Dynaframe 2 - Ultimate Raspberry Pi Photo AND Video Frame (Updated!)
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- Dynaframe 2 - An Open Source Raspberry Pi Photo and Video Frame
Update 2: This is a free open source version, but if you're looking for an easier solution, please check out Dynaframe Pro, which is out now! • Announcing Dynaframe P...
Update: After you see this one, please check out the update for even more (and some truly epic) features! • Taking the Raspberry P...
A year ago I uploaded a video about a project I called "Dynaframe". A dynamic picture and video digital frame which you could control with a web browser, and which was powered by a Raspberry pi. It was a popular project, but was very klunky.
And now...the sequel...better in every way! We now have transitions, an easier install, settings for slide times, shuffle, automatic scaling, and more! This video will tell you how to install it, give you a demo of what it does, talk about the new features, and talk a little bit about what's next.
To image a raspberry pi, there are plenty of good tutorials. I go through it very quickly, if that doesn't work please see the instructions at the Raspberry pi foundation site. The image and instructions can be found at:
Note: Please use one of the desktop images! I'm not sure if it'll work without the desktop.
www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/
To crate the image, you can use the imager on the Raspberry pi site, or "Etcher". You can get that from here:
www.balena.io/etcher/
To install it, please paste this into the console on a raspberry pi: (Note: Updated to 2.19 version)
sudo wget github.com/Geektoolkit/Dynafr... && bash install.sh; rm -f install.sh
I used artwork from a large variety of sources I've collected over the years, but I want to thank the following who provided alot of it, all from Deviantart:
Artist credits:
The following artists who let me share their work:
Nick Trahan (Elsdrag00n) / elsdrag00n
Francislugfran www.deviantart.com/francislug...
Dash Martint www.deviantart.com/dashmartin
Nopeys www.deviantart.com/nopeys
Axsens www.deviantart.com/axsens
Fernanda Suarez www.deviantart.com/fdasuarez
Source code, and issues can be filed at: github.com/Geektoolkit/Dynafr...
This is built on the AvaloniaUI framework at: avaloniaui.net/. Thankyou to the AvaloniaUI team for making this amazing framework! - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
this project is amazing. thanks so much for the time you have put into it. Really looking forward to the next video on rclone and cloud sync features
Thankyou! I have one 3D print video I'm editing and then I'm getting back to this, but in the background i'm still coding on it pretty hard. I have the ability to add / remove directories coming in the next build with a bit better UI for the web interface (still a long way to go). The adding/removing directories helps greatly to add the ability to do stuff like add a NAS or USB drive. I setup a NAS also so I can test that. I'll definitely talk through RClone as that really makes it magical :)
I just saw and commented on your first DynaFrame video this morning. That subscription is returning dividends as I got to see this update!
Awesome! Another one isn't far away (well reatively). Keep an eye on the github page, new releases are coming out there, and I have one soon that is a big code cleanup and should make things a bit nicer. It also includes a nicer UI, ability to turn off certain features and more
Amazing work. This is amazing. Your passion for this project clearly shows. I will for sure use this.
Thankyou!! I have a follow up video where I added a few features like multi frame that you like!
Wow! I’m blown away. This will definitely be the next project I’m doing!! Thank you for all your efforts!
Thanks glad you like it! Make
Sure to check the Dynaframe pro videos out also this has come a long way
Great video Joe! Appreciate the work you put into this! A really cool future feature would be the option to include descriptive captions to credit the artist (or whatever else). Looks like you’re in the right direction with the clock feature! Also do you see yourself allowing image data to be pulled from an API?
Thankyou! I’m working on a “pro” version which will allow the display of EXIF data. The good news is that it gives title, artist, tags and an info section. The bad news is that it doesn’t work for PNG that I’ve seen. But that into would appear in the clock section.
I really want to make all aspects available via API (and most already are). I’ll look into exposing the current file info
Thanks so much for your hard work, I love this you resurrected 2 monitors in my closet and gave them new life, great job!!!
