I’m after some guidance on how to use my Pi to make a digtal photo frame. I have a raspberry Pi 5 and a spare 21 inch monitor to work with. I’ve looked at a number of of photo frame projects/guides online but they all seem to take a very different approach and are rather confusing (to me as a relative newbie).
My preferences for how this should work are as follows:
I don’t mind what software is used as long as it fulfils the desired outcome;
The photo frame should display photos from a particular folder on the storage medium attached to the Pi (i.e. no cloud integration);
The folder containing the photos should be accessible from other computers on my local network for the purpose of adding photos to the folder as desired;
Although the photo frame will obviously have a screen, I’d like to be able to perform all maintenance from another computer (ssh?);
OK, I’ve been following the guide and no issues up to installing fbi. I then created a folder in which to put my photos and this is when things get complicated. I was unable to tansfer and files using the suggested command - scp C:/Users/username/OneDrive/Pictures/wallpapers/* pi@192.168.1.21:/home/pi/pictures - and in any case I want to be able to drag/drop or copy/paste my photos from my Windows PC using file explorer. So I tried to create a shared folder on the Pi using this guide:
I’m out of my depth here though. Where in the smb.conf file does “wins support = yes” go? I put it in straight after “workgroup = WORKGROUP” but I don’t know if that’s correct. In any case, I’m not seeing my shared folder in file explorer.
