Issues showing dashboard on an Joan E-INK tablet

A Former User

Hello everyone!

I’ve been playing around with MagicMirror software to use as a dashboard on an Joan tablet. (https://getjoan.com/). I use their Visionect software suite to send an URL to the display to show on there. That works without issues. So I thought, why not send a MagicMirror dashboard to it .

I have MagicMirror up and running in a docker, works perfectly via the webbrowser on multiple devices. But when sending it to this Joan tablet, all I get is a black page (the background color of MagicMirror). Changing the background color to white results in a white page.

But text is not shown, neither are images. The display can handle it, because I can push that manually via the software suite. But somehow, it can’t handle the text send by MagicMirror.

Anyone have a suggestion what might case this? There is a connection, just contents are not showing. Not even the weather or calendar.

Big thanks in advance!

Michel

sdetweil

@miesjel12 the MagicMirror software uses the latest JS ES6 language idioms
this requires a browser with that level support…

most old ipads/tablets and TVs are not updated , when I started here in 2017, I could run MM on my samsung tv, now I cannot (black screen)

here is a good table of browsers that support different levels of function
Browser versions

A Former User

@sdetweil said in Issues showing dashboard on an Joan E-INK tablet:

@miesjel12 the MagicMirror software uses the latest JS ES6 language idioms
this requires a browser with that level support…

most old pads and TVs are not updated , when I started here in 2017, I could run MM on my samsung tv, now I cannot (black screen)

here is a good table of browsers that support different levels of function
Browser versions

Hmm, that must be the issue. I’m pretty sure that Joan does not offer support for this.

Thanks for your quick reply!

sdetweil

@miesjel12 many of the e-ink devices require some front end pre-processor service,
as the e-ink doesn’t support everything (font shading… motion, …)

read page in service, provide filtered page on different URL

like this(know nothing about this, just results of google search)

https://github.com/lapwat/papeer