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.