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tesserae

E-ink dashboard companion. Compose dashboards in a browser, render server-side, and push to e-ink panels over REST or MQTT.

  • Completely free
  • Open source
  • No account

Overview

Features described in its GitHub repository and on its official website: self-hosting on your own server.

Services and protocols mentioned: MQTT and Home Assistant.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

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At a glance

All of tesserae is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (AGPL-3.0) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Plans and conditions

  • The publisher also offers paid plans (hosting, support or services); they are described on its website.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • No account needed
  • Commercial use allowed

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms) (limits, commercial use) —
  • Facts collected from GitHub (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use) —
  • Last technical check: 7 November 2026
  • Description from github.com — Dépôt GitHub dmellok/tesserae (AGPL-3.0-only)

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