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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 :)

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[–] morethanevil@lemmy.fedifriends.social -3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How have you been powering it? Plugged in 24/7?

[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Good thinking. How do you keep the charge in that range? Software? Mechanical timer for the plug?

[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago
[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago

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.