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?
So I’ve been working on a setup myself. I actually haven’t considered immich but I should. I was just going to do a simple js based webpage local server that auto boots chromium into kiosk mode and randomly switches pictures. I actually had it set up so it weights new photos more heavily so it shows new additions more frequently.
The way I got new photos in was a nextcloud webdav mount. That way my wife and I can just add photos to a folder from our phones and they show up on the frame. I saw a guide online on how to do that with Google Drive too.
So all that to say, that might be an option for you to get photos to a folder. Then maybe point immich to that folder as a source.
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
Digital frames are cool at the beginning, but you will soon look at it as much as at normal frames.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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So I’ve been working on a setup myself. I actually haven’t considered immich but I should. I was just going to do a simple js based webpage local server that auto boots chromium into kiosk mode and randomly switches pictures. I actually had it set up so it weights new photos more heavily so it shows new additions more frequently.
The way I got new photos in was a nextcloud webdav mount. That way my wife and I can just add photos to a folder from our phones and they show up on the frame. I saw a guide online on how to do that with Google Drive too.
So all that to say, that might be an option for you to get photos to a folder. Then maybe point immich to that folder as a source.
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
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.
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.
How have you been powering it? Plugged in 24/7?
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%.
Good thinking. How do you keep the charge in that range? Software? Mechanical timer for the plug?
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#
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).
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.
Looks Like something you could do with a pretty simple python script.
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.
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
what is this?
Image server mangled by autocorrect? Best I can come up with.
that makes more sense!