Image Galery

fragator

@Jeff
Yes, I just do it at the moment, always the same image size.

Ultimatum22

This is exactly what I am currently developing, loading random photos from a directory. For my personal use I want additional info about the photo, which I have done by using subdirectories. Last directory is the name who took the photo, the rest is the ‘album’.

For example folder structure:
photos\Vacation\Cuba - 2013\Dave
photos\Vacation\Cuba - 2013\Erik
photos\Vacation\Egypt - 2012\Dave

This displays Vacation\Cuba - 2013 as album and Dave as person who took the photo. I am also trying to get the timestamp from the photo but not sure it works yet. I am going to make it an option to show extra photo information.

Anybody still interested? I can do an early release in the near future.

fragator

Yes of course. And thank you in advance for sharing.

Woody

@Ultimatum22
Hi, that’s what I’m looking for. I’m highly interested on your module. Good speed - I’m looking forward to try it within my installation.

Mephiston2K

I would love to see a simple offline(or network share) image gallery. Thank you for your effort!

Ultimatum22

Next week I have some time to work on this,I’ll post a link to the repo here. If you have any request about features post them here for now,will make my own topic in the future.

Mephiston2K

@Ultimatum22

Take all the time you need, since this is you doing all the work.
I am no good in coding although I learned some coding years ago I feel a bit ashamed I don’t contribute (well I found a Bug in MM 1 once and was happy to give Michael the hint).

I call it ideas - not requests because I am grateful for anything:

I would love to see an option to configure when the picture will change. Not based on the uptime of the mirror + x seconds.
More like based on the clock[daily, full hour, every x minute, every x seconds],
Probably even a scheduler for different folders/albums (ie. weekdays folder/album A , weekends folder/album B )

option to scale

option to include/exclude subfolders

I don’t know how this is handled but pre buffering the images would probably be a good idea due to the use of network shares.
Imagine your mirror would always access your NAS(my mirror is an always on device) the drives of the NAS won’t go into sleep mode.
A regular wipe of the buffer would be required so your mirror won’t run into memory problems.
therefore an option to configure buffer size and/or a configurable time to wipe the buffer

a local fallback folder(probably a standard subfolder of the module) when other sources are offline.

option to configure different animations how the pictures change

Again, these a just ideas, not requests!
I hope I will have some time around christmas to upgrade to MM2 - there are so many nice modules around and I know yours will be one of my favs.

Regards & happy coding

Mephi

mikenewhouse

@Jeff
Sorry been out of the loop for a couple weeks - No does not have to be flickr was just using that on another digital sign.
I will give this a shot, thanks for the head up.
I really want the pictures to take up the whole screen or at least a large section of the middle. I have not figured that out either.
Again, Thanks

mikenewhouse

@Ultimatum22
As Mephiston2K stated, just idea’s and thanks in advance.
It looks like we have two different type of requests going.

Local images
Cloud based images

I personally am looking for cloud based as I am building some of these Mirrors for relatives and we want to show pictures of the family and such. Adding photos when we can so the grand parents can see updated pictures.

I would like the pictures to consume most of the mirror or at least a large portion of the center, I guess adjustable image size would be the holy grail.

Best wishes,
Mike

Jeff

I trying to get shadows around the picture to get a smooth overlay from the picture to the mirrors backround.
I’m not sure how to do this. The only way I know, i to change the original picture e.g. on instagram and put a black shadow overlay around. But I’m not really happy with this solution.
Maybe someone knows better…

@Mephiston2K said in Image Galery:

@Ultimatum22
would love to see an option to configure when the picture will change. Not based on the uptime of the mirror + x seconds.
More like based on the clock[daily, full hour, every x minute, every x seconds],

for this you could use the module where the modules on the mirror are changed by time.
Just copy this image module, so you have image module one and two… then set the time.

I know, not a clean way to do it, but at least it should work.