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Wallpaper downloader and rotator that uses Flickr and Webshots.
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Feature Request - Flickr config limitations #39

Open ns9rt opened 12 years ago

ns9rt commented 12 years ago

I'm trying to use webilder to power an Raspberry Pi based digital photo frame.

Concept is to point it at one (or more) flickr account (and tags) and allow it to download automatically photos as they occur.

Seems to work fine in concept however the options for Flickr config are just a little too limited currently. Is it possible to remove the need to point at a specific folder? Instead just pointing at an account in general perhaps.

I think this would be a very popular feature if its possible.

thesamet commented 12 years ago

Wow, this sounds like an awesome project! Please be sure to send me photos of your photo frame once you get it working.

Sounds you like you don't need the UI at all, and you'll be comfortable with a command line tool that just downloads the photos to some directory. Does it sound right? In that case, that would be very easy to implement based on the Python Flickr module that's included with webilder. I'll be happy to provide you with guidelines if you want to go this way.

-Nadav

On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 2:16 PM, ns9rt notifications@github.com wrote:

I'm trying to use webilder to power an Raspberry Pi based digital photo frame.

Concept is to point it at one (or more) flickr account (and tags) and allow it to download automatically photos as they occur.

Seems to work fine in concept however the options for Flickr config are just a little too limited currently. Is it possible to remove the need to point at a specific folder? Instead just pointing at an account in general perhaps.

I think this would be a very popular feature if its possible.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/thesamet/webilder/issues/39.

ns9rt commented 12 years ago

Sure, I have the hardware all built and running a random 1080p 18" laptop screen with a LVDS interface converting to DVI mounted in a frame. Will definitely post some pics once I have it all playing nicely.

The problem is just my inexperience with Linux (!) and tracking down suitable software.

I think you're right that the UI isn't really needed, it should just be a case of pointing it at the feed and then letting it download everything periodically a pushing the wallpaper update.

thesamet commented 12 years ago

I'd suggest to try reading webilder's source code, I believe you can get it to do what you want in the mean time pretty easily. Specifically, take a look at webilder/src/webilder/flickr/init.py in get_download_list, where the list of files to download is created. Let me know if you need additional pointers.

On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 2:46 PM, ns9rt notifications@github.com wrote:

Sure, I have the hardware all built and running a random 1080p 18" laptop screen with a LVDS interface converting to DVI mounted in a frame. Will definitely post some pics once I have it all playing nicely.

The problem is just my inexperience with Linux (!) and tracking down suitable software.

I think you're right that the UI isn't really needed, it should just be a case of pointing it at the feed and then letting it download everything periodically a pushing the wallpaper update.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/thesamet/webilder/issues/39#issuecomment-8600010.

-Nadav

ns9rt commented 12 years ago

Will have a pop at the weekend.