What it shows, and plays
Today, over the years
This date in every past year, then the month.
Just in
Today's phone photos, within minutes, at home or away.
Music from that year
Matched to each photo. Skip or pause from your phone.
Weather, tides and sky
A live tide wave by the sea, the sun and moon inland, the next 12 hours and warnings.
Coming up
The family calendar's next two appointments, under the clock.
What's in the photo
Its tags under the date, like a town or "Fourth of July".
Two at once
Two photos side by side, or a slow Ken Burns drift, chosen for each screen.
An album for the day
A birthday or a trip on every Lantern, until tomorrow.
The system
The Hearth is a small server in your home. It keeps your whole library on mirrored drives, picks each day's photos for every Lantern, and files the family's phone photos by date.
The Lanterns are the screens around the house. When nobody's using one, it becomes the day's slideshow. An Android or Fire tablet, an iPad, or a Facebook Portal you already have can be one too. A Windows tablet or PC can show the photos as well, on request.
You'll need: stable Wi-Fi, and internet for weather and tide updates only.
Hearth
Who's at the door
Ring a Nest doorbell and every Lantern shows who's there.
Your phone, in charge
Skip or pause the music, set the photo time, music and night hours, and see that every phone is still backing up, from the Hearth app.
Easy on the screen
It picks up where it left off, text drifts and swaps sides, and the screen goes dark at night.
Home movies on the TV
If you like, the family's videos play on your TVs with a free app, kept and backed up with the photos.
Everyone's photos, in everyone's app
Each person sees the whole family archive in the Immich app on their phone, and names, captions and albums are kept with the photos.
Backed up three ways
Mirrored drives, USB copies kept away from the house, and an optional encrypted off-site backup that ransomware can't wipe. The Hearth watches each drive's health and age.
Private by design
Stored in your house
Photos and music live on your own server, not in anyone's cloud. Only an optional backup leaves, encrypted.
Closed to the internet
Nothing in your home is opened to the internet. The Hearth answers only your own devices, and phones away from home reach it over their own private connection.
Online for the forecast
It fetches weather and tides, sending only your town's location.
Fully documented
A guide for the family, and step-by-step guides for every part, to run it yourself.
Or supported by us
An optional service contract, and help collecting logs from your phone if something's not right.
Help only when you ask
With a contract, you can let us check the Hearth's health from our studio for a day: diagnostics only, never your photos or music, and you see who looked.
A service contract
Your Hearth runs on its own and comes with a guide to everything. A service contract adds us, for a year at a time.
Updates put in for you
We check each security and app update on our own Hearths first. With a contract, the ones we've approved go in on yours without you lifting a finger.
Help when you ask
Turn on remote help from the Hearth app and we look at its health from our studio for a day: diagnostics only, never your photos or music.
A yearly check
Drives, backups and a test restore, so you know your photos could come back if they ever had to.
A person to call
Our studios in Sammamish and Depoe Bay, for questions about the Hearth, the Lanterns or the phones.
One room. A Hearth and one Lantern.
Whole home. A Lantern in each room.
Archive and frame. We digitize your collection first.