Inkplate 6

Board
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Flash this board — 1 firmware option · Known good
Inkplate 6 pinout
Pinout

Specifications

Radiosinherited from ESP32

Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi 4 · 2.4 GHz
Bluetooth LE
BLE 4.2
Bluetooth Classic
yes
802.15.4
no

USB

Native USB
no
Connector
usb-c

Board

Form factor
inkplate
Dimensions
144.5 × 107.8 × 10 mm
Battery connector
yes
Charging
yes

Display & extras

Display
6in 800x600 greyscale E-Ink
Extras
e-inksd-cardrtc
Built onInkplate 6 BoardESP32 SoC

An ESP32 board driving a 6in 800x600 greyscale e-paper panel, with a microSD reader, RTC, USB-C, and battery-powered/charging operation — Arduino (Adafruit GFX) and MicroPython compatible.

Firmware for this board

Known good

  • ESPHomeKnown goodhomeweb flasher
    Flash ESPHomeweb flasherknown-good

    Known good esp-atlas asserts this board↔firmware link at the shown trust tier — it does not guarantee your specific unit or the current firmware version. Flashing can erase keys/config and can brick the device. At your own risk.

Notes

  • 25 uA sleep-state current
  • RTC is a PCF85063A with its own battery holder
  • Official BOM lists a plain ESP32-WROVER module (4 MB flash, 8 MB PSRAM per Espressif's ESP32-WROVER datasheet), needed for the grayscale framebuffer
  • io.gpio_free=0 DERIVED, not quoted (SPEC-io-power.md §5.3). Vendor free-GPIO page table marks zero native ESP32-WROVER pins FREE: IO12/13/14 go to the microSD bus, IO15/34/39 are jumper-gated, IO35 reads V_BAT, IO36 is the wakeup button, and TXD/RXD go to the CH340 bridge. Only expander-1 pins P1-3..P1-7 and all of expander 2 (21 pins on a separate I2C GPIO-expander chip) are free, excluded here as non-native SoC pads. No esp32 reserved_pins subtraction applies since the native free set is already empty.

Verify my board

Reads the connected chip over USB and checks it against what esp-atlas cites for Inkplate 6 — over Web Serial, no backend, nothing leaves your browser.

In-browser verify needs Web Serial: Chrome or Edge on a desktop. Safari, Firefox and phones cannot do it.

Serial monitor

Not connected.