Display a .png saved on the raspberry pi hard drive

Mykle1

@ninjabreadman said in Display a .png saved on the raspberry pi hard drive:

if you’re really only interested in showing a single image, it may be simpler to use MMM-SimpleLogo:

Yes, simpler to use SimpleLogo. (A fantastic module)

But, easier to use EasyPix. :-)

doubleT

Or without a module in custom.css:

.region.middle.center:before { /* just an example, try with an empty region */
    content: url(../modules/test_png.png);
}

Though quick, it’s not a very clean solution and could mess up modules in the same region. With some CSS knowledge you could make something like a logo appear fixed to a corner of the mirror or something like that.

snowman

@yawns Thanks! This worked for me! I have a new png being generated every 15 minutes in a crontab, however I’m not sure how to make this module update the image every so often. Do you know how I might be able to accomplish this? Thanks in advance!

cruunnerr

afaik this isn’t possible with Easy-Pix. (please correct me)

But maybe u give MMM-ImagesPhotos a try. With that u can set an update interval. Just put your only Photo in the directory

ninjabreadman

@snowman @cruunnerr You’re right. It is however baked into MMM-SimpleLogo. There is a time stamp query parameter appended to the image, so that it fetches a new version every time and does not load the cached version. Also, it has a refreshInterval config parameter to set how often it updates (e.g. "5*60*1000" for 5 minutes).