Views
A view is one screen of content on the panel — live data, static text, pixel art, or a frame-by-frame animation, with its own duration, brightness and overflow behaviour. Below is every way to start one, a live preview of each, and exactly how to build it.
How to create a view
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Open Views
From the interface (your device's IP address, or the demo), go to Views in the menu.
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Click “New view”
Opens the gallery of starting points below — a guided preset, a Custom blank canvas, or Import GIF / Picture.
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Fill in what it needs
A preset backed by live data asks for one thing — a city, a coin, a ticker, an API key. Custom and image imports drop straight into the editor.
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Build the layout
Drag each value into place, set its colour and font size, add more values (up to 6 per view, from any API or a built-in provider), paint pixels, or draw a frame-by-frame animation.
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Set its behaviour
Name, on-screen duration, brightness, and overflow mode — wrap, scroll sideways, or scroll up.
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Save
It's added to the rotation. Enable, disable or reorder any view from the Views list at any time.
Starting points
Eleven guided presets, a blank canvas, and an image importer — every one editable afterward, none of them a ceiling.
Custom
Start from a blank canvas — place text and paint pixels yourself.
New view → Custom.
Import GIF / Picture
Pick a GIF or an image — it's decoded in your browser, resized to the panel, and shown as a view.
New view → Import GIF / Picture → choose a file.
Weather
Current temperature and conditions for a city.
Requires a free API keyNew view → Weather → paste your OpenWeatherMap key → search a city.
Crypto
Live price and 24h change for any coin, with a decorative animated flourish.
Requires a free API keyNew view → Crypto → paste your CoinGecko key → search a coin.
Stocks & Crypto
Live price, % change, and a mini trend chart for any stock or coin.
Requires a free API keyNew view → Stocks & Crypto → paste your Twelve Data key → search a ticker.
Clock
Live time and date, each its own format — added as two separate, independently movable values.
New view → Clock → pick a time/date format.
Countdown
Counts down to a date you choose.
New view → Countdown → pick a target date & time.
Temperature & Humidity
Live readings from the on-board DHT22 sensor — added as two separate values. Optional hardware; no network needed.
New view → Temperature & Humidity — added instantly.
Clock + Weather
Time, date, temperature and conditions on one always-on tile.
Requires a free API keyNew view → Clock + Weather → paste your OpenWeatherMap key → search a city.
Quote
A rotating short quote, scrolling sideways.
New view → Quote — added instantly, edit the text after.
Custom Text
A short static message you type.
New view → Custom Text → type your message.
Pixel Art
A curated static icon — 19 to choose from, full gallery below.
New view → Pixel Art → pick an icon.
Animated Pixel Art
A looping built-in pattern — 14 to choose from, full gallery below.
New view → Animated Pixel Art → pick a pattern.
Every preset above becomes an ordinary, fully editable view the moment it's added — reposition anything, recolour anything, add or remove values. See Features for the complete customization reference, including custom JSON API sources.
Pixel art library
19 curated static icons. Drop one in, then repaint it pixel by pixel with the Move / Paint / Erase tools.
Animated pixel art library
14 procedural patterns. Pick one and it's baked into ordinary, editable frames — keep it as-is, or paint over every frame yourself.
Built-in effects library
26 denser, full-panel effects baked straight into the firmware — layer your text and data on top. Add-only: unlike Animated Pixel Art, these aren't pixel-editable afterward, since there's no per-frame data to edit — the pixels never leave flash.