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Is there a way to remotely (wired/wireless) update photos in a digital picture frame that doesn鈥檛 have any connectivity capability? All it has is a USB port and sd card port.

  • catloaf@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    They make wireless SD cards. Pretty sure USB drives too.

    Or you could build one yourself with a raspberry pi or something. I鈥檓 sure there鈥檚 a way to present its storage on USB, then add wifi for you to access that storage.

    • mbirth 馃嚞馃嚙@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      That probably doesn鈥檛 work unless you power-cycle the picture frame after changing the photos.

      I had this with some offline Samsung picture frame and a Transcend WiFi SD card. The SD card runs a small Linux and can be unlocked to add own scripts. I had a script that would rsync files from my storage to the SD. However, while the new files were written to the SD just fine, the picture frame never re-read the list of files from the SD. And after power-cycling, my specific model needed to be turned on manually again. So, that wasn鈥檛 a satisfactory solution.

      • Willem@kutsuya.dev
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        1 year ago

        A smart powerplug and/or a fingerbot would solve that problem I guess? But at that point it鈥檚 probably cheaper to buy a network connected picture frame.