Widget gallery

The 30 widgets that ship with Tesserae. Each is a drop-a-folder widget under plugins/<id>/; drop your own in and it shows up in the editor's picker. Want to build one? See Build a widget with AI.

Stability tiers

Stable = backed by an official, documented API. Best-effort = undocumented but long-lived endpoint. Fragile = scraping or a soft policy, convenience only. Local = computed on the host, no upstream to break. See Screens & compatibility for the hardware side.

Weather

• Weather, Forecast · weather_forecast

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  5-day forecast as a row of theme-aware cards: day name, condition icon, high / low temps, and rain probability. Data from Open-Meteo (no API key).

  Sizes: sm md lg · Tier: -

• Weather, Hourly · weather_hourly

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  Hourly temperature line with a shaded area + condition-icon strip across the top. Defaults to the next 12 hours; configurable to 24 or 48. Data from Open-Meteo (no API key).

  Sizes: xs sm md lg · Tier: -

• Weather, Now · weather_now

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  Current conditions plus feels-like, humidity, wind, UV and sun times. Data from Open-Meteo (no API key required).

  Sizes: xs sm md lg · Tier: -

• Weather, Scenic · weather_now_scenic

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  Screenshot pending, run python scripts/capture_widget_shots.py.

  Current weather as a pill card with weather-and-time-of-day theming. Uses the extended palette opt-in so soft gradients (sunset, night sky) render on 7-colour e-ink panels via the renderer's dither pass. Data from Open-Meteo (no API key).

  Sizes: sm md lg · Tier: -

Clocks & time

• Clock, Analog · clock_analog

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  Analog clock face. Pure SVG, no network. Five face styles, pick the one that suits the rest of your dashboard.

  Sizes: xs sm md lg · Tier: Local

• Clock, Sunrise / Sunset · clock_sunrise_sunset

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  Today's sunrise, sunset, golden hour, and day length for a chosen lat/lon. The hero shows a sun-arc visualisation with the current position marked. Data from Open-Meteo (no key).

  Sizes: sm md lg · Tier: -

• Clock, Word · clock_word

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  Word clock, reads the time as English text, rounded to the nearest five minutes ('Twenty past three'). Pure client-side, ticks every 30 seconds.

  Sizes: xs sm md lg · Tier: Local

Calendar

• Calendar, Day · calendar_day

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  Today's agenda Reads from feeds configured in Plugins → Calendar Feeds; each feed's colour drives the stripe / marker / fill colour.

  Sizes: xs sm md lg · Tier: -

• Calendar, Month · calendar_month

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  Month-grid view Reads from feeds configured in Plugins → Calendar Feeds; each feed's colour drives the bar / dot / stripe colour.

  Sizes: md lg · Tier: -

• Calendar, Week · calendar_week

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  Seven-day strip Each event's colour comes from its feed (Plugins → Calendar Feeds).

  Sizes: sm md lg · Tier: -

News & feeds

• News, Hacker News · news_hacker_news

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  Top / new / best / show / ask stories from Hacker News. Uses the free Firebase API (no auth, no key). Click-through opens the story; the lightbox doesn't apply.

  Sizes: sm md lg · Tier: -

• News, Reddit · news_reddit

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  Top posts from a subreddit using the free .json endpoint (no API key, no OAuth). Pick the subreddit and time window per cell.

  Sizes: sm md lg · Tier: -

• News, RSS / Atom · news_rss

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  Latest N headlines from any RSS 2.0 or Atom 1.0 feed. Paste a feed URL; the widget parses both formats with the stdlib XML parser (no extra deps).

  Sizes: sm md lg · Tier: -

• News, Wikipedia On This Day · news_wikipedia_otd

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  Wikipedia 'On this day', featured historical events for today's date. Uses the free Wikimedia REST API (no key).

  Sizes: sm md lg · Tier: -

Home Assistant

• Home Assistant, Batteries · ha_battery

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  Auto-discovered battery levels across every Home Assistant entity with device_class=battery, sorted lowest-first. Picks up phones, sensors, vacuums, remotes, anything HA already exposes as a battery, and flags low/critical against per-cell thresholds.

  Sizes: sm md lg · Tier: Local

• Home Assistant, Camera · ha_camera

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  Snapshot from one or more Home Assistant camera.* entities. Pulls each entity's entity_picture via HA's REST API and renders it as a still frame, perfect for a door cam, garden cam, or 2×2 grid of indoor cameras on an e-ink display. Multi-camera grids auto-fit; every tile carries a corner timestamp chip and a motion pip when relevant.

  Sizes: sm md lg · Tier: -

• Home Assistant, Climate · ha_climate

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  One or more Home Assistant climate / thermostat entities Each entity tints by what the thermostat is doing right now (heating / cooling / idle). Requires the Home Assistant Core plugin.

