Raspberry Pi-powered digital photo frame that displays images from a Google Photos album.
NOTE: Only tested on a Raspberry Pi Zero.
- Node.js Photo downloader and manager for the feh image viewer subprocess.
- xserver as a minimal X11 server.
- wifi-connect for easy WiFi configuration.
The Raspberry Pi zero is not compatible with Balena Photo Slideshow since its component Balena Dash is not compatible with older Raspberry Pi's.
Instead of using a browser, this uses feh as a minimal image viewer which is more RAM-friendly.
You can deploy this app to a new balenaCloud fleet in one click using the button below:
Or, you can create a Fleet in your balenaCloud dashboard and balena push this code to it the traditional way. Just be aware that balenaDash requires that you allocate more memory to the GPU. This is achieved by adding (or editing the existing) the Device configuration variable Define device GPU memory in megabytes. For this project we recommend setting it to 128.
- On balenaCloud, go to Device variables D(x) and add the following:
| ENV VAR | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
| ALBUM_URL | Gallery URL for google photos | https://goo.gl/photos/XQ2sGUyPe3swFVga |
| CRON | Cron scheduler to download new and delete old photos | 0 0 * * * |
| WIDTH | Width of the downloaded picture | 1366 |
| DELAY | Delay between pictures in seconds | 10 |
| RELOAD_INTERVAL | Interval on when to check locally for new pictures. This is parameter is directly passed to feh |
60 |