Yay! Thankyou! If you hit any issues please let me know. I'm working through some small bugs, but for the most part I've run it on 2 TVs and the 2 monitors for a week now and it's been stable!
Holy Smoke - this is GREAT - thank you!!! I was trying all this crazy stuff to make my Pi show the info I wanted all around the plant and you had all the work done for me - excellent and SO EASY. Thank you again!
Glad it works! Also check out the followup in case there are features on Dynaframe Pro that you may need...5$ gets you a build if you need them, but otherwise this one is free and gives you source so you can extend it for what you need
@@geektoolkit I will check it out! I'm just starting this project of plant information displays, so I may need the Pro features before I am done. For my initial one, this is working fine but I have a long way to go. Thank you!
BRA-VO! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 You are great, man! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 I'm looking forward to making a digital portrait as a gift! Also, thanks for being so thorough as well! 👏🏻
Thankyou! I hope it goes well, if you hit any issues please comment here or put them on the github and I'll take a look. Hoping it ends up being a beloved gift!
This is really awesome man excited to try this out, thanks for all the work on it!
Glad you liked it! I'm way behind on my comments (as you can see) but I'm working on a Dynaframe Pro that's going to blow this out of the water. Check out the successor videos to this if you get a chance and get ready for something even crazier coming soon :)
Man this is so cool! I’ve never been a fan of Harry Potter but this gave me a bunch of ideas. I really like the passion you have working on this it’s impressive what came out of it. If I find the time this weekend I can put up a pull to improve the ui. Really cool
Thankyou!!! I’d love that!
@@geektoolkit Hey I spent some time and whipped up a new WebTemplate.htm, I don't see instructions for contributing on the git, I will add it as an issue, feel free to take a look and try it out
Thankyou!!!!! I’ll take a look tonight that’s awesome Thankyou!!
so nice that you updated this, it‘s gonna be the first project when I moved in with my girlfriend next year
Awesome!!! And congrats that’s a big move! I’m planning on more updates soon so by then it should be Really fancy :) I feel bad it took me so long to update it but I wanted to do it right and be happy with it. I think people will really find this slick and useful when they get it running :)
Please do not blame Joe if it doesn’t work out. Not talking about the project but you moving in.
Lol that cracked me up! Hoping it all
Works out!!
This is just awesome. Good work Joe
Thankyou!!!
Exactly what i was looking for :) Thank you for uploading
Cool! Check out the GitHub it’s a bit further ahead on versions (2.09). My next video is a follow up to this
This looks awesome, I can’t wait to make this!
Have fun!! Keep an eye on the GitHub lots of good chats going on there
I love the passion and the dedication you have put behind the project. My question is ...do the photos have to be in the raspberry pi or can they be played form the network or file storage?
Also if there is a way for you to upload all the cool art work you got and maybe we can buy you a beer or donate to your favorite charity or artist because that will be great LOL
Lol! The links to deviant art will get you some great starts on sources of amazing artwork. I can’t upload it because I’d be doing a huge disservice to those artists. I will show how I created the moving ones though and maybe can release those!
Right now the art has to be on the frame. I’m working on Samba support as a “coming soon” feature though, as well as cloud syncing using Rsync. Should have a flurry of new features in the next few weeks but wanted to get it out and get feedback and see what people were interested in.
I mounted a network folder under /home/pi/Pictures/your folder name and it works.
Very good work, thank you so much. Absolutely loving this project!
Thank you!!! Keep an eye on the GitHub it has some more releases! I’m working hard on the next one but it’s a bit of a rewrite so it’ll be a month maybe. But some cool features are coming soon!
Thank you for your work and passion! I was curious about such a project when I started Googling... now because of this video, I am STOKED to do this! What great work you've done to make this accessible.
One idea for a feature: dual-display support for Pis with 2 HDMI outputs, one for Portrait and one for Landscape, and your software picks which orientation / monitor is best, zooms to fill the smaller dimension, pads the remaining pixels with black, then sends to the appropriate HDMI port, thereby maximizing every picture. I know some digital frames will make collages of "wrong orientation" pictures, that would be cool for single displays.
