Bought a TRMNL to act as a read-only SMS client for my 7yo, but it only refreshes every 15m, which is a bummer. 

Anyone know how to coerce faster refresh?

Anyone know of an alternative with more frequent refresh?

Anyone know how to jailbreak them?

Added image support with s3 in about an hour. It’s never been more fun to build software

It’s a cheap hack. They let you run multiple apps on a playlist, and the device updates every 5 minutes to show a new app. 

So by timing the updates of each app correctly (each one every 15 minutes) you can get an update every five minutes. 

But they have to be three separate apps or else it just shows the same stale data every 5 minutes

https://farcaster.xyz/7858.eth/0xe80e04fd

Kinda

Also tried setting up a server to use instead of the TRMNL hosted server, but couldn’t get it working in a couple hours and I ran out of time to debug

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Did you figure out the 15m refresh rate? I've been oggling the frame since your post but 15m seems pretty egregious.

I think another option might be hosting your own server

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I spent 3ish hours trying to get this to work but couldn’t get the device and my BYOS API to talk

I think another option might be hosting your own server https://docs.usetrmnl.com/go/diy/byos