  Sizes: sm md lg · Tier: -

• Home Assistant, Energy · ha_energy

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  Live solar / grid / battery / house-consumption snapshot from your HA energy dashboard, with today's totals and a 24-hour sparkline. Wires to the same sensor.* entities you've already configured under HA's Energy panel.

  Sizes: sm md lg · Tier: Local

• Home Assistant, Entities · ha_entities

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  A status grid of several Home Assistant entities. Each row tints by its state (on / off / other), leads with a device-class-aware Phosphor glyph (temperature → thermometer, CO₂ → wind, motion → person walking, …), and shows its current value. Rows that changed within the last 10 minutes pick up an accent-4 wash + a 'just now' / 'Nm ago' badge.

  Sizes: sm md lg · Tier: -

• Home Assistant, History · ha_history

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  A numeric Home Assistant sensor over time. Pairs the current value + trend arrow + min/max with a Chart.js line chart, optional threshold horizontal line, min/max marker dots + labels on the curve, and an averaged hourly-profile ghost overlay for long windows. Requires the Home Assistant Core plugin.

  Sizes: sm md lg · Tier: -

• Home Assistant, Lights · ha_lights

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  An at-a-glance overview of a room (or whole-house) set of light.* entities: which are on, how bright, what colour, and what share of the house is currently lit. Each row carries a brightness mini-bar tinted by the light's actual colour-temperature (warm-white to cool-white) or RGB hue, plus a swatch dot for the colour itself. Reads from your existing Home Assistant install via the Core plugin.

  Sizes: sm md lg · Tier: Local

• Home Assistant, Locks & Doors · ha_locks

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  A security-focused overview of every lock.* entity plus door / window / garage / opening binary_sensors. Stateful kind glyphs (ph-lock ↔ ph-lock-open, ph-door ↔ ph-door-open, etc.) communicate state via icon rather than text colour alone; unsecured rows wear a terracotta wash + an 'unsecured for Xm' timer chip. Auto-discovers entities, nothing to configure beyond the label and which kinds of openings to include.

  Sizes: sm md lg · Tier: Local

• Home Assistant, Media · ha_media

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  Now-playing tile for a Home Assistant media_player entity, title, artist, album, album art, progress bar with elapsed / remaining stamps, and a track-deterministic SVG waveform glyph. A blurred copy of the album art bleeds behind the body so the cell picks up the album's palette. Requires the Home Assistant Core plugin.

  Sizes: sm md lg · Tier: -

• Home Assistant, Sensor · ha_sensor

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  One or more Home Assistant entities as bold value blocks. A single entity fills the cell as a hero number with a trend arrow + 24h sparkline beneath; several lay out as a list with per-row trend + hairline sparkline. Lead glyph picks up the device-class (temperature → thermometer, CO₂ → wind, current → wave-sine, money → coin, etc.). Requires the Home Assistant Core plugin.

  Sizes: xs sm md lg · Tier: -

• Home Assistant, Todo · ha_todo

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  Items from a Home Assistant todo list, built-in shopping list, Google Tasks, Microsoft To-Do, CalDAV, anything exposed as a todo.* entity. Lead with the items needing action; show due dates when the integration sets them. Requires HA 2024.5+ (the todo.get_items service with return_response). Requires the Home Assistant Core plugin.

  Sizes: sm md lg · Tier: -

• Home Assistant, Zones · ha_zones

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  Who's home, who's away, auto-discovers every person.* entity in Home Assistant. Each row leads with the person's avatar (HA profile picture, or a coloured-initials circle keyed to their name when there's no picture) and right-aligns a zone-glyph (briefcase for work, graduation-cap for school, barbell for gym, etc.) + the zone label. One get_states call covers the whole household.

  Sizes: sm md lg · Tier: Local

Pictures

• Picture, NASA APOD · picture_apod

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  NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day, full bleed. Walks back day-by-day past video entries so the cell always shows an image. Uses DEMO_KEY by default; paste your own key at https://api.nasa.gov for a higher rate limit.

  Sizes: sm md lg · Tier: -

• Picture, Gallery · picture_gallery

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  Folder-based image rotation, full bleed. Manage folders + uploads at Plugins → Gallery. Supports internal folders (uploaded to the appliance) and external pointers to any directory on the host. Optional orientation filter + random or sequential rotation.

  Sizes: sm md lg · Tier: Local

Productivity

• Todo · todo

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  Persistent todo lists. Create lists and add items on the admin page (Plugins → Todo); the widget cell renders the chosen list as a read-only checklist. Completed items auto-prune after 24 hours so the list doesn't grow indefinitely.

  Sizes: xs sm md lg · Tier: Local

Web

• Webpage · webpage

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  Embed an external URL in a cell. The composer captures whatever the iframe renders, handy for status pages, public dashboards, or any site that doesn't deny embedding. Same headless-render path as the Send tab is used when the panel renders. Sites that set X-Frame-Options:DENY or strict CSP cannot be embedded.

  Sizes: sm md lg · Tier: -