How I use Kodi to turn a Joggler into networked photoframe
Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2015 7:12 pm
I set a spare Joggler up as a networked digital photoframe! Whilst this may already have been very simple for some people, I'm chuffed with myself and wanted to record it here so I can find it again if necessary!
First I downloaded and installed Buzz's latest excellent Xubuntu from http://jwills.co.uk/joggler-xubuntu/download/ to a USB stick. Whilst doing the following setting up I used an unpowered USB hub, keyboard and mouse to make editing easier!
Once booted into Xubuntu, I used sudo nano to edit "/etc/modprobe.d/joggler.conf" and swapped round the wifi drivers so the image would hook up to my Sky SR102 router wirelessly if needed (although this Joggler is actually wired). I had to comment out blacklist rt2800usb (adding a #), and uncomment blacklist rt2870sta (removing the hash)
I then set Kodi to autostart via the System Manager (command kodi), using the 'Alt' key to drag the window so I could see more options at the bottom.
In Kodi I added the network share (not sure if this is necessary), made sure animated transitions were off and set the display time to 30 seconds.
Exiting Kodi, I used sudo nano to create "/home/joggler/.kodi/userdata/autoexec.py" with the following information.
This Joggler now boots into Kodi and automatically runs a random photo slideshow from all the folders on my network photo storage!
Yay!
Oh, I also did the sudo nano -w /boot/grub.cfg edit to add thermal.psv=80 at the end of the line containing "splash"
Edit: Changed Joggler to joggler in path above. Oops!
First I downloaded and installed Buzz's latest excellent Xubuntu from http://jwills.co.uk/joggler-xubuntu/download/ to a USB stick. Whilst doing the following setting up I used an unpowered USB hub, keyboard and mouse to make editing easier!
Once booted into Xubuntu, I used sudo nano to edit "/etc/modprobe.d/joggler.conf" and swapped round the wifi drivers so the image would hook up to my Sky SR102 router wirelessly if needed (although this Joggler is actually wired). I had to comment out blacklist rt2800usb (adding a #), and uncomment blacklist rt2870sta (removing the hash)
I then set Kodi to autostart via the System Manager (command kodi), using the 'Alt' key to drag the window so I could see more options at the bottom.
In Kodi I added the network share (not sure if this is necessary), made sure animated transitions were off and set the display time to 30 seconds.
Exiting Kodi, I used sudo nano to create "/home/joggler/.kodi/userdata/autoexec.py" with the following information.
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import xbmc
xbmc.executebuiltin("SlideShow(smb://NAMEOFSHARE/photo,recursive,random)")Yay!
Oh, I also did the sudo nano -w /boot/grub.cfg edit to add thermal.psv=80 at the end of the line containing "splash"
Edit: Changed Joggler to joggler in path above. Oops!
