Badge App Requests

2025-08-16T15:40:08Z

Elsatch: Added a new request for badge: copyparty fileserver

== Please edit this page ==

'''Please edit this page to report which app you are dreaming of. Maybe some genious developer without ideas can pick this up.
'''
=== atmosphere and pressure stats/a "tricorder"===
* [4 people want this]
''' a app that shows the stats of the atmosphere, pressure, temperature, co2, air quality, orientation/gyro, possibly also attached external sensors, possibly also able to log to a text file on the SD card

remark from someone else: the badge has no proper CO2 sensor, I'd appreciate it if the app in question would not include eCO2/CO2eq, as [https://queer.party/@ao/111779978098588711 it's a completely made up number that differs significantly from the real number, in a non-correlating way]. It's very misleading, not showing it is better than showing a completely fake number.

=== MP4/Media player ===
* [3 people want this]
''' Pretty much as the title states. A media player app that will let me choose an mp4 file to play from a list of existing files. Some very rudimentary controls like play, pause, rewind, forward. Watching Shrek in style!'''

=== Badge stats ===
* [2 people want this]
'''I would love an app that shows how many badges have come online, same as what is visible on the [https://stats.why2025.org/d/568320c2-75ff-4278-8d89-42b9e18fa04b/why20253a-badgehub?orgId=1&from=now-6h&to=now&timezone=browser badge grafana dashboard]'''

=== Subreddit or something alike ===
* [1 people wants this]
'''Maybe somebody can start a subreddit (or something alike) so we can ask questions about the badge and exchange ideas?
'''

(^ to those interested in above: I found a very lightly advertised telegram group, [https://gitlab.com/why2025/team-badge/Hardware/ it's in the repo description in the badge's gitlab]: https://t.me/TeamBadgeWHY2025, can be moved to fulfilled if this is the intended place for the conversations among users to exist)

=== Battery check app ===
* [1 people wants this]
''' When you have a case it is hard to check how full the badge is. It would be nice to have a digital indicator of this

'''

=== LoRA chat app ===
* [33 people want this]
'''I would love to have an app that uses the LoRA module to chat with ppl around me
'''

=== SSH Client ===
* [29 people want this]
''' A SSH client that can be used for the badge, to connect to SSH servers. Making the badge a powerhouse of a remote-in device. Support for ed25519 keys would be much appreciated. '''

=== Web browser ===
* [4 people want this]
''' A basic web browser that can render (basic) HTML'''

=== WHY 2025 Design App ===
* [2 people want this]
'''A client for the awesome why2025 design/logo/nametag generator, see https://design.why2025.org/'''

=== WHY 2025 MQTT Client ===
* [4 people want this]
'''Something where you can fill in an mqtt topic and see the data from https://mqtt.why2025.org/'''

=== Home Assistant support ===
* [13 people want this]
'''It would be nice to use the badge in combination with Home Assistant. (Luxim is already planning to work on this, will update once a working prototype can be made public.) '''

=== PICO-8 Fantasy Console ===
* [3 people want this]
'''Run PICO-8 cartridges (https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php). Not quite sure if this is even possible or not, but it might be a cool idea :P'''

=== Retro-Go ===
* [6 people want this]
'''
Run e.g. Gameboy Color games:
https://github.com/ducalex/retro-go
'''

=== run meshtastic lora stuff ===
* [14 people want this]
'''Would love to see meshtastic (https://meshtastic.org) running on the badge. As App or separated firmware.''' see [[Project:Meshtastic on the WHY2025 badge]]

=== App Manager ===
* [12 people wants this]
'''Download and update Apps via WiFi from [https://badge.why2025.org/ BadgeHub] directly to SD card or delete them from the storage so we don't have to disassemble half of the badge or rebuild the firmware every time we want to get new apps.'''

=== Power Off App ===
* [1 people wants this]
'''Some casings make the on/off button hard to reach without a pen. It would be nice to have a shutdown command/app in the OS.'''

=== External Keyboard/Macro pad/Jiggler ===
* [1 people wants this]
'''If Badge is able to present as a USB HID device, app to allow it to be used to send keyboard codes to a connected computer, send definable macros using the action buttons, a mode to send occasional scroll locks or other keystrokes to keep a host computer awake, perhaps even send mouse inputs somehow, so badge can be used as a handy input device'''

=== Fileserver via CopyParty ===
* [1 people wants this]
'''It would be great to execute the CopyParty FOSS project to execute a local fileserver so that the badge could host and serve files over CIFS / SSH / HTTP. According to the project description, it's a single python file with no deps, but I am not sure if it will run over the micropython environment. Extended information available over [https://github.com/9001/copyparty CopyParty Github repo]

== Fulfilled requests ==
=== Name Tag app ===
* Fulfilled with: https://badge.why2025.org/page/project/why2025_namebadge
'''A simple app to set text you want shown on the badge, preferably it will remember the text. Bonus to flip the screen orientation and text formatting.'''

=== WiFi Settings App ===
* [10 people want this]
'''Control your Wireless lan settings at home'''

Status: Done.

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2025-08-16T15:28:18Z

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