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The directions here are what I followed to turn my raspberry pi and 7“ pi screen into a photobox.
Step 1 - Setup
Install Raspiberry pi OS (full) onto an SD card and install in your Pi. Bootup, run raspi-config, and get everything setup the way you like it.
Step 2 - Screen
Follow directions here to setup the screen
Step 3 - Mount network drive on Pi
As discussed here edit
/etc/fstab,
add the line:
//192.168.1.110/public/photos /diskstation_share cifs _netdev,username=guest,password=,dir_mode=0755,file_mode=0755,uid=500,gid=500 0 0
note that _netdev is needed for network shares.
also, i followed the instructions here here and created the file
/etc/network/if-up.d/fstab
with the lines
#!/bin/sh sleep 30 sudo mount -a
Note that the sleep command is a hack that allowed the Pi to settle its network connectivity before it attempted to mount the network folder
Step 4 - Slide viewer
following the directions here, I created the file runslideshow.sh on the ~/Desktop with the following lines
#!/bin/sh cd /home/pi/diskstation_share feh -Z -z -F -D 300 --hide-pointer --auto-rotate --recursive
Note that the recursive allows the directories to be searched recursively.
To make sure it autostarted correctly, I followed the directions here and created a .desktop file at /home/pi/.config/autostart that contains
[Desktop Entry] Type=Application Name=runslideshow Exec=/home/pi/Desktop/./runslideshow.sh
private/writeups/photobox.1609008934.txt.gz · Last modified: 2020/12/26 18:55 by admin
