Hey everyone,
I'm currently using immich for my omagensercer and I love it very much. Now I wanted to revive an old tablet as a digital picture frame and I'm not sure how to best do this.
I want to frame to run a certain album on Immich in a (random) loop. My first idea was to use Immich's slideshow Features, yet those switch Images way too fast and I have found no way to customize the interval.
Another way would be to run the slideshow locally but I didn't find a way to Auto-Download images to a device when someone adds an imagemto an album.
So: how would you do this? Has anyone already done it?
Looking forward to your input :)
15 Comments
LufyCZ@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 2y
I'd probably suggest raising an issue on the Immich github as a feature request. You said that there's already a slideshow feature present, just without a customizable interval, should be easy (even if low priority probably) for the Immich guys to add.
vivadanang@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 2y
what is this?
mangaskahn@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
Image server mangled by autocorrect? Best I can come up with.
vivadanang@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y
that makes more sense!
Andi@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 2y
If the old tablet is Android, Fotoo is perfect. Yes it costs, but one off fee and worth it. Can pull from so many different sources.
Personally, I still use Google Photos. Both my wife and I have us, the kids and pets all autotagged into an album for all the pictures taken on our phones and Fotoo randomly shows these on the Nexus 7 tablet I have taped into a wooden frame.
cybersandwich@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Have not done it so far, but some day I want to. Here's an app that I think it would work well for the job:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=sk.mimac.slideshow
Diplomjodler@feddit.de · 1 pts · 2y
Looks Like something you could do with a pretty simple python script.
morethanevil@lemmy.fedifriends.social · -3 pts · 2y
Digital frames are cool at the beginning, but you will soon look at it as much as at normal frames.
Btt:
If you only want to have slideshow for one album, download it and use a gallery app for this, sure new pictures are not included automatically, that is the only downside. You could use a foldersync app for this. Push new pictures from the mobile phone to your server and download them on the tablet
PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 2y
I’ve had a tablet acting as a digital picture frame for a long time now and I always like to stop by and see pictures of our travels and stuff. For us at least it’s still cool. When it fails I’ll get another one.
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 2y
Yep.
I'm surprised how much I look at ours. It's changed how we take photos.
Now we're more intentional to try to document trips and events more explicitly and clearly. The photo serves as a memory-reminder.
If you're younger, no one probably told you that you will forget stuff. Not in a bad way, just that seeing a pic from an event will remind you of other memories that you hadn't thought about in forever. It's like the memories are stale and a random pic refreshes them.
Mine turns on at 7am and off at 10 pm, rotates through photos randomly. I can send pics to it through wifi of Bluetooth (real convenient for phones).
bartolomeo@suppo.fi · 2 pts · 2y
How have you been powering it? Plugged in 24/7?
PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 2y
Yep plugged in 24/7. The tablet is rooted and running a custom rom and I’ve set the battery charging rules so that it maintains charge from 50-80%.
bartolomeo@suppo.fi · 1 pts · 2y
Good thinking. How do you keep the charge in that range? Software? Mechanical timer for the plug?
PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 2y
I use this app to control and keep the charge within that range:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rhs.ccontrol&hl=en_CA&gl=US#
Showroom7561@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 2y
I disagree. We've had several frames for years and love looking at them, seeing new photos get added by family, and be reminded of our fondest memories.
Personally, I find that larger, wall mounted frames are much more enjoyable to look at compared to small, tabletop ones.