lpurdy01 / reddit-picture-frame

Displays image posts from subreddits with the title text.

Reddit Picture Frame

!There be bugs and lazy code here!

This repo is designed to make a nice picture frame like display from photos posted to a subreddit. Originally designed to pull from r/dalle2, but it should be reasonably adaptable.

For the default scripts to work, must be cloned into

/home/pi/repos/reddit-picture-frame

Such that the ep_st.html is located at

/home/pi/repos/reddit-picture-frame/ep_st.html

A venv should be setup:

source venv/bin/activate
pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Installing praw will fail, simply install with

pip3 install praw

You need chromium for this to work. I used

sudo apt-get install chromium x11-xserver-utils matchbox unclutter

And some making stuff executable. You probably need to do this to ep_st.py and fullscreen.sh

sudo chmod 777 ep_st.py
sudo chmod +x ep_st.py

./fullscreen.sh is the start command. Look at it before you run it. It runs both ep_st.py and a chromium instance. You have to manually go kill those processes before running it again.

Setup Notes From Earthporn Showerthoughts

Setup in terminal:

git clone https://gitlab.com/scul/earthporn_showerthoughts.git
cd earthporn_showerthoughts 
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Change the file paths in ep_st.config for:

• template: where you have stored the template (should be the same folder)
• display: where you want the output file (ep_st.html)
• log: where to put the log file (ep_st.log)

default location for all 3 above is the same folder as 'ep_st.py

If desired, set the display_path to somewhere accessible by your webserver, otherwise does not matter Run the python3 script (from the containing folder: ./ep_st.py) Go to the output file, and display it in your webbrowser.

Feel free to tinker with the settings (minSize, number of posts to get, etc...)

Other Useful Sites I Took Stuff From

ShowerThoughts and EarthPorn: Make an Inspiring Raspberry Pi Photo Frame