An iOS companion app for a personal LED matrix desk display — a small 64×64 panel that sits on a desk and shows the things you would otherwise pick up your phone for.
The panel itself runs on a Raspberry Pi on your own home network. Pixi Panel is the iOS app that finds it, pairs with it once, and controls it: choosing which screens appear, adjusting brightness and sleep hours, sending it photos, tracking parcels, and reading back what it is currently displaying.
The panel can show the weather, the phase of the moon, a clock, sports scores, news headlines, a photo album, incoming parcels, and your day's calendar.
One of the panel's screens shows your agenda: what is on today, what is running right now, and what is coming in the next seven days.
To do that, Pixi Panel asks for read-only access to your Google Calendar
(calendar.readonly). It reads event titles, times and locations so the panel can
display them. It never creates, edits or deletes anything in your calendar, and it never asks
for write access.
Connecting a calendar is optional. The app works without it, and you can disconnect at any time from within the app or from your Google account settings.
Nowhere we can see. There is no Pixi Panel account and no server operated by us. The app talks to your panel across your own local network, and calendar access tokens are held by your panel on that network rather than by us. The privacy policy sets this out in full, and it is short.
Questions, bugs, or a panel behaving oddly: hello@garysylvester.co.