How EpaperPix works

An e-paper panel can only show a handful of inks, and it keeps whatever it last showed with the power off. EpaperPix turns your pictures into something those inks can draw, and hands each frame its next picture when it wakes.

Create a free account Supported panels
Magnified: a picture built at 200 × 120 px for a six-colour panel. Every square is one dot of one ink.

From a picture to the wall, step by step

  1. Pictures in

    Upload a photo from your phone or computer and crop it to the panel, or describe a picture for the AI. AI pictures cost tokens; choose low, medium or high effort.

  2. Built for each panel

    An upload job lists your panels. Each picture is resized for every one, dithered to its inks with Atkinson dithering, and saved as a panel-ready file (.bin, or .bmp to check by eye).

  3. Slide shows

    Finished pictures go to the slide shows the job names. A slide show sets the order, how long each picture stays up, and quiet hours when the frame does not change.

  4. On the wall

    Give the frame your Wi-Fi and its device ID once. From then on it wakes, asks for its next picture, draws it and sleeps for as long as the slide show says.

Six ways to run a slide show

Pick a mode per slide show. You can change it at any time; the frame follows on its next wake.

Auto
Shows every picture in order, then starts again.
Random
Picks a different picture each time the frame wakes.
New
Moves forward to the newest picture and stays there.
Manual
Stays on the picture you chose until you change it.
Holding
Shows one fixed holding picture, for example while you are away.
Service
Shows the time or the weather, drawn fresh for the panel.

Supported panels

Each panel has a screen code. Upload jobs use it to build pictures at the right size and with the right inks. Pixels are the panel controller's, which is the size pictures are built at.

Panel Pixels Inks Screen code
Black & white
7.5" black/white V2 (serial, 2 planes) 800 × 480 2 V2A
7.5" black/white V2 800 × 480 2 A
5.79" black/white (dual controller) 800 × 272 792 of 800 columns visible 2 AS
2.9" black/white 128 × 296 2 AR
2.7" black/white 176 × 264 2 AR
2.13" black/white V2 128 × 250 122 of 128 columns visible 2 AR
1.54" black/white 200 × 200 2 A
1.54" black/white V2 200 × 200 2 A
Black, white & red
7.5" black/white/red V2 800 × 480 3 B
2.7" black/white/red 176 × 264 3 BR
1.54" black/white/red V2 200 × 200 3 B
4-colour: black, white, red & yellow
7.3" 4-colour 800 × 480 4 G
3.97" 4-colour 800 × 480 4 G
2.66" 4-colour 184 × 360 4 GR
2.13" 4-colour 128 × 250 122 of 128 columns visible 4 GR
6-colour Spectra E6
13.3" Spectra E6 1200 × 1600 6 ER
8.1" Spectra E6 1024 × 576 6 ES
7-colour ACeP
7.3" ACeP 7-colour 800 × 480 7 F
5.65" ACeP 7-colour 600 × 448 7 F
4.01" ACeP 7-colour 640 × 400 7 F

Questions before you start?

The help pages answer the common ones: getting started, picture formats, AI pictures and tokens. The Discord is where people share their frames.

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