Advice on making a RSS photo frame?

[nicholas]

I'd like to install some software on a couple of Jogglers, then give them to relatives as a 'self updating photo frame'. I'd like it to check an RSS feed for new images, and then keep the most recent 20 or so in a rotation.

So they look nicer, I want to try to avoid needing a USB stick plugged in, so I figure I best try to keep to the OpenPeak distro.

I've installed "PnP III", and I see perl is available. I'm more a python guy, but I guess I can learn some perl

Does anyone who has been hacking on the Joggler have any advice on the way forward?

Maybe I can install a perl library that lets me draw full screen images, then I replace an init script with something that just runs my perl rather than the Flash UI?

Ah, but then it would be harder for the relatives to setup the wifi...

[BuZz]

not exactly, but a similar idea - with an email address to email photos to and have the screensaver pick them up. in the same way you could have some cron job that checks the rss feed and downloads the images to be shown or something.

http://www.jogglerwiki.com/forum/viewto ... p=690#p690

[nicholas]

Thanks - yeah; I'd feel much more confident if I were to use Ubuntu/Debian (or JoliOS??) - but I'm hoping to avoid using any USB memory.

Maybe I will check into if it's "reversable" to install Ubuntu on the internal memory. I found that it handled powercuts badly before though, and I need these to be really robust, as I won't be around to service them!

[BuZz]

I wouldn't use the internal flash. tis prone to failure.

[trevordavies]

gphotoframe is great- https://code.google.com/p/gphotoframe/

but I let my joggler screen go dark now - it wear sout and goes blurry. I broke out a 2nd joggler I never used for a year - and the display was startlingly clear and sharp.

requires ubuntu/linux-mint/lubuntu etc. -
wget https://gphotoframe.googlecode.com/file ... .1_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i gphotoframe_2.0%7Ea2-0.1_all.deb

(I made these commands up - my jogglers are off at the moment. so tweakage necessary)

the hp165w is tiny usb doodad, fits nicely on the side of the joggler, won't snap off if handled badly