Kitchen Kiosk

The day, on the kitchen wall.

Kitchen Kiosk is a wall display for one family's kitchen, and a companion app on the phone that runs it. The wall shows what the household needs at a glance: the calendar, everyone's chores, today's meals, and the family's notes.

What it does

Calendar

Each person's Google Calendar, on one wall, in that person's color. Read-only; more below.

Chores

A board with a column for each person, including chores that rotate week to week. Tap to check one off.

Meals

Today's meals, and the shopping list, from the household's recipe app.

Notes

Short family notes, checkable on the wall when they are dealt with.

The two apps

The kiosk is the display itself, built to run on a Raspberry Pi behind a panel on the wall. The companion is the phone app where the household manages what the wall cannot pull from elsewhere: chores, notes, the people on the board, and the display's settings. Both talk to one small backend that belongs to the household. It is a personal project run by an individual, not a company, and it is built for one family's use.

Google Calendar

Each person can connect their own Google Calendar from the companion app. Kitchen Kiosk asks Google for one permission, read-only access to your calendars (https://www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar.readonly), and nothing else. It can see your events. It cannot create, change, or delete anything in your Google account, and it does not receive your Google profile or contacts.

You choose which of your calendars appear on the wall, and whose calendar each one is about. The events from those calendars are copied to the household's own database so the wall can show them, and they are used for that and nothing else: never for ads, never sold, and never used to train any model. You can disconnect at any time from the companion app, which revokes the access with Google and deletes the copy.

The details are in the privacy policy.