-published seven-day Apple Health summary as an overview, activity trend, sleep breakdown, or workout list. Reads only the latest expiring server snapshot; no network access.
Print status tile for an OctoPrint server: current progress, ETA, hotend/bed temperature, and print-in-progress state. For users with a 3D printer running OctoPrint.
Ten saturated feature-colour-led light themes (rust, amber, fern, teal, azure, indigo, orchid, rose, grape, ink). More punch than Tonal, less canvas-as-feature than Vivid; one consistent supporting accent palette across the pack.
Theme-aware QR codes for text, links, Wi-Fi credentials, and vCards.
The birds and wildlife around the panel, cut out and packed onto one printed page, each as large as the page allows, from BirdNET-Go, iNaturalist or GBIF. Classic plates, photos, or AI paintings in twelve styles or one you build; a paintings page with limits you set.
Originally based on an Oregon hardware weather station, this was now adapted to provide a classic Macintosh feeling. Displays conditions of the day, wind, temperature and pressure with moon phase. The board should only ask for a single City / Location parameter.
Two football widgets on ESPN's public scoreboard + standings APIs. Match (next / last / live for your team) and Table (league standings or World Cup group blocks). Supports World Cup, Champions League, Premier League, La Liga, Bundesliga, Serie A, MLS, A-League.
Used MCP prompt and Claude to try and have a nice rendering of a Neumorphic design for the calendar. It renders quite well on the Seeed E1001 !
The Poorly Drawn Lines webcomic by Reza Farazmand, from the site's public RSS feed. The latest strip or a random one from the archive, as a framed card, a comic-left/details-right split, or edge to edge. No API key.
Pulls recipes from any schema.org site (RecipeTin Eats, BBC Good Food, NYT Cooking, etc.). Paste URLs or RSS feeds per cell; widget rotates through them with hero image, title, prep / cook / total times, ingredients, instructions, and a QR code back to the source.
Agenda, month calendar, and recently aired list for a public Trakt profile. Shared Core needs a Client ID; creating a Trakt API app currently requires VIP.
Turn a public Uptime Kuma status page into an e-ink homelab command center with live health, uptime, latency, incidents, response history, and nine selectable layouts.
Australian Bureau of Meteorology weather warnings by state (severe storms, fire weather, marine, etc). Shows current warnings with type, severity, and headline. No API key.
This is a rendering of the European Synoptic map for the PicPak
Ten mid-tone coloured-canvas themes (brick, saffron, olive, pine, lake, storm, mulberry, wine, terra, graphite). One step back from Vivid: meaningfully coloured canvases without crossing into max saturation.
Next departures for a Melbourne PTV stop. Official PTV API v3 (free key). Currently Melbourne-only; PRs welcome to add other regions.
Rotating Unsplash photo tile keyed off a search term or collection. Free API key (50 requests/hr is plenty for an hourly e-ink rotation).
This is a compact weather station designed for the PicPak BWRY screen. It uses only primary colors of the panels for best colors and contrast The tiles are reacting to the content (e.g : high temperature will be in red) Designed with help of an LLM (Claude)
Three data-aware AI widgets sharing one Anthropic + Fal.ai key. ai_brief writes a 1-3 sentence summary (Claude); ai_scene generates a data-reflective image; ai_image is the ambient art widget (heir to fal_image). Token + cost tracking in the AI Core admin page.
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Today's front page of a newspaper: about 165 papers in 31 countries from kiosko.net, plus The West Australian, the Sunday Times and WA's regional papers from their publisher. Full bleed, or with the paper's name and date. No API key.
Three widgets for the station and the bright satellites passing over your place to-night: the best pass with a sky chart, every pass in order or packed as a cluster, or a painting in space. Passes worked out on your server from CelesTrak, no key. AI paintings in 25 styles.
Hero number for any PostHog trends metric — pick the event, math, date range, and an optional property filter to point it at your own project and site. Optional area sparkline or bars, a trend chip, and peak/avg stats. Bring your own PostHog API key.
Four widgets for the ships on the water near you, from aisstream.io or your own AIS-catcher: a photograph of the very ship (Commons and Openverse, no key), a plate, a fleet, or a painting on a painted sea. AI paintings in 28 styles, from her photograph or her particulars.
