Do-it-yourself guides for building a Raspberry Pi digital picture frame.
Do you still have an old Apple Remote lying around? Use it to control your picture frame.
Students at the Algonquin College took on the task to develop app tp prepare images for digital picture frames.
Turn your Raspberry Pi digital photo frame into a smart display that wakes when you walk by, sleeps when you don’t, and stays off overnight.
Get your iCloud photos onto your frame with this simple, reliable method for auto-syncing via iCloudPD.
Tap one button on your phone and have PictureFrame only show the photos of your last vacation.
Unlock the power of voice control for your digital picture frame with the cheap M5Stack ASR chip.
You don’t need a Raspberry Pi to run PictureFrame. Just hack an old TV Box! Here is how.
Chris decided not to build one but three stacked digital frames. Here is how.
Black screen on your Pi Zero with Pi3D? Your images may be too large—here’s how to fix it automatically.
Your Raspberry Pi is only as fast as the SD card you feed it—discover which ones deliver top performance.
Increase the maximum display delay of your images in Home Assistant.
If you change your WiFi connection, accessing your digital picture frame will become challenging. Here is a simple fix.
Bookworm requires you to use virtual environments with Python. What sounds complicated is actually very easy.
Here is an updated set of instructions for displaying the currently shown image from your picture frame in Home Assistant.
By default, PictureFrame uses English for geodata, but you can change the language. Here is what to do.
Raspberry Pi Connect is a fantastic feature that enables both screen sharing and remote shell access to a Raspberry Pi.
The 5 GHz WiFi network has higher data throughput but walls and furniture can further reduce signal strength. Less can be more.
Enhance your Pi3D picture frame in minutes by adding USB stick compatibility for unlimited photo access.
Sharing your picture frame library with your family or friends is an excellent idea but how to avoid ending up with many duplicates?
Dive into the essentials of configuring your Pi3D picture frame with this beginner-friendly guide.
Want your photo frame to focus on portrait shots? This guide shows you how to make it happen effortlessly.
Wouldn’t it be nice if your digital frame automatically shows your wedding photos on your anniversary?
Automate all the various steps in the main PictureFrame article with this script and save a lot of time.
Learn how to fix unstable WiFi connections on your Raspberry Pi digital picture frame with this step-by-step guide.
Learn how to build the best Raspberry Pi picture frame in a few simple steps. This guide covers installation with the latest OS Bookworm.
Samba is straightforward to use but the software is so powerful that one easily encounters errors that are quick to fix if you know where to look.
Find the answer to which Raspberry model is best suited for your digital photo frame depending on display size, resolution and functionality.
You have flashed the latest operating system image onto your Raspberry Pi. You now want to access your Pi via SSH with the Terminal app. But what is the IP?
Disabling Wi-Fi power management on your Raspberry Pi can significantly enhance your Wi-Fi network’s stability. Check it out.
Log2Ram is an ingenious solution designed to extend your SD card’s life, one of two components in a picture frame that tends to break after a few years. Here is how to avoid it.
If you want to use date filtering capabilities of Pi3D PictureFrame using Home Assistant, you need your photos to contain valid Exif data information. Here is how to check.
vcgencmd showed the power status of a connected monitor, but this is no longer working with the latest RPI OS. Here is a solution with xrandr.
When you have the whole family adding photos to your frame, it is not unlikely that the same photo will be uploaded several times. Here is how to remove duplicates automatically.
Use xrandr to turn your monitor on and off to replace the deprecated vcgencmd command.
Here is an update to the popular “email-to-frame” script which allows friends & family to send photos directly to your frame.
What if you are building a digital frame as a present and want to have the network of your recipient pre-configured? Add a second network.
One of the more recent features of the image viewer Pi3D PictureFrame is the option to show the date and time as a text overlay over your photos.
If you keep your images on Google Drive you can now directly sync them with your Raspberry Pi digital picture frame.
Read my account on how I upgraded from a 24” to a 32” 4K monitor using the Pi3D PictureFrame image viewer and what the main differences were.
Opening up a working computer monitor is not for the faint-hearted. But it’s not difficult either if you know. Watch me stripping a BenQ PD3200U.
Finally, the Linux program ddcutil works on the Raspberry Pi. A great tool to automate brightness controls and much more.
Did you know that you can log into your Raspberry Pi via Terminal without a password? And make it even more secure?
