Submitted 10 hours ago by 1stQ@feddit.org to selfhosted@lemmy.world
I hope this is the right place to ask this.
Has anyone made a digital photo frame from a monitor or TV and a raspberry pi or something like that?
Regular picture frames are relatively small or expensive (sizes over 16"). So I’m thinking about making my own. I have zero practical experience with raspberrys.
I love the idea of sending new images via network without the hassle of changing sd cards. And without the dreaded cloud.
Get one of these Eink frames from waveshare. I have an older version without wifi, so i have to run a python script to e-inkify images on my laptop, copy to the SD card, put it into the frame, but the linked one doesn’t need that.
Since pi zero 2w is just a linux box, you can ssh into from remote and add/remove images from the folder that the screen shuffles through. Heck you could set up an cron job for the pi to hop onto your network and sync a folder on the nas.
And you can ignore the AI thing on this if you want, it’s a neat side thing, not integrated to the display functionality code.
Should be trivial to set up something like that if you’ve got parts you want to work with. Any desktop with an automatic background switcher should be able to cycle through images in a directory you specify on a timer. Set up your favorite remote access software (SSH, Samba, NFS …) and you’re done. If you want more control over the behavior, you could script up something custom with a little more effort – but it’s still not particularly hard to implement something like that.
Watch out for burn in on the screen if you’re leaving it on all the time.
TrippyHippyDan@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
magicmirror.builders Dose a lot more than just a picture frame, but you can connect it to immich!
fleem@piefed.zeromedia.vip 8 hours ago
i will check this out but also figured id mention immich kiosk! apologies for no link; old stoned guy
TrippyHippyDan@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Yeah it’s a cool tool 😁