If anyone thought of a Tessera display and ESPHome (Home Assistant) – supported choices in the larger display sizes are limited. One supported screen is Seeed’s D1001 – and it’s very nice.
Under my D1001-based Tessera panel so far.. Notice that the weather, map and calendar panels open to their own full screen on touch.
Support for the D1001 is described in the Tessera control panel as “experimental”, but so far it works just as well as my Guition 4″ displays which are also very nice – but you can’t get away from them only 4″.
I’ve also been looking at a 10.1″ display from Elecrow but that’s not quite ready for prime-time yet. The “experimental” label on the Seeed display had me worried but as you can see in the image above – so far I’ve had no problems apart from the map but I suspect that’s a generic Tessera issue – it was just working before I started doing this write up..
It’s worth noting that when you added the seed unit, it went down immediately and the tiles worked immediately, but when I added extra WiFi SSIDs – doping in ESPHOME to make the change – I encountered an error that stopped the compilation – immediate thought – must be the new display – it turns out that was not the case – Tessera is especially compiling resource-hungry assistant when I have an assistant. of course) with 8K of RAM and even if it would have been SIMPLE enough at the same time, when you start binging in all kinds of APPS (add-ons) for AI and cameras etc, 8GB starts to be a bit of a limit – nothing to do with the D1001 specifically. When the code was compiled – I saw something about only using 2 simultaneous compilers due to only 2.3GB available…. then it bombed.
Anyway, simple solution, I temporarily disabled some apps that I don’t currently use, like Code Assistant and one of the camera enhancement apps, and that freed up more memory. The next time I tried to compile the 1001 display, no problem.
The 5 column setup I use on the D1001 display is just fine for big thumbs – could probably squeeze in 6 columns – all configurable in Tessera. Of course, I have yet to try to use the many additional functions of the D1001 display – (and find out what the antenna connector and 4G SIM sockets do – the 4G is described as optional). There is a micro-SD socket (I could imagine offline photo albums), dual microphones, the unit has a 2500mAH USB rechargeable battery (currently I only run on USB power), speakers and I have already seen position sensors there (in the factory demo) – so much to play with, so little time…