Message from Anywhere?

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Thinking about buying this for my wife to put on her desk. Would be a cute gift for her calendar but I have an ulterior motive as well.

While working she mutes her phone and never looks at it. So if I need to text her something important she often doesn’t notice it for hours. As such was curious if I could display a message on the Tidbyte remotely from anywhere. Is that possible?

As an example the Tidbyte is flashing her calendar and I can log into the app and change display message to my text. Or do you have to be on the same wifi to change the display?

Thanks.

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There is an app called Textbyt that lets you text a message to a number that is then displayed on the device.

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It’s pretty easy to send any image to the tidbyt as long as you have the id and the api_key for the device.

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Very interested in hearing more info please!

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You’ll need to get pixlet running on your computer or webserver. Once you have that running you can write your own starlark code to generate a 64x128 pixel image or you can generate the image some other way (paint program maybe ?, in this case you wouldn’t need pixlet). Then you use curl to push via a call like this :
curl --request POST --url https://api.tidbyt.com/v0/devices/worryingly-benign-unlimited-crane-f05/push
–header “$(cat kitebit.key)”
–header ‘Content-Type: application/json’ --data ‘{“image”: "’$(base64 -w 0 -i windytron.webp)’",“installationID”: “windytron”}’

A much easier way would be to login to her tidbyt account and use the tidbyt app to display an image from your phone with the tidbyt photos app.

@Garavar You don’t need to be on the same wifi to manage a tidbyt.