Thankyou! This has come a LONG way so please keep an eye out. There’s a follow up to this video out already, but another is about to drop any day now for the “pro” setup. It’s got features like web upload from the phone directly to the frames, better multi frame sync, usb drive support (auto detected) and more. It also blurboxes images that are not scaled to fit which I think looks really clean (but scaling options are there also).
The dual display thing is really tough. I’m looking into it and will see what I can do though. I get a lot of requests for dual display on pi4 but they all are different. Some want to control what’s on each, some want them to mirror, some want them to dynamically choose. I’ll have tor honk on it and see what I can do. For now multiple pis can be synced (see the Epic update linked off this one for that demo).
If you do pad with pixels, perhaps offer a few options: 1) pad with a selected color the user can match to the frame or mat they have around the display; 2) pad with the dominant (or minor) color from the image itself; 3) stretch the pixel at the edge of the image out to the edge of the display
You wrote while I did! Hadn’t seen the follow-up, the blur sounds awesome. Digital gallery wrap with addressable LEDs? Kidding!!
Holy crap you really did make this easy enough for anyone... I need more screens now man...
Thankyou! Yeah I watched some of the others, and even my V1 and thought 'this needs to be easier. I'm going to go make this easier'. :D
Love what you have done. I watch all your videos m and have a few questions for you. What version do you recommend if you have a Raspberry Pi 3B? I can’t get the Web UI to work or show on the first picture. Anyway to make changes to the slideshow setting directly on the Pi it self? Thanks you for making this. My goal is to get this work with what I have and upgrade my Pi and to the pro.
Ps: I am new to using the Raspberry Pi and actually salvage one from Kano kids coding kit because I saw your video. I love your idea and application. I see so much potential.
Wow! Great job! This is just amazing!
Thankyou! Its only going to get better! On the github are a few versions with fixes and a better UI, and some amazing features will be released in the coming months. I love mine!
Great job! Looking forward to use it
Cool! Keep an eye on github, lots of updates coming there (Faster than I can make videos!)
this was the best thing ever. i have been looking for something like this for a long time. i would love a feature that would only show portrait photos when you set to 90 or 180 and only show landscape photos when the others are activated. don't get me started on a photo mosaic which I still haven't been able to do.
Photo mosaic like the one where the small iamges become a big one? or just having multiple shown at a time?
Dude you are amaaaazing. not only did i find what i had in mind but some one much more skilled then i am was able to explain this. im so late to the party but glad i found you! insta sub
Thankyou for that! I have a few videos on this project and work on it when I get time. Hope that setup goes smooth, and keep an eye on github, that's where the latest releases are announced. Thanks for the support!
THIS IS AWESOME!!!! I just made an amazing Christmas present for my sister with this! Thank you!! How can I support you for this great work?!
You just did by making my day. I do this so others can build it and create things and happiness, and you have. That’s all I could ask. If you share it to others it may further spread but that’s just a bonus. Glad it went well!
Amazing product sir! Well done!
Thank you kindly!
Wow and I do mean WOW! Took < 20 minutes to set it up. Fantastic. Thank you.
Yay! I worked hard on the setup portion, and many of the features were inspired by your asks! Still working on a few, so please keep up the feedback
Great project. I could see having a way to automatically adjust brightness to match room being a useful feature. This would be tricky since all displays function differently though.
Yeah it’s actually something I’ve worked hard to try to implement. HDMI has some ability to do this in a consistent way but the pi4 has an issue using it last I checked. I have to revisit it as it’s a goal of mine to implement eventually
@@geektoolkit Unfortunately this didnt work out for me.
I installed ubuntu server and Dynaframe3
When i run "run.sh" from the dynaframe folder it returns "nunclutter: could not open display"
So i installed on top the XFCE Dektop with "tasksel"-> one line install :)
Still didnt work, so i installed dynaframe again.
I dont understand why, what i did wrong. I have pictures in /home/pi/pictures at all users
Wow. Just found this in Feb 2021 and this is really cool. Was just looking for something like this.
