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.
If you are still playing around with this project and haven’t heard of the pi3d project and picture frame, I highly recommend it for creating a digital picture frame. I’ve set this up originally with a pi4b but recently switched to a pi3b due to the power and heat production of the pi4. Runs smoothly at 1080p on the pi3b with very little heat output. Other than the slideshow transitions looking very good with this particular software, my favourite feature is the portrait pairs feature that displays two portrait photos at a time as part of the slide show so you don’t get huge letterboxes either side. Great set up and configuration guides at the link below and the GitHub I’ll link below that.
