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LukeSkywalker92 / TeleFrame

TeleFrame - a digital picture frame for telegram
MIT License
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Using old android phone as client #131

Closed philffm closed 4 years ago

philffm commented 4 years ago

Hi ! I was wondering if somebody already tried to hook up an old phone for that project? As my main Raspberry Pi (Buster Lite) is standing in the office but the picture frame will be in the kitchen and maybe somewhere else as well. Any experiences with using a virtual screen via VNC or something in that direction? Or is it possible to access some url in the local network? Have some phones flying around and wanted to repurpose them 👍

Thanks in advance ! Will also do some research on what would be the best approach.

gegu commented 4 years ago

You can try TeleFrame-webRemote Addon. This should cover your needs.

philffm commented 4 years ago

Smooth! Still need to start a VNC session once to get the DISPLAY= :0 nohup npm start & command running (otherwise it's not accessible from port 3000 and probably not starting up). Maybe Xvfb (virtual screen) would work as well but that workaround seems to be working for now 🎉

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