Glad you found it!! Hope you’re able to get it setup and enjoy it
Awesome! I cant wait to try this!
Yay! I love it...I build this in hopes others will be inspired and have fun with them. Check the github, based on when you do there may be newer versions there. I have a prerelease now that'll let you add another path, and has a UI update. working on another update in the next week or so
Okay. I'm impressed. Amazed really.
Thankyou! Sometimes working closely with a project like this I get nervous because I wonder “am I the only one excited or is this really cool?” So seeing comments like this makes me happy :)
This is incredible!! Really impressed!
Wait till you see the pro update! Video should be out in a few days, so stoked to show that off
@@geektoolkit Can't wait!
It's on! I'm putting this on a pi 3B tonight. Great idea!
It worked! Can't show ip address with 2.19 (freezes). Otherwise a smooth install! I forgot to ad pics.. Would be nice if that screen showed the ip too. Other than needing the ip at first, it's not needed to display. Oh also took me a minute to use port 8000. Slide that into the readme please. This project is what I needed. Thank You!!!
The IP when no pics are there is a great idea! I’ll get that added. I’ve been hard at work rewriting a ton of this. The new version has a QR code along with the IP, and a gesture sensor. I’m going to do dedicated videos for how to use it. This projects generated a lot of feature requests that have taken me a lot of time
@@geektoolkit Do I need Samba? I'm not a linux guy and couldn't get it to start. :( The webpage allowed one pic transfer not a folder. It's not a biggie as I use a usb drive, but would be nice to use my lan (windows networking).
Yeah for windows networking you have to setup samba on the pi or you can try using Rclone to sync a folder over such as OneDrive or Google drive. I’m working on a better solution for the next version
Thanks Joe! I learned a lot!
Yay! Let me know if you want to build one! :D
Thank you for this. Can’t wait to get back from work to get it going. May invoke ‘POETS Day’...
I had to look up POETS day, and ...that's amazing. I need to add that into my vocabulary here in the states! I'm glad you're enjoying it!
Amazing work, thank you so much
You’re welcome and Thankyou for the kind comment!
Thanks man. You really helped me .
Excellent glad it helped!
Looks cool! Love your reel :D
Thankyou so much, been putting a ton of work into it :)
Thanks for the video and sharing!!
Thankyou! I am proud to have it out there for the community to use and improve. It's been a ton of fun to have going...please see the next update after this one, it gets really crazy on that one :)
Just wanted to say thanks again for this most excellent software. Im really enjoying it. I loaded it up with a bunch of horror wallpapers last month and it looked great. Now I'm displaying family photos and video clips. Its awesome how the clips and photos all show together.
A couple of requests for future updates. 1. Can you please add support for pcd files? I tried a set of autumn scenes in pcd format and nothing showed. I know I can always convert them to jpg, but it would be cool if dynaframe directly supported it. 2. I'm sure there are others like me and load up hundreds of pics on their pi. Some pics I have I haven't seen in a long time or just forgot about them. It would be helpful to have a way to see a photos filename if a pic appears that I forgot I had and wanted to find it easily later on instead of manually reviewing all pics in the folder.
Im still tweaking the settings to see what works best for pics and clips together. I guess one more request would be to have an option to adjust the time limit of any clips that are in the same folder as photos. For example photos could be set to 30 seconds, while a video could be set to 90 seconds or something like that. Now all I have to do is figure out the best wall to hang the monitor on. Presently it's just been sitting on my fireplace in the living room. Sorry for the long-winded post, I appreciate all your hard work!
Thanks that's a great post! I do these projects in hopes that a few others will build it, and this project has gone way beyond my expectations! On the github is a 2.08 version, if you run that you'll get some updates, and one of them is the ability to hit the 'f' key to turn on file name views. It's a bit experimental, but it's something I'm working on. For PCD files that's very very tough...I'm using an engine that supports a set of image types, and as long as they're supported i get the fade effects (with the ability to create more effects soon). For PCD I'd have to use another app, and that'd break the fades entirely. I'll look into it a bit more to see if there's some way to shim it into the engine regardless.
