Really appreciate both responses, thank you and have a great day! :)

Thanks for the write up, really appreciate it :) Looking further I agree e-ink was a misplaced idea…

I’d like to reduce the number of potential fire points for this, so I’d look too spend $30 extra to have non battery powered devices if possible, but we’ll see.

Which rpi and screen if I may ask?

Thanks! Can I ask briefly what can’t be done with it?

How do you manage battery bloat?

Yeah definitely a case by case situation of usefulness

Thanks for the comment! I did not have ESP32 on my radar at all until now.

I’m seeing a lot of AI slop articles on the HA forums, can you recommend any resources on the protocol, it’s control and anything to watch out for?

As annoying as this is, I agree. It’s a case of automate better or add a confirmation layer to the download decision.

The reason I don’t auto-DL anything yet is cos I’m too lazy to spend hours making sure it’s setup correctly.