Dropbox, Google Drive etc) or even your own home filesystem or FTP server with your own authentication. Some of its extra features are a flag to show progress of the copying, verification, and a very seamless process to connect to external cloud accounts (e.g. Rclone is another gem, its basically a fancy scp or rsync. You can learn more about feh in the Archwiki or man feh. I now use feh to play with my “desktop” background and to look at pictures (locally or remote). I discovered it when I started using i3wm as part of the suite of command-line productivity tools that usually get recommended for it. I recommend playing with feh a little, as it’s truly a poweful tool. The fehFrame relies on the Linux command-line picture viewer feh to display images located in a specific folder as a slideshow. The only thing needed to put this together was a couple of open source projects and writing a few commands, introduced below. Two websites with movie stills are FilmGrab and Stills database. wanted to use the same screen as a slideshow of movie stills. It actually works with anything that can run Linux and connect to a screen. Depending on your hardware you may need different cables so I’ll keep this purposefully vague. This works with any Pi you may have lying around and any screen. a cable to connect the screen to the Pi.a RaspberryPi (connected to the Internet). The original hardware was put together by my flatmate A., who doesn’t own a tablet, but needed a device to read large format illustrated books on. Setting this up I did encounter some hiccups and errors but I learned some things in the process so I thought I’d document it here and share the “code” (which is truly and embarrasingly short).Ĭontinue reading for the full saga of errors and troubleshooting steps or feel free to skip straight to the Instructions. Just drawing some cables and running some commands. This takes moments to setup and only uses Linux utilities. There are many alternatives and extra functionalities one can achieve, but they seemed to be quite complicated and/or use a lot of unnecessary code. Many such projects exist but as far as I have looked this is the simplest. The fehFrame yet another open-source digital picture frame.
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