Different lengths for videos and photos is a good suggestion. The newer version (2.08) plays the video files as long as the photo, but I didn't think about having them seperate. I'll see what I can do there.
That's so much for sharing this. You have made it so simple to install and use, and as you know, that is NOT something easy to find in other similar applications. I haven't looked too deep yet, but is there a way to donate/tip you for this?
Yay glad it helped!!! Yeah I just felt like there was room for improvement on this and I was glad it provide something to the community!
I don’t have anything for tips, but I appreciate that! I’m actually mulling over starting a patreon for a “pro” version of this that would add features that the community’s requested that will take significant dev time (like Exif support, database support, gesture and time control, premise images etc). I’m thinking of offering it and the tiers would have video tutorials and access to the images, and eventually content packs. Stay tuned for that!
@@geektoolkit Sounds great, I definitely will! Thanks again!
found this video for making picture frame from old screens. Great job! would be great to add weather, date n location of picture shown.
Thanks! The pro version can read the exit data for location and even convert gps coordinates to location names, and she date and time. Weather I’m working on!
really great project. would be cool to have an OS image you can download and when you flash the PI it's just all set up with no command line needed. Also, I suppose you could sell some prebuilt or kit versions via a store so folks can get them with software already installed!
Thankyou! I actually had released version 1 like that. The challenge is that images go stale so quickly, and required me to host mutigigabyte files. It also takes a ton of time to update and compress an image vs just a hit release. Stale images are bad because they won’t include security updates. I’m trying this approach with hopes that it helps make it portable to other SBC such as orange pi and such. That being said, prebuilt setups via a store is on my list so that there’s an easy option!
@@geektoolkit ahh good point. perhaps you could have an image that automatically updates all packages on first boot? allowing you to host a single image for longer? great job
This is pretty damn neat,Reminds me of Wallpaper Engine,I guess I can take all my animated walls from W'E. test this out.
I also like the arcade marquees idea another commenter suggested for my Future DIY Arcade Machine.
I hadn’t thought of trying the WE wallpapers! I’ll give that a shot. I started out vertical to simulate my Comic con artwork frames and it’s expanded from there. I have a video hopefully goin yup tonight showing how I made the animated ones. I just think there’s apt of potential so glad to share it so others can try it and have fun :) Thankyou for the kind comment and your Future arcade machine already sounds Rad!
Great concept! Easy install! Question: Where do you go to get your art work? Any links you can share? Thanks!
Thankyou! Check the comment section under 'artist credit'...that'll get you some of these (and a ton more...they're basically artists I've found on Deviantart, or discovered at comic cons and then found their deviantart). Also I find if you check out displate, you can find great art that would fit on a wall, and then find out the artist name and find them on deviant art. Finally, sometimes I'll search for 1080x1920 'star wars' art, or similar (for portrait artwork the order of the resolution matters). I can then search for all sorts of sci fi fandoms that I enjoy. Hopefully that gets you started and helps you find out ideas.
Hi, great software! I'm using the DynaFrame 2 from github and was wondering why portrait videos do not play in portrait mode? Is that feature fixed on the Pro version? Thank you!
Pro uses a new video setup...in some ways its better, in some ways it's a challenge. Scaling for instance is different in pro, but rotation should match. The way pro works is it rotates the entire OS and then plays videos using VLC behind the scenes...you can simulate that to see if pro would fix the issue you're hitting using a normal build of raspbian, and if it works then pro would fix it. Know though that VLC's 'scaling' for fit,fill and such are not as robust as VLC, so that can cause issues for some
Epic project!
Thankyou!!! Wait till the next update…I’m hard at work on it
Amazing product! Precisely what people are asking for. Any thoughts on abandoning omxplayer for VLC? Bullseye seems to have.
Yep stay tuned! VLC didn’t support rotation on a pi so had to work some magic. New version coming very soon!
