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.
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, or an iPad, 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.
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.
One room. A Hearth and one Lantern.
Whole home. A Lantern in each room.
Archive and frame. We digitize your collection first.