Life Dashboard Viewer
Turn a Raspberry Pi into an always-on family wall screen showing your shared calendar, rotating photos, and push message cards.
What this seed does
Life Dashboard Viewer transforms a Raspberry Pi with an attached screen into a beautiful, always-on family information display. Once installed it shows your shared calendar (fed from a private Google Calendar link you provide), a rotating banner of your own photos, and up to five message cards that anyone on your home network can push to the screen from another device — no apps, no cloud service required.
Everything runs as a background service that starts automatically at boot and recovers on its own if it crashes. The screen is touch-first: you can finger-scroll through upcoming calendar events and swipe through photos. A single install command (run by an AI coding agent) handles the entire setup; you supply only your private calendar URL and drop your photos into a folder.
This seed covers the viewer side — the calendar proxy, the photo banner, and the message display on the Pi's screen. An optional companion seed (seed-life-dashboard) acts as the umbrella installer and lets a remote machine push message cards to the display.
When to use it
- I want a wall-mounted screen in our kitchen that always shows the family calendar without anyone having to touch it.
- I have a Raspberry Pi with a touchscreen sitting unused and want to turn it into a household info board that boots straight into our schedule.
- I want our family photos to cycle on a dedicated screen alongside our upcoming events, like a living picture frame with context.
- I want to push a short note or weather update from my laptop to a screen in another room without setting up any cloud accounts.
- I want a kiosk that survives reboots and power cuts and comes back on its own, always showing the calendar without manual intervention.
Source
Version history
1 releaseInitial Seed Release.
Dependencies
4 required · 1 optional- StateRaspberry Pi (aarch64) with attached displayrequired
- SWgitrequired
- SWChromiumrequired
- SWNotoColorEmoji fontoptional
Contributors
3 contributors
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