Folder gallery

[WizardUli]

It would be nice to have a template for just displaying photos from a folder in a selectable order (sorted alphabetically by path or random). I want to use FrameOS just for displaying some photos on a (mostly) offline device from a folder on a flash drive (not some cloud) but haven't had time to learn Nim just yet to write my own app.

I imagine that exact use case is probably very common (e.g. gifting grandma who does not have internet a frame preloaded with family pictures changing once a day) hence I'm suggesting adding it as a template.

[mariusandra]

Hey, that's not a bad idea! I've added a "local image" app with the latest updates, and a corresponding "SD card image" sample scene to the repository.

It currently supports all formats that the pixie nim package can read.

If you intend this frame to run forever, I do at present also suggest enabling nightly restarts (under the frame's settings), as there seems to be a small memory leak with the logger... :/.

This works for now, but I'd love to make image uploads even easier through the interface. I'll get to it one day...

Please let me know if you run into any issues.

[WizardUli]

Seems to work nicely. Thanks for the quick response.

Maybe the counter could be replaced with a filename (or rather a path in case we want sub-folders) and let it be publicly a changeable state in case we want to switch to a specific image manually or on some event. But that can wait until I learn Nim and then I can to it myself. ( I have always want to learn Nim anyway since it compiles to C so I can play with esoteric non-ARM non-RISC-V MCUs with their own esoteric C toolchains :D )