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Has anybody on here had an experiment with the supermarket tags?

My understanding is that you get a bunch of the tags, somehow get a base-station/transceiver working with them, and push data as images.

I'd love to hear from anyone who's had a go. I quite fancy having some little displays around the house with useful info for the room.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Hey, I developed some of these for a different use case at my job.

Generally they use BLE servers to query and update every BLE device one after the other.

I would venture to guess that these tags have a ublox BMD-3xx variant controlling them and you can connect via Bluetooth low energy every X hours.

If you just want the displays they use, here are some kits:

https://www.tinytronics.nl/nl/displays/e-ink

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

It's also quite common for updates to be sent using a ceiling-mounted infrared transmitter, like this brand which is common where I am:

https://www.pricer.com/products/devices/electronic-shelf-labels

People have figured out the data formatting to update some of the lower-security variants (including that "Pricer" brand):

http://furrtek.free.fr/index.php?a=esl