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I appreciate the thoughtfulness. I'm not dead set on self hosting - I figured that the relatively simple functionality might already exist in some tools. The client side of the solution would involve no interaction which is why I considered the self hosting route. If the server goes down, as long is it continues to display the time/date/last know notes/messages without any intervention then it would meet our needs. A dashboard tool that runs some elements independently and queries a server for updates on occasion.
I did find MagicMirror, which looks like it could be set up with an SBC connected to a monitor. I haven't yet had time to dig in to its workings to see if would meet the offline/online requirements.
I also found calendarclock.app which, while not self hosted, is purpose built for this scenario and would allow the recycling of existing hardware.
So long as you understand and accept the risks - that's your call. Glad you're thinking things through.
That calendarclock looks promising actually. One of the things I was going to suggest was some sort of "client monitoring" to ensure that the screen has been updated so that it doesn't display old events which would be very confusing to somebody struggling with a sense of time. And their admin app seems to provide you with a "last updated" time which you could check to see if it's working. Hopefully there could be some alarms/notifications if it hasn't updated recently?
Either way - I hope the person you intend this for is doing well. As well as those caregiving.