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.
Music from that year
Matched to each photo. Skip or pause from your phone.
Weather and tides
A live tide wave, the next 12 hours and warnings.
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. A tablet or iPad you already have can be one too.
You'll need: stable Wi-Fi, and internet for weather and tide updates only.
Who's at the door
Ring a Nest doorbell and every Lantern shows who's there.
Your phone, in charge
See what's playing, skip a song or pause the music from the Hearth app.
Easy on the screen
Text drifts and swaps sides, and the screen goes dark at night.
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.
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.
One room. A Hearth and one Lantern.
Whole home. A Lantern in each room.
Archive and frame. We digitize your collection first.