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.

    • fleem@piefed.zeromedia.vipEnglish
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      2 months ago

      i will check this out but also figured id mention immich kiosk! apologies for no link; old stoned guy

      EDIT wow this is intense!

    • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I built one a long time ago when the project first started. It hangs in my hallway. It’s actually a very useful project, and with tinkering, it can display a lot of pertinent data.

  • swicano@programming.devEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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.

    Edit. Oh I didn’t see you wanted very large like 16 inch, I think big eink panels are outrageously expensive still