Connected clients from your UniFi console, with names, IP addresses and connection details. Uses the Network API with encrypted key storage. Includes filters, list pages, optional MAC addresses and compact or comfortable layouts. Reads data without changing network settings.
Four AFL widgets on the public Squiggle API (no key). Live ladder, Next Match (guernsey duel + form), Round Fixtures, Last Match (with goals.behinds). Original guernsey art and monogram badges; toggle per widget.
Compact colour poster wall that separates watched or replaying media from first-time continue watching and recently added titles.
Just a funny HTTP return code explained with cats :-) Images from http.cat website
Tasks, a list, or a grid of cards from any Notion database. Detects which columns hold status, date, priority, person and project by type, so it fits databases you already have. Filter by column conditions or to your own items, sort, and group under headings. Several accounts.
A framed print for the wall, new each day, in fourteen styles: Bauhaus, Swiss, Constructivist, ridgeline, Memphis and sunburst posters drawn free, public-domain museum prints, or AI posters (woodblock, travel, deco, riso, botanical, linocut) with the words set in real type.
The Twonks webcomic by Steve Nelson, read from the site's own gallery data. The latest comic or a random one from the archive, as a framed card, a comic-left/details-right split, or edge to edge. No API key.
One YouTube channel's health at a glance — subscribers with 7/30-day delta, latest video's views vs the previous upload, 30-day view momentum, likes + comments, and the top video this month. Bring your own free YouTube Data API key.
Next NMBS/SNCB train departures or arrivals for a Belgian station. Live data via the open iRail API. Pick a station name, or an iRail station ID such as BE.NMBS.008892007, per cell.
Prices for gold, oil and about sixty other commodities: metals, energy, Australian NEM power, farm goods, freight and carbon. Live futures where a free feed exists, IMF monthly prices where it doesn't, in any currency, with sparklines. No API key.
A minimal hello-world widget. Renders a configurable greeting + the current local time. Use it to confirm the marketplace install pipeline works end-to-end on a non-bundled widget.
Worked example for widget developers. Pairs a _core admin plugin with a display widget that exercises every cell_option type, server.py fetch + blueprint + choices_from, and theme-aware CSS. Install + read the source as a reference.
A clue board for live games. Type a clue on the widget's own page and the panel shows it set like a page of a book: paper ground, serif face, room-legible type. Saved presets send a prepared clue in one click, and every send can push a chosen dashboard to the panel.
The birds a BirdNET-Go or BirdWeather station heard, drawn by Fugleramme's own renderer as hand-coloured 1800s plates packed onto one page: the window's collage, the latest bird or the newest arrival. Plates are fetched from Fugleramme on first use. Demo garden until set up.
History graph of a Home Assistant entity (6 hours to 7 days) beside its current value and an optional second entity's value, with configurable labels, icons, number formats, graph size and value position. Requires HA Core.
Live device attributes from a Hubitat Elevation hub via its built-in Maker API (local HTTP, no cloud). One attribute is a hero number with trend + 24h sparkline; several become a list. Shared Hubitat Core holds the hub URL + token.
Agenda, month calendar, and recently aired list for a public MyAnimeList profile. Shared Core for username and optional Client ID; episode times from AniList.
OpenRouter credit balance, total spending, daily tokens and requests, seven-day spend history, and top model on an e-ink dashboard.
Four widgets for the trains and trams near you right now: Melbourne (PTV Timetable API or Transport Victoria key), Boston, Brisbane, the Gold Coast or any GTFS-Realtime feed. Photographs of the very vehicle or her class, AI paintings side-on in 26 styles.
Current alerts for one region of Ukraine from the Home Assistant Ukraine Alarm integration: every active alert with its start time, above an alert timeline of up to 48 hours. Alert types can be hidden. Requires HA Core.
Live bus countdown board for one TfL stop: the routes it serves, then each approaching bus with route, destination and minutes until due, from TfL's Unified API. Filter to one route or a destination. Works without an API key; add a free one for a higher rate limit.
Tonight's gigs from Triple R's Melbourne gig guide: start time, act and venue per row, grouped by day. Pick the calendars (Gig Guide, RRR Presents, Arts Diary, Community), the day window, and a venue or artist search. No key, no account.