This is so awesome. Really awesome to see your passion on this project. You will have to excuse my ignorance. Can this be done on TVs and not monitors?
Thank you!! It works with TVs too! One quirk about TVs is that they have speakers, so if you are playing videos with sounds, then it can get distracting if you have videos with sounds. So may want to mute the TV unless the sound is desired
@@geektoolkit Awesome. So I would still use the pi hooked up to the TV and then OneDrive or Google Photos to access files?
Right now you can hook the pi to the TV. To access files you have to copy them to the pi pictures folder. If you know how to setup rclone (or follow a tutorial for it) then you can use that to sync photos to the “pictures” folder and then use google drive OneDrive etc. I’ll get a video of how to do this out after some fixes I’m working on (I’m adding NAS and usb support)
@@geektoolkit No hurry. I am not code tech savvy. lol Thank you so much for your time with replies.
@@travishogan5974 Of course! Thanks for the kind comments. This channel is my hobby, and I make it to help others. I learned what I know thanks to the community and I'm glad to give back. So glad to help!
First of all... I love what you are doing here! I'm a photographer and am looking for a solution to display my work as well as a lot of concept art from the games I play or my favorite movies. Any plans to add a "multi-panel" feature? I'm looking at mounting 3 to 5 displays all in portrait orientation (possibly different sized displays with the largest in the middle and smallest on the ends) and would LOVE to be able to display a single landscape-oriented image across all 3 (or 5). If I chop up my single image into pieces with the proper dimensions to fit onto their corresponding screens to recreate the correct overall image, is there a way to make sure those 3 pieces (or 5) will display at the same time... with synced up fading as well when I move to another "multi-panel" image or back to independent portrait-oriented images?
Hmm. I was looking at a “sync” function, but had thought about syncing playlists. I think what you’re suggesting is more powerful however. I have to rewrite the video playback, it’s a bit sloppy currently, after that I have to rethink playlists and will look into if I can do that. I think it would be a really beautiful setup
@@geektoolkit If you could add the feature I think it would allow for some pretty incredible setups. Here is a link to an example of what I would like to recreate... although my artwork would be mostly my own aviation photos and a lot of HALO-related concept art (love that game). www.dhgate.com/product/60-quot-x32-quot-canvas-art-print-5-panels/402795816.html#redirect_detail=WAP2PC
@@brandongriffin1714 Just letting you know I'm doing some finishing touches and considering this feature still. I love those multi piece wall pieces. One thing that I'm wondering your thoughts on...to do this may require a carefully curated folder where each 'piece' is named the same across the folders. So you'd have 1.jpg in say three folders maybe titled 'left, center, right' and then you'd tell one dynaframe to synce the other two to it (assuming 3 across for now). Then when the first one shows 1.jpg, it'd tell the other two to show 1.jpg...thus syncing them. I tried to come up with other ways, but haven't been successful. There is a slight possability of doing something where you just put a huge image in one and it' splits it, but that's a bit longer way off for now.
Great work!!! Only problem is that video should play full time, not defined with milliseconds.
I’ve got a feature on the backlog to enable that. I’ve had people argue passionately both ways!
Hi Joe! Great work! Is there a way to set a timer to shut the screen off during night time and turn it on in the morning? Will appreciate your reply!
Thank you! For this version you can use a home automation plug to turn off the monitor, or there are commands on the wiki on git that will let you do that. You can turn the pi off as well it just can hurt the sd card sometimes. I’m working on this for the pro version which I’ll announce soon, as it’s had several requests
Hi mate! Can you recommend good monitors/screen to display less glare images? I think the problem with these digital photo frames is the glare..
Love the work you have done, saved me lots of time making autoboot stuff.
I am having trouble getting a video to play though (mp4 and avi) and wondering if i'm missing something
Are you in bullseye by chance? They removed omxplayer out of Debian and broke a ton of stuff. I’m working on an update
@@geektoolkit yeah, would using a legacy pi os work?
