An epaper display showing Octopus Mini data available from Home Assistant using ESPhome
The display is controlled by an ESP32, the display is a Waveshare 2.9" e-paper display
Requirements
This project pulls data from the Home Assistant integration created by BottlecapDave
https://github.com/BottlecapDave/HomeAssistant-OctopusEnergy
To be a customer of Octopus Energy
Have an Octopus Mini
Home Assistant Setup with ESPHome
ESP32 £7 from Amazon programmed via ESPhome
Waveshare 2.9" E Paper screen £25.99 from Amazon
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Setup
Connect your display to your ESP32 as via the pins in yaml
Copy yaml into ESPhome and install on ESP32
Data displayed currently
Current battery SOC % from Victron system
Current local time
Electricity kWh used today
Gas kWh used today
Cost Electricity used today including standing charge
Cost Gas used today including standing charge
Pulls data every 60 seconds.
To Do
Start up Splash screen
Make a case for display and ESP32
Setup code for a larger screen size
Screen Shot of current version
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