PiFrame - Ultimate Raspberry Pi Digital Picture Frame on a 7-inch LCD Tutorial

are you looking for a fun and creative way to display your favorite photos look no further than Raspberry Pi photo frame with its compact size and Endless Possibilities the Raspberry Pi is the perfect setup for anyone who wants to display the photos of their loved ones let's get ready to transform your home or office space with this Innovative and unique project let's get started the digital photo frame we make is very basic which rolls through any number of pictures in the folder and works completely offline connecting to services such as Google Drive and Flickr will build dealt in the upcoming videos stay subscribed in this tutorial I am having a Raspberry Pi 3B plus powered by a power adapter having a 16 gigs of memory card running Raspberry Pi OS and it is connected to Internet or Wi-Fi let's connect the pi to monitor through a HDMI cable and let's do the basic setup firstly we want to prevent the screen from going blank it is a power saving setting on every Raspberry Pi to turn off the screen blanking open up the light DM config file in the Nano text editor add this x server command line below the seed configuration foreign save and exit by pressing Ctrl o and Ctrl X now reboot the pi now the screen should no longer switch after 10 minutes of inactivity if you want to drag and drop your images onto the pi you might want to copy paste from any USB device or download the images from the internet I also highly recommend that you set up SSH so you will have a remote access when a slideshow is in action there is no easy way to exit the slideshow unless you turn on or turn off the device to set up our slideshow we are going to use feh package feh is the image viewer and catalogger it is a fast image viewer that doesn't get bogged down with a huge graphical user interface dependencies I chose this as it was one of the most lightweight package that worked without any huge complications to install the package use the following line enter the below line to begin the photo slideshow foreign type the directory that contains all your image in our case it is slash home slash Pi slash pictures here you go all pictures from the folder will run like a slideshow we don't want to run the command every time we restart Pi so let's automatic this process by creating a script foreign now let's copy the command from video description now we can use short tags to make this command as a lot shorter Q means quite which doesn't report errors when something is not loading p means preload this option would load all images at first and eliminate any images which can't be loaded Z means randomize it randomizes all the images before displaying f means full screen larger images will be scaled down to fit the screen R means reload it reloads the file list every X seconds here feh package reloads every 60 seconds and it looks for new or remote images from the file list y means hide the pointer or cursor d means a slideshow delay it waits X seconds before automatically changing the picture in our case we want a picture to change every 15 seconds you can go through more options on fex package and the link is mentioned in the description below now that's done you can test it by running the following command finally let's have the script start at every boot to do this open up the RC local file by enter the following command add the following before the Exit 0 line in this folder you should now have your very own slideshow of pictures going on now let's connect the Raspberry Pi to LCD display and see how it works the Raspberry Pi has a small connector for a 15 pin ribbon cable which supports the display serial interface and this allows a high speed communication between the LCD screen at the moment the best display to use with this connector is the official Raspberry Pi 7 inch touchscreen which supports a 10 point capacitive touch connecting up the display is fairly straightforward it is designed so that the pi can be mounted on the back of it with all the cables tucked away nicely and neatly to connect your display follow these steps make sure Raspberry Pi is powered off before wiring to avoid any damages to electronic board attach the Raspberry Pi board to the back of the display using the screws and standoffs provided carefully connect the ribbon cable to both the pi board and display control board noting the orientation of the ribbon cable pin don't break it be sure to carefully release the tabs on either side of the socket which allows the cable to slide in all the way then secured it by pressing down on the Taps until they lock in you shouldn't have to force the cable to power the display you can do one of the following connect the red and black jumper wires from 5 volt and Ground Terminal of the pi to the control board wiring is as shown in this picture once your reboot Pi you should see your very own photo frame going on now let's check some of the issues I have faced while doing this project the first issue sometimes Raspberry Pi may not display anything on the screen in which case you will need to use an existing HDMI cable to update your Raspberry Pi make sure the Raspberry Pi is running the latest version of raspbian and then reboot once another common issue where people get while trying this project is picture appearing upside down so how to rotate the screen it is simple go to menu look for the screen configuration change the orientation click apply issue 3 if you think Raspberry Pi is frozen because of this package and if you want to close this application you will need to kill the process by simply entering the following command kindly SSH to your pi and use the command to kill the process I hope your photo frame is working correctly if you have any trouble or have an extension that you would like to share please leave your comments below as always if you like my stuff please follow my YouTube channel until next time check out my other videos thank you for watching

Channel: Tech Traveler

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Keywords: raspberry pi, photoframe, digital, frame, diy, pi, 7inch display, cloud sync, iPhone, photos, slideshow, simple, gift, graphical user interface, google drive, offline, software, feh, lightdm, xserver, script, ssh, rc.local, pkill

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Length: 10min 26sec (626 seconds)

Published: Mon May 01 2023