@Sean You are correct about ARM architecture, didn’t do my research properly. I did a quick search and it seems like a hazzle indeed. This seems to be a kind of solution, http://mitchtech.net/dropbox-on-raspberry-pi-via-sshfs/

I agree about the space but if you have a decent sdcard, like 32gb you can store plenty of photo’s and change them once in a while. I have set up a shared directory with samba to the photo directory directly. I just put my photo’s in here and restart the pi.

Would be nice if google photo’s introduces an api, I use it for photo backup at the moment.

@Sean There is a dropbox client for debian, if you use raspbian on your RPI this should work. I haven’t tested it but if you can get it to synchronize you can link to it from my module like yawns said.

@nobita I don’t want to store my photo’s on dropbox so I don’t have the need implement this option but my above solution should work.

@docmucki What is the value you use, because it is indeed in miliseconds as jfodor said.

@lignumaqua Can you post your configuration for my module? It should work full screen if you look at the default ‘fullscreen_below’.

How did you fix it? This could be helpful for other people in the future. For now only full screen background is supported, I might change this in the future.

Please show your config, I am assuming your either did something wrong there. Also how did you add this module? The folder and js file are wrong, should be MMM- before it.

Please post the part of the config file you have added for this module. Also did you look in the log and/or browser console? Without any info it’s near impossible to help.

Try this module: https://github.com/Ultimatum22/MMM-RandomBackground I developed it. Should meet your requirements.

Your welcome, good to hear it was what you are looking for. What do you mean with external source, like an usb stick? That isn’t that hard to implement. I am working on supporting multiple folders to read photo’s from, support for external source is then also done.

Good to hear. I did forgot I added some functionality that needed new packages.

Did you run npm install? Don’t think the packages have changed but just to be sure. Also the config you pasted is wrong, it’s missing a } at the end, is that just a copy paste error from your side?

How do you run MagicMirror, could you try display=:0 npm start dev from the terminal and see for console logs. My mirror works without errors with your config (when I add a } at the end).

Or go to :8080 in your browser, press F12 to open dev tools and check for errors.

Yeah the random generator isn’t that random with that few of images. Displaying them in order isn’t that difficult. I will add an option for this. Thank you for your feedback, I am working on the css atm.

I have added an option for displaying random photo’s or in order. Go to ~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-RandomBackground and do git pull. Then add this to your config, randomOrder: false, Set it to true for random order.

@zichao92 by using the browser, go to the ip address of your MM.

Glad you got it working. I might add imageSize in the future, was ment to be a fullscreen photo gallery tho. Does it hide all your modules or just some? It doesn’t hide any modules at my end. I do see that the other modules are very hard to read with the light colors, I am in the progres of customizing that on my mirror.

My bad, I just realized that the photoDirectories config is not yet implemented. It only reads photo’s from the photos directory in the module itself. You could make a soft link from your share to /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-RandomBackground/photos.

That looks good. Are you sure that the share is accesable? Try ls -al /nfs/MIRROR on the commandline of your mirror. Does it show any folders and/or photos?

You are installing from the wrong directory, the installer is looking for package.json in your modules folder. You should be in home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-RandomBackground/

I just noticed my readme is wrong, after git clone you have to execute cd MMM-RandomBackground.

See my module for displaying images, videos does not work with this module. https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/1178/random-background-from-local-folder

It only has a simple transition animation for now.

As request by some, first version of showing random full size background from a local folder.

[card:Ultimatum22/MMM-RandomBackground]

It will load a photo’s from a photo directory in ~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-RandomBackground, easiest way is by creating a Windows share. If somebody needs help with that let me know.

This still has a lot of improvements, I will update the readme with future implementations and a list of issues. If you see any please let me know.

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.

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.