Just found this: https://usetrmnl.com/
Found it interesting because it has a similar premise as the Tidbyt but the display is made of e-ink (like a Kindle). It has a higher resolution and can show more stuff on the screen, but it is also black & white and has no animations.
What are your thoughts on the “Kindlebyt”? 
Meh. That thing is smaller than the nav/infotainment screen in a car. No thanks.
That would be awesome for my desk setup. I currently have my Tidbyt infront of my desk. Not very ideal for readability specially with my eye sight (and apps that have dizzying, fast animations). I have ordered some acrylic panel and matrix diffuser as well. Will see how that goes. Funnily enough, I have been trying to look for an e-ink small display for my desk. It is cheaper than Tidbyt so thats cool for my wallet as well lol
The Tidbyt is 8.2" x 4.4" I believe, and this gadget is 6.75" x 4.5". Not that far off
It looks awful. The Tydbit is really a unique design
I’m surprised it has things like YouTube (in black and white?) but no weather. Haha. This could be a good display for a Tempest unit.
It’s a YouTube analytics app, to show the number of followers and stuff like that.
e-ink displays have a very slow refresh rate, they are not suitable for displaying videos and animation.
This is the list of apps and there’s a “Weather” one there!
I think this will be like Tidbyt, after launch people will start asking for new apps and they will probably add them gradually.
Oh, I see. That makes more sense.
It’s interesting. I thought about getting my dad a Tidbyt, but this seems like it would be more his style.
Hey @McDuck, TRMNL supports Tempest now!
Check it out: TRMNL | Tempest Weather Station Plugin
There’s also a standard weather plugin: TRMNL | Weather Plugin
Awesome. Thanks for the update!
Looks great to me. Wish i didn’t buy the tidbyt v2. Feel scammed lol. used it 3mo, the display is weird and i cannot publish apps anymore already. uff.
That one is open, better display and better price. nice.
Does it have a simpler programming language? Or at least an interface that makes it simple to use a difficult language? I’m sure the market for these things is specific niche cases, and stock brokers, financial analysts, weather geeks, and casual users don’t have time to invest in learning a new language…just want it to be easy to make it do what you need…I have the Tidbit Gen 1 and Gen 2, have had similar devices over the years, but all are difficult to customize for the “average user” and ultimately die off.
Yes, it has a simpler programming model. If the data you want to display is available through an API, you just need to setup the API URL in the TRMNL dashboard and it will fetch the data for you on a configured interval. Then all you need to do is use a mix of HTML and the TRMNL Design System (CSS) to display the fetched data on the screen.
This usually works well and covers most of the cases, including financial and weather APIs.
For more complex use cases you’ll need to implement your own API and then point TRMNL to it. For example, I have one case where I read HTML data from a website and then extract the bits I need. I had to create my own API (in my own programming language of choice) that does all this work and returns the data to TRMNL nicely formatted in JSON.