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A new page element runs Conway's Game of Life in an area (the whole display by default), one per page. Start: random dots, one pattern, or the icons whose names start with a text in turn or in random order. Edges: wrap around, dead, or a hidden margin where gliders fly out of view (leftovers that stay put in the margin are cleared, so a glider gun runs cleanly). It restarts when the board is still or repeats within 16 generations and/or after a number of generations, after a hold time (an empty board at once). logic/life holds the board and timing (tested), display/life_player runs the board of the shown page, ticked before each frame; frames are paced like scrolling text. The element reuses existing fields, so the page format stays the same. The Icons tab has a library of 17 LifeWiki patterns (checked with a simulation), and the built-in page "Game of Life" shuffles through the life_ icons. About 12 KB flash, 8 KB RAM. Version 2.17.0, tested on the display over OTA. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Pages
The dynamic pages on the display, drawn by the ESP32 itself (python tools/make_page_screenshots.py makes these pictures again). The Clock and Game of Life pages come with the firmware (they can be changed, Reset brings back the original);
the others are the example pages in examples/home-pages.json
with their icons (import them in the web UI, System tab). They use this home's Home
Assistant entities: change them to yours in the page editor (climate.home,
sensor.envoy_000000000000_... and sensor.plex_server are placeholders).
python tools/export_examples.py writes the file again from the pages on the display and
replaces private parts of entity ids by these placeholders.
| Page | |
|---|---|
| Clock (from the firmware), day and from 17:00 | ![]() |
Game of Life (from the firmware): the life_ patterns of the Icons tab in random order on the whole display, hidden margin, 4 generations per second, a new pattern when it stops changing or after 600 generations; random dots without patterns |
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| Weer: clock, weather icon by state, humidity, temperature | ![]() |
| Verwachting: today (icon, temperature now, max/min) and the next 2 days (weekday, small icon, max/min); needs the forecast sensor | ![]() |
| Dag en nacht: sun from 07:00, moon and stars from 19:00, date | ![]() |
| Energie: net power now, solar today, clock | ![]() |
| 3D printer: progress, time left, status message (scrolls), nozzle temperature | ![]() |
| 3D printer finished: shown for 10 minutes after a print completes (rule), with the status message | ![]() |
| Binnen: room and outside temperature, CO2, air quality | ![]() |
| Verbruik: water and energy used today, solar today | ![]() |
| Grote klok: big clock, inverted from 22:00 | ![]() |
| Datum: weekday and date | ![]() |
| Aftellen: countdown to Christmas | ![]() |
| Stopwatch | ![]() |
| Bad: how full the bath is (a progress bar from a Home Assistant number) and the clock; a rule shows it while the bath fills | ![]() |
| Plex: how many watch, play/pause, title (scrolls) and progress of the Plex user (Tautulli) | ![]() |


















