And finally, I wanted to be able to control it manually when desired. I also wanted it to autostart so that when it powers up it goes directly into the slideshow without any action from me (again - no keyboard and mouse). It's actually quite easy - I just had to figure out why the various approaches weren't working for me.
Using picframe for 2x2 picture how to#
With a disturbing amount of research I found out how to do it. I wanted a way to safely turn it on and off without a keyboard and mouse (just pulling the power on a Raspberry Pi can corrupt the operating system). I wanted to configure it so the screen would not blank out after a set interval. I did however want a few minor things that aren't covered in that instructable. And that's basically what the above instructable offers - without any proprietary software etc. I'll just put my pics on the thumb drive and it should display them. I don't want or need to control it from 1000 miles away, don't need to email it pictures, etc. I wanted a simple digital frame that would simply run through the images on a USB thumb drive. In the end I found this excellent instructable and based my project on it. In some cases you have to buy software that others wrote, and I kind of didn't want to do that. Unfortunately, most of them were really not quite what I wanted. So I did the normal Googling and found that there were a bunch of options for making a digital picture frame based on the Raspberry Pi. I've been playing with Arduinos for years, and have wanted a good project for the Raspberry Pi, and this seemed like the perfect one.
Obviously I could've just bought a new one, but I figured that's exactly what the man wants me to do! Instead, I could spend a ridiculous amount of time building my own - but also having some fun and learning something along the way. I figured they'd be practically free by now. I looked for a replacement on-line, and found that a comparable replacement actually cost more than my 10 year old frame.
After 10 years, my store-bought digital picture frame failed.
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