Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
MM as rolling picture frame
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I have tons of photographs and I want to make ultra simple MM that just randomly (or not) to cycle through through all the photos and just curious as to the good, the bad and the ugly as to which module(s) do that best.
Trying to avoid randomly choosing a module that sounds like it will fit my needs only to find out I chose poorly and have to redo the configuration.
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@ankonaskiff17 I use MMM-ImagesPhotos for this…
I added some features for centering and filling …
I link to my file server to get the pics
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@sdetweil I did a search and drew a blank on module you describe MMM-ImagesPhotos. I’ll poke around with some of the others.
Since my knowledge of servers is minimal at best from hardware side required I sort of understand that but I’ve never set about to create a server I’ll have to figure that out.
I have several jumbo external hard drives and SSD drives and I was just going to plug one of them into an open USB socket on the Pi.Side subject but maybe good use for the lone Raspberry Pi 1? I tried to use it (Pi 1) for a Pi-Hole I just built but was something that was incompatible so it went back on the shelf
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@ankonaskiff17 here is my fork
https://github.com/sdetweil/MMM-ImagesPhotos
I always search
GitHub module-name
and never have trouble finding thingsit uses a naned folder. uploads, and you can link that anywhere
on Linux the link command is ln
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@ankonaskiff17 I have an older HP desktop that runs as a server, running Ubuntu Linux
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@sdetweil LOOL You’ve got the secret MMM stash.
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@sdetweil Also, good point to be aware of is that Github may have modules too.
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I use MMM-BackgroundSlideshow for this. I like that it can display picture info. It also has the ability to move forward and back through the pictures, although it seems to have a problem with that in the latest version. I use it to randomly access thousand of images across many folders.
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@ankonaskiff17 the module I referenced came from GitHub, I made a fork (linked copy), says so right under mine if you look.
I wanted more features. so I added them.
the original has not been updated in a long time.I don’t have experience with any others. I was just talking about 1. you are welcome to ignore anything I say.
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@sdetweil I take advice anywhere I can find it. I just meant that I don’t need to just search on the MM 3rd Party module page that Github is also fertile ground.
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@ankonaskiff17 yes, 3rd party modules are on GitHub… it’s just another list
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@MMRIZE I know all about 3rd party modules, some of which are well built, some others, not so much.
Just reaching out to people who may have already done same sort of project to avoid picking one of the not so good modules.Kind of like Amazon, I don’t want to find 3 pieces of inferior product before stumbling on the quality module.
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I see it’s been a while since you’ve posted, but I just wanted to ask if anyone has managed to mix in random folder sorting like “shuffle” for photos instead of date order. Also curious if newer versions of the MMM-BackgroundSlideshow module handle transitions better—mine sometimes skips or freezes with larger image sets. Would love to hear how others have fine-tuned theirs lately.
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@Inferhide I use MMM-ImagesPhotos and don’t see those issued
What is a large image set?
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Posting pictures on MM was something I am doing also. I’m using sdetweil
MMM-ImagesPhotos from third party modules. It was easy to setup and works well. You have to store your images in a local directory inside the module. It has several options available which I have not looked into yet. Just set it up yesterday. -
@RonR the local folder can be linked(see the ln command) to a share mounted from another server source(in /etc/fstab)
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make the mount point
sudo mkdir /media/fileserverin fstab, change username and password to the server folder
and the path to the server , this is my synology NAS//192.168.2.32/media//192.168.2.32/media /media/fileserver cifs username=xxxxx,password=yyyyyyyy,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777before reboot
sudo mount -anow
ls /media/fileservershould show files
on reboot it will auto mount
now in the MMM-ImagesPhotos folder, move the uploads folder out of the way
mv uploads o-uploadsnow link the mount point there
sudo ln -s /media/fileserver uploadsnow
ls uploadsshould show the files from the server
the ln command could link a subdirectory of the mount point tooin the MMM-ImagePhotos folder
ls -laFshould show
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I use MMM-BackgroundSlideshow to display random paintings from over 200 images. It seems to work pretty well.
All of the paintings are stored locally on the Pi, in a subdirectory of the module directory: ~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-BackgroundSlideshow/Paintings
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@UncleRoger you could move them to a server too
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