Update Digital Picture Frame library remotely?
from tarius@lemmy.ml to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 19 Oct 00:37
https://lemmy.ml/post/21547680

Is there a way to remotely (wired/wireless) update photos in a digital picture frame that doesn’t have any connectivity capability? All it has is a USB port and sd card port.

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Willem@kutsuya.dev on 19 Oct 00:42 next collapse

You could use something like the Toshiba flash air?

mbirth@lemmy.ml on 19 Oct 01:36 collapse

That probably doesn’t work unless you power-cycle the picture frame after changing the photos.

I had this with some offline Samsung picture frame and a Transcend WiFi SD card. The SD card runs a small Linux and can be unlocked to add own scripts. I had a script that would rsync files from my storage to the SD. However, while the new files were written to the SD just fine, the picture frame never re-read the list of files from the SD. And after power-cycling, my specific model needed to be turned on manually again. So, that wasn’t a satisfactory solution.

Willem@kutsuya.dev on 19 Oct 02:32 collapse

A smart powerplug and/or a fingerbot would solve that problem I guess? But at that point it’s probably cheaper to buy a network connected picture frame.

catloaf@lemm.ee on 19 Oct 00:46 collapse

They make wireless SD cards. Pretty sure USB drives too.

Or you could build one yourself with a raspberry pi or something. I’m sure there’s a way to present its storage on USB, then add wifi for you to access that storage.