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    radu022003
    last edited by Jul 20, 2018, 8:08 PM

    Hello, I have just starting using this module. I find it very useful and seems to work very good… as long as the pictures are copied on the SD card.
    My ideea is to use the pictures that are already on my NAS. I did tried to mount the NAS on the expected folder /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-RandomBackground/photos/. But the module seems not to be able to work with such a big amount of data, arround 30k files.
    I also observed that if i delete the pictures from “photos” folder the slideshow is keep running, which leads me to the Ideea that the module is loading the files in RAM or something similar, if it is so, that I can understand why is it not working with 30k files.
    Is there any option to use this module in my desired setup?

    thanks

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      A Former User @radu022003
      last edited by Jul 20, 2018, 9:06 PM

      @radu022003
      Well, maybe a little amount of pics loading on demands would be answer.
      My last MMM-GooglePhotos loads only one photo from Google Photos when it is needed.

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        kivlow @Guest
        last edited by kivlow Aug 2, 2018, 5:52 AM Aug 2, 2018, 5:48 AM

        Hello :]
        Im new to magic mirror - i want to make digital photo frame on my p3 and raspbian. So i use magicmirror but i not know how to make that MM see my photos i set imagepath to fotos but notching is displayed :[
        Ultimatum22 wrote somting about windows share but i dont know what to do :/
        Regards Kamil

        p.s. i try MMM-BackgroundSlideshow, MMM-ImageFileWatcher and MMM-ImageSlideshow all not show my pictures on local folder in magicmirror :/ what to do.

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          Mykle1 Project Sponsor Module Developer @kivlow
          last edited by Aug 3, 2018, 2:22 AM

          @kivlow

          Where MMM-ImageSlideshow is concerned, if your config entry looks like this . . .

          {
                      disabled: f,
                      module: 'MMM-ImageSlideshow',
                      position: 'middle_center',
                      config: {
                          imagePaths: ['modules/MMM-ImageSlideshow/images'],
                          slideshowSpeed: 10000,
                          fixedImageWidth: 800,
                          randomizeImageOrder: true,
                      }
                  },
          

          … then your image files belong in this directory

          modules/MMM-ImageSlideshow/images

          Create a working config
          How to add modules

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            sdetweil
            last edited by Aug 4, 2018, 1:25 PM

            For folders outside the MagicMirror directory tree, I use a link ( ln command) to my Nas server share

            The image showing modules are using the built-in web server for file access, and it’s root is ~/MagicMirror. And cannot see outside that folder tree.

            Sam

            How to add modules

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              elmattt
              last edited by elmattt Aug 21, 2018, 5:08 PM Aug 21, 2018, 4:54 PM

              hello,
              it doesn’t seem to work for me, install ok, but not pictures showed, only a loading text …
              i put 2 jpg pictures in a “photos” folder in the MMM-RandomBackground folder…
              does i need to name picture specifically ??

              EDIT : npm install… it’s ok :D

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