MMM-ImagesPhotos

doesn’t have a path property it is hard coded to ‘uploads’

‘fullscreen-under’

fullscreen_below

if it was under, then MM should have put out a message with ‘unknown position’ in the startup messages and that module will not be loaded

So I changed to MMM-ImagesPhotos. Had a problem with it to start with where it did not display anything. I am running it is ‘fullscreen-under’ it presents smaller format pictures in their actual size instead of enlarging them to full screen and cutting off heads. The problem with no pictures was when I set the path to the ‘uploads’ directory in config.js the system concatenated the string three times and could not find the path, I wonder why? :) I found that problem by going back into the logs to find the error in the module setup. I went back into config.js and deleted my entry for the path and left it with an empty string “”. Then all my pictures popped up like they were supposed to.

Yes, Sam, I had to manually go into the config.js because MMM-Config/configure would not reset it when I cleared the entry on the form.

I am really happy with MMM-ImagesPhotos. I was going to suggest putting an option to display the file name on the picture but I got around it by annotating the pics with names for family that has not met those in the pics. It worked much better than depending on the file name.

  {
    module: "MMM-ImagesPhotos",
    position: "fullscreen_below",
    config: {
     opacity: 0.9,
     animationSpeed: 5000,
     updateInterval: 15000,
     backgroundColor: 'grey',  // not used if fill is true
     fill: true,   // fill around image with blurred copy of image
	   blur: 10,   // only used if fill is true
     sequential: false  // process the image list randomly
     }
  },
  {
    module: "MMM-Carousel",
    config: {
      transitionInterval: 10000,
      showPageIndicators: true,
      showPageControls: false,
      ignoreModules: ["alert", "updatenotification"],
      mode: "slides",
      slides: [
        ["clock", "weather", "calendar"],
        ["MMM-ImagesPhotos"]
     ],
    }
  },

I use pages, and images position:fullscreen_below

I spent a lot of time on MMM-ImagesPhotos to keep the the photo aspect ratio, and all the picture on screen.