Digital Picture Frame Finished!

Forum: User Feedback
Topic: Digital Picture Frame Finished!
started by: bsparks

Posted by bsparks on Sep. 28 2005,19:25

Hi there, all! I just wanted to post to thank everyone that helped me with my digital picture frame project and to officially same that it is finished.

It's an old Toshiba 2595CDT running on a wireless network and a 512mb Kingston CF drive with a CF to IDE adapter. It's using an Orinoco 802.11b gold card with 128-bit encryption on the network. It's running a little script on startup, and instead of loading fluxbox, it runs without a window manager, which keeps nasty window lines out of the picture. The script associates with the wireless network, maps a network share to the linux box for pictures, and displays them using xv. which randomizes and displays each for 30 seconds. I can update it over the network/internet easily. I simply delete all of the files in the directory, xv dies, and the script waits 3 minutes before reloading it, which forces re-reading of the directory where the pics are. In addition, if something fails, a cron script reboots the machine every night at 12:14 AM.

Just wanted to post to tell everybody thanks and that it works great. It's mounted and matted in a shadowbox from Michael's arts and crafts store and looks GREAT. My parents love it, as since I went to college this year, I can take pictures with my digital camera, resize them to 800x600, and send them home for immediate display right in our kitchen over the internet!

--Branson

Posted by Your Fuzzy God on Sep. 28 2005,20:22

Too awesome! I would love to see some pictures of it in action!

Posted by AwPhuch on Sep. 28 2005,20:47

You have photos and a cool progression/howto done up..would be cool to see your project in its progression bro!

Great job man...how cool is that!

Brian
AwPhuch

Posted by bsparks on Oct. 03 2005,17:11

Oops... Meant to say that I was using feh, not xv. Much more configurable and usable for the DPF job. I'm in college right now, so I'm pretty busy. When I get some time, though, I'll try to put together a brief construction page. I have found an assortment of pages already that really, really helped me that I will post also.

--B

Posted by RoGuE_StreaK on Oct. 04 2005,08:27

College, eh? Just be careful which photos you send back to your parents! :;):

Posted by wirzcat on Nov. 02 2005,16:52

Can you post your script for reference?

Posted by bsparks on Nov. 02 2005,17:06

whenever I have access to it, I'll try. I'm at college now, and it's at home.

Posted by wirzcat on Nov. 02 2005,17:32

Quote (bsparks @ Nov. 02 2005,12:06)

whenever I have access to it, I'll try. I'm at college now, and it's at home.

No rush, it is just nice to be able to tell others to search this forum and use the script someone already created.
Thanks

Posted by SP250 on Dec. 18 2005,20:45

Looking forward to the script, when you have time over the break. I've been struggling with my own Picture frame project with varing success for a while.

I think I need a bit of insperation

I also want it to 'Go Dark' (light sensor) for night-time. Possibly a simple LDR circuit on the serial port or mayby directly on the screen cover switch to send it into sleep mode?.

Posted by speedbal on Dec. 21 2005,00:02

I too am looking forward to your script... I have a thinkpad 390 screaming to be ripped apart and used as a frame.....

speedbal

Posted by bsparks on Jan. 19 2006,04:42

I probably will be going home this weekend, and if I do might have the chance to put it up. Here's the problem... it died last night :-(. I think it's a pretty simple matter to fix, though. It appears to just not be loading x. It might be a network association problem. GAHHHHHHH.... It's been working so well, too.

I really, truly apologize for the long delays here, but if I can get to it, I WILL get it up. I know how everyone feels, because that's exactly how I felt when I first started my project.

Posted by khagberg on Jan. 20 2006,22:49

look here Directions and scripts

< http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....e+frame >

Posted by bsparks on Mar. 03 2006,15:15

Good news/bad news.

The bad news is that my DPF crashed a day before I was going to back up the OS.

The good news is that it will force me to redo it, and I have my camera along every step of the way. I will document and photograph and post a howto soon.