Changing the display brightness via software is really difficult to do from a Raspberry Pi. The Pi3D image viewer offers a great workaround.
Learn how Helge tightly integrated Home Assistant and the Pi3D PictureFrame image viewer to achieve a great level of comfort and functionality.
A matte in a picture frame increases the value perception of an image and also provides a solution for photos in different aspect ratios.
This is one of the most frequent issues for Raspberry Pi beginners. But the solution is very simple.
Change your landscape photo frame to portrait orientation in less than five minutes.
Are you running your Test Raspberry Pi in a headless mode without an external monitor? Here is an inexpensive and simple solution to use your computer’s monitor as a screen.
There are currently over 170 4K monitors on the market, but only a few are suitable for high-end Raspberry Pi digital picture frames. Here is my recommendation.
Sometimes you experience issues with your digital picture frame and suspect that it may have something to do with your WiFi network’s signal quality. This is how you find out.
Having owned and built large digital picture frames for over fifteen years now, I may have a few insightful statistics to share. Preventive maintenance goes a long way.
The day will come when, for whatever reason, your WiFi SSID or password has changed, and you cannot connect to your picture frame anymore. Get some insurance.
If you give your family & friends the permission to directly send pictures to your photo frame, you are likely to end up with duplicates over time. Here is how to keep your house clean.
The image viewer Pi3D, Home Assistant and Amazon Alexa is a match made in heaven when it comes to magically control your images on the wall. Here is why.
Yes, this is a bit nerdy. But wouldn’t you want to monitor the CPU temperature of your Raspberry Pi? It’s easy to do with MQTT.
When you have thousands of photos on your frame, you may not immediately remember every single image taken. Introducing the new Pi3D PictureFrame geolocation feature.
Dave had very specific requirements as to a digital picture frame. As no off-the-shelf model satisfied him, he decided to build one. With special features.
When you have many photos on your digital picture frame, you probably sometimes look at an image and wonder “when was this taken”? Siri will have the answer.
The HEIC image file format may be the successor to JPG. Popular on Apple devices, you can now use it on your Raspberry Pi with the Pi3D image viewer.
The aluminum Flirc case is excellent for keeping the Raspberry Pi cool and good looking. But doesn’t the metal enclosure impact the onboard WiFi performance? I was in for an unexpected result.
Using a completely stripped down 32-inch BenQ PD3200 computer monitor, Rob built a stunning 3:2 digital picture frame with a 4K resolution.
Here is a great way to remote control your digital picture frame with your Apple Watch or Siri. It uses Apple Shortcuts and lets you magically do almost everything.
Aqara sensors are used in many home automation settings to measure the room temperature, alert when windows or doors open, objects move, or water is leaking. If you struggle to change the battery, read this.
This is the story of Josh’s recent DIY project which included building a large digital picture frame with a 3:2 aspect ratio. Oh, yes, this also caused him a full renovation of his fireplace…
Every once in awhile, setting up MQTT just doesn’t work, and you may spend hours trying to find the bug only to eventually conclude that it was just a silly small thing that you forgot. This article helps you save time.
Here is a modern alternative to crontab if you want to schedule tasks based on specific dates or times.
In this article, I will show you three monitors I recommend for a 24 inches digital picture frame. Here is what makes them great.
The Ken Burns effect is a type of panning and zooming motion which makes still imagery come to life. Read here how to activate it.
There are several ways to autostart Python scripts. My recommendation is to use “systemd” which was introduced in 2018.
I ofter get asked for recommendations, so in this article I will show which hard- and software I am personally using for our living room photo frame.
There is a way to discover art, at a pace that works for everyone. At home in your living room. On your digital picture frame. This is where you find the masterpieces for free. Legally.
Did you always want to tell your picture frame to delete an image that you don’t want to see anymore? Now you can.
Your colleagues are expected for dinner and you don’t want to show all the family pictures on your frame. How about some art?
Overwhelmed by the many options contained in the Pi3D PictureFrame configuration file? Discover the many possibilities.
Most of the tutorials here on this blog involve the use of the terminal. For Raspberry Pi novices, here are some fundamentals that make it super easy following my instructions.
In this Pi3D FAQ, I have compiled questions that we received, commands you may frequently use, and several tidbits you may want to discover and try for yourself.
