MM as rolling picture frame

ankonaskiff17

@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.

Inferhide

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.

sdetweil

@Inferhide I use MMM-ImagesPhotos and don’t see those issued

What is a large image set?

RonR

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.

sdetweil

@RonR the local folder can be linked(see the ln command) to a share mounted from another server source(in /etc/fstab)

sdetweil

@RonR

make the mount point

sudo mkdir /media/fileserver

in 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=0777

before reboot

sudo mount -a

now

ls /media/fileserver

should 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-uploads

now link the mount point there

sudo ln -s  /media/fileserver uploads

now

ls uploads

should show the files from the server
the ln command could link a subdirectory of the mount point too

in the MMM-ImagePhotos folder

ls -laF

should show

uploads --> /media/fileserver

UncleRoger

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

sdetweil

@UncleRoger you could move them to a server too

BKeyport

here’s how I did it.

Set up SAMBA on the pi, and include a mapping to your photos drive (I wouldn’t recommend keeping them locally)
magic mirror’s config, using MMM-Backgroundslideshow

/* Magic Mirror Config by Brendan Keyport. */
/* Office - Certificate Display */
var config = {
	address: "0.0.0.0",
	port: 8082,  // port is 8082 as I use a server/client style setup. 
	ipWhitelist: [], 
	language: "en",
	timeFormat: 12,
	units: "imperial",
	//logLevel: ["INFO", "LOG", "WARN", "ERROR", "DEBUG"],
	customCss: "css/custom3.css",
	modules:
	 [
		{
    		module: 'MMM-BackgroundSlideshow',
    		position: 'fullscreen_below',
    		config: {
      			imagePaths: ['<path to shared folder>'],
      			transitionImages: true,
      			randomizeImageOrder: true,
      			showAllImagesBeforeRestart: true,
      			//transitionSpeed: 0,
      			gradient: [0],
      			horizontalGradient: [0],
      			backgroundSize: "contain"
  			 }
  		}
/*************** DO NOT EDIT BELOW ***************/
	]
};

if (typeof module !== "undefined") {
	module.exports = config;
}

Easy as Pi.