@@GordieCavill Yeah if you drop down to Buster you should be fine. I (and others that make stuff for pis) are scrambling to figure out how to adapt...VLC, which they recommend..doesn't rotate or perform for me nearly as well, and doesn't have the scaling options. My next software revision will use VLC and some other hacks to make it work, but I'm still trying to figure out how to get back to parity. For now I've written off bullseye as alpha until things get better there
This is awesome! Would this run on a regular PC through linux?
If you compile Dynaframe 2 for x64 then yes.
This looks like it is EXACTLY what I have been looking for. My only question is can you set it to use something like google drive/onedrive/dropbox as the photo folder? I would love to be able to share photos with family by simply updating a shared folder on the web.
Glad you like it, there's an update video you'll definitely want to check out (I'll get it linked in the description). But YES! if you use Rclone you can sync things to the frame and get that functionality
This is awesome! The Wife loves it!
Thankyou, these are the best comments to me. I love when others build the projects and get to enjoy it! Especially with loved ones!
Awesome Work, Exactly what i wanted for my theater Room, Where can i download the Movie Posters both still and animated for the pi ? Subbed !!!
For posters I searched on Google image search and did them one by one. I think there are poster packs out there but I’m not sure where. For animated I searched TH-cam for 1080x1920 videos and found them. I have a terminator one and I believe there are a bunch of transformers ones
@@geektoolkit have you thought about selling the ones you make ??? i'd pay!?!?
I’d want the software to be a bit more stable, and I’d want to have a wooden frame around them to make them more robust. Also I’d like to add some features to make the. Easier to support. I appreciate the offer, but until I have a product I can be confident in, or find a manufacturer to help me out, I need to do more work first. I’d hold myself and my product to a high bar when moneys involved
very good work, thanks. I have a question; could ı use raspberry pi for 4k UHD video quality? or Do I need to use additional modules or software?
I haven't tried 4k myself, but those that have have all reported that the pi didn't have enough power to pull it off. I think we'll need something with more power to truly get this to work with 4k, or I'll have to try to figure out a way to optimize the code more. Showing a 4k image is one thing, and 4k video is another, but to actually manipulate/fade multiple 4k images in layers smoothly takes yet another level of processing which the pi 4 doesn't appear to have.
If you run it on a windows machine (You'd have to compile the source yourself from github) then it'd likely work.
It's already dynaframe3!!! That's what the github says... Talk about rapid development! Ok but seriously love the project and can't wait to build my dynaframe, I just got done watching the first video and was thinking of all the awesome things that could be added and done and then watched this video and said f* yeah!!
Lol! Yeah the 2/3 thing is a mess. I’ll get it sorted. First though there is some great feedback..I had not implemented samba shares, and I have a lot of NAS requests. Going to look into those and get some bug fixes in hopefully the next two weeks. Should be easy to update, I’m going to just make it a command line that wipes the old folder and dumps down the new one. I’ll work to backup the settings file. Let me know how your build goes, I’m excited that others are excited about this :)
Pretty sick dude. 👍
Thanks!! Did you see the follow up?! I got triple screen working!
you're adorable geek dude, thank you very much for your tutorial!
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Major props. With the PI 4 is it possible to split pictures with to two different monitors at the same time or just one? It would be interesting if certain notifications from home assistant can appear on the screen. For example if you have a security camera and it detects activity if it can provide a notification.
Thankyou! I am working on getting MQTT into it, which would allow us to send whatever we want from HA to it as a notification along the bottom (and I'll probably look to make that location configurable too). As far as splitting into two frames....I'm not sure...I have a pi4 now though and will try it! If it doesn't work I'll try to figure out if I can make that work. that'd be super cool :)
@@geektoolkit Please get his working with Home Assistant!!! That would be amazing. If you can, is there a way to get the Plex API working with this? There are a lot of people I know with smart frames on their wishlist this year, but they don't like using web apps that unrefined :( Nothing against you, it just spooks them. Using something like plex or jellyfin would make barrier to entry much, much easier.
@@ConnerHall Thankyou, glad you're excited...Home Assistant support is coming soon (it's partially there, but needs to be documented and demonstrated).