Do you want to use your Android phone to remote control your digital picture frame? Have a look at DashMQTT.
Do you want to use your iPhone/iPad to remote control your photo frame? Here is how to do it.
Do you only want to show the images of your birthday party from last week on your digital frame? Just say it!
If you love photo art and you want to enjoy it in the best possible way, your will one day end up with a 4K digital frame. Here is how to build it yourself.
Using the command line instead of the GUI can be a big time-saver especially for repetitive tasks. Here is my shortlist to replace the “raspi-config” menu with the command line.
Learn about the different types of PIR sensor hardware and get a complete Python script to automate display on/off.
No more powering down a Raspberry Pi and taking out the SD card to make a backup image. Discover Hot-cloning!
Automatically show the location where a photo was taken using the Exif data and the Pi3D image viewer.
If you keep your images on Google Photos you can now directly display them on your digital picture frame in the living room.
Yes, you can! Finally connect your Raspberry Pi to Dropbox and sync all your files. An official tweak makes it possible.
Don’t just restore, but also backup your Raspberry Pi SD-cards and shrink the file size of your image to a minimum.
All the questions you always wanted to ask but were too afraid to.
Bring the incredible world of Internet of Things (IoT) communication to your Raspberry Pi without using Cloud services.
Discover hacks & botches from your fellow digital photo frame home brewers.
You don’t need to install any additional software to see the screen of your remote digital picture frame on your Mac. Here is how to do it.
Many SAMBA instructions on the Internet, especially with regards to macOS, are hopelessly outdated. Here is the 2020 Version including a full SAMBA config file to copy & paste.
If you don’t want a cloud-based Dropbox solution, nor pay for a full Resilio license, have a look at Syncthing, the great file synchronization app from Sweden. It’s even free.
Here is the solution that you stumble upon only now after spending hours trying to decode this strange error message.
Changing a password should be simple. But there are situations when it gets tricky. Here is how to prevent those moments.
Not using Home Assistant and looking for an alternative to use Alexa without diving deep into the bowels of an Amazon developer account? Meet Node-RED.
I will show you three very different slide viewers that you can use for your digital picture frame project.
If you want to apply smart filters to only show specific images, you will need accurate Exif data. Run a health check on your collection.
Customize the boot-up screen of your Pi like a painter signs his work at the end of his artistic journey.
Now you see it, now you don’t. Learn what lies at the end of the rainbow when it starts glowing on your screen.
If you have built photo frames for friends & family, here is a way to service them from a distance.
In a time where we should avoid touching things, voice control is the way to go. I’ll explain how to make Alexa operate your photo frame without asking for treats.
Do you want to see how many images you have uploaded to your frame? MQTT makes it easy.
One of my best articles on integrating a digital frame in to a Home Automation environment and saving power in the process.
Are you looking for a simple way for friends & family to send their images directly to your living room?
Are you a regular person? Use the Linux scheduler crontab to set the ON hours of your photo frame.
The free iOS app PiHelper allows you to remote control your Raspberry Pi. Here is an example of how to control the screen of your digital picture frame.
Pi3D PictureFrame is hands down the best image viewer software you can find for your photo frame. Look here for a full tutorial to set it up in no time.
Check out the online tool Croppola that uses sophisticated image recognition software to find the best composition and crop in a photo automatically.
Follow me on my journey step-by-step to learn which hard- and software to use and a few other useful tweaks.
Resilio Sync works like Dropbox with the difference that no copies of the files are being stored in the Cloud.
Learn how to install everything you need for a digital picture frame including Raspberry Pi OS, Samba, Pi3D image viewer and autostart.
I have spent countless hours researching the subject of digital picture frames. In this article, I will share my key findings with you.
Why I ended up using the Raspberry Pi for my digital picture frame and why I have no regrets five years later.
There are many digital picture frames out there that you can buy, but depending on your requirements, they may not exactly correspond to what you want to have in your living room.
Check out this article before you go out and buy a computer monitor for your digital frame project.
Digital picture frames are like a time machine. They constantly bring up memories, start conversations and make you smile. They are a great way to remain close to those who are far and bring joy to everyday friends & family.
On this website, you will find unbiased product reviews and recommendations on off-the-shelf digital picture frames as well as many do-it-yourself instructions that will enable you to build a customized digital picture frame based on the famous Raspberry Pi.
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