Enhancement - Digital Picture Frame Mode

MattsShack / Plex-Movie-Poster-Display

Scraps the Plex sessions page to display the current playing movie or TV show poster on a screen.

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Enhancement - Digital Picture Frame Mode #48

Open ZeroCoolGOS opened 3 years ago

ZeroCoolGOS commented 3 years ago

Enhance Custom Configuration to use system as a digital picture frame.

Phase 1:

Generate list of all custom images uploaded and randomly pick a photo.
Set as "Full Background" same as how the background art is working.
Disable "blur" for photo album

Phase 2 (Possibly):

Add metadata read for display of information per photo.
Add "Folder Name" display and use that as metadata

tkent42 commented 3 years ago

Seconded. I made a digital frame made for art and displaying images with feh. I just setup this Movie Poster, (Great work!) and it would be so great to do both without restarting. Instead of coming soon it could be a folder of images. Would help to have a different refresh interval for this setting too.

ZeroCoolGOS commented 3 years ago

I will look at setting the refresh rates for each type, as that will come in handy.

ZeroCoolGOS commented 3 years ago

Phase 1 - Complete

Phase 2 - (Still Pending)

Add metadata read for display of information per photo.
Add "Folder Name" display and use that as metadata

tkent42 commented 3 years ago

Thanks, I updated and got it working to show art images full screen! Also having different transition and refresh speeds for different functions is handy.

I noticed that the save changes button on Custom images disappeared and when I uploaded another file it reappeared. Couldn't replicate it.

I imagine using this custom Configuration as a sort of screen saver. It is active showing art then when I start playing media it switches to Now Showing then when I stop media it switches to Coming soon for a period of time then after another period of time it goes back to art.

Is there another way to link a folder of images instead of adding them one by one? I see I can point to where custom images go, is there a way to scan that folder and add to list? I have too many images to add individually.

Not sure if this is all in the scope of this project but looks like there is momentum and wanted to give feedback.

ZeroCoolGOS commented 3 years ago

I have made a few changes in my latest PR that should hopefully get approved today that will help with the full screen option.

I still have a few more issues as some images are being cropped based on screen size and orientation.

As for multiple images you can zip them up and upload in bulk.

We do not have a way to have it point to a remote location as that could be a bit complex for security.

There is also the option to upload them directly to the folder and the page will rescan the folder.

As for the Custom->Now Playing->Coming Soon->Custom. It might be something we can look into in the future. Please write it up as a separate feature request and we can look at what that would look like.

It might be doable in the future after some more refactoring.

tkent42 commented 3 years ago

Ahhh, zip. Thanks that was much easier. I will write that up, thanks again.