Your day, on the kitchen wall.
Butler is a small home display that shows your family's upcoming calendar events, the weather, and the album art of whatever is playing — on a 64×64 LED matrix you hang where everyone can see it.
What it does
- Upcoming events. The next few things on your family calendar, one card at a time, colour-coded by how soon they are.
- Weather. The morning forecast for where you live.
- Now playing. Album art for the track currently playing on your Spotify account.
How it works
Butler runs on a Raspberry Pi in your home, driving the LED panel directly. It asks Google for your calendar every ten minutes, draws the next few events on the panel, and forgets them. There is no Butler server, no account to create, and nothing to sign up for — the software talks to Google from your own device, and the results never leave it.
What Butler asks Google for
One permission, read-only:
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar.readonly.
It reads the title, date, and time of your upcoming events so it can draw them on the panel. It cannot create, change, or delete anything on your calendar, and it never sends your calendar data anywhere. Full detail is in the privacy policy.
Who it's for
Butler is a personal project, built for a household that wanted the day's plans visible without picking up a phone. It's offered as-is for others who want to run the same thing at home — see the terms of service.
Contact
Questions, or want your data removed? Email hello@butler.ly.