As far as plex/Jellyfin...I'm not sure what that would do or how that would work. This is a dynamic photo frame, and it's able to pull from a NAS, thumbdrive, local and show images/video files. I'm not clear how I'd use a plex api to enhance that...if you lay out the scenario for me I can try to see if I can alleviate the concerns.
This is an amazing work that I am looking for! I was wondering is it possible to directly contact you in regards to the digital frames?
Sure! The about in my TH-cam profile has an email. Please put “dynaframe” in the subject line
Great Stuff! I was curious if you were familiar with Digital Art from an NFT market and these Video Frames were capable of Displaying the different Art?
I wasn’t....just did a crash course. What format are they in?
@@geektoolkit it depends on the project, many still images as pngs, but also mp4 and gif for some of them
Wow this is pretty cool!! I'm going to build it.. does it support GIFs??
It doesn’t. I’ve looked into it but haven’t found a good way to support that yet. I’ve had a few requests but I’m not clear on where 1080p gifs are coming from...is that a common thing? This does support MP4 if you can convert them
Is it possible to display 4 separate images, spaced out, on a 3840x1100 4K screen? Perhaps on a Pi Zero 2? I have a RetroPie arcade cabinet I built and I would like to use a screen in the marquee. It is based off a Neo Geo MVS-4-25 ver3 cabinet, only scaled down 2/3rds. The marquee would have 4 placards showing the 4 games in the system. Since this cabinet runs RetroPie It would be cool if I could maybe get it to show the last 4 games played.
Very cool! My hat is off to ther master.
Thankyou! And thanks for your support, I"m a bit behind on my comments, but I see you've been helping me out and I appreciate the comments and support!
This Awesome and exactly what i had been looking for my photo frame. Is there a way to "Not Autostart" this application on the boot? I have multiple things on the pi like magic mirror and this photo frame, and i would like to choose what i start with.
Hi thanks! Sure the autostart was just a convenience feature in the script, if you look at the install.sh you’ll see I add it to autostart, you can disable that by deleting it and then run it by going to the Dynaframe directory and calling ./Dynaframe
Great Project! Planning to reuse a 14 inch notebook display. Do you have a recommendation which Raspberry Pi is minimum needed for a 1280x800px Display? I consider buying a Pi 3A+ (small, Quadcore, need only WiFi). But not sure if 512MB RAM is enough?
I've used a pi3A+ but you have to make sure the images are scaled down. If you send a 4k image to it it'll try to scale it down, but the pixel data alone will likely take down the pi. If you can spring for the 3B+ you'll be much more 'future proof' as I may add features in the future that may increase the memory usage. I'm working hard to bring it down but I don't control the usage at this point, most of it is from the framework I'm building on (avalonia). The expect it to go down in the next release.
a very good program, but it would not be bad if you could set the switching times between the pictures differently and not just a fixed time delay for all- that would be pefect.. maybe you can include this option.
Hey Joe, love this, trying to purpose a pi screen into my PC case, does this happen to support GIFs? Also, any word on it working with a Pi Zero? The new Zero 2 is a huge bang for the buck and has the processor of the 3.
It doesn't support gifs currently. I'm working on animated gifs for it's successor but even that isn't baked yet and may not ship till Feb. I haven't heard back on if anyone can get it working on a pi zero 2...I know the pi zero definitely doesn't work. This actually takes quite a bit of power due to the layering, webserver, transitions and a few other things inside so it'll be interesting to see how the pi zero 2 does. I'll have to order one when supplies aren't so crazy :)
@@geektoolkit Gotcha! I will give your program a shot with the Zero 2 Overclocked a little and let you know how it goes! Do you have a way to stay posted for the gif update?
Thankyou! Please subscribe and look for an announce of “Dynaframe Pro”. That will have info for the next gen of this project
Hey Joe! Love what you’ve done to Dynaframe! I just finished setting mine up but I’m having a little trouble with adding videos. My setup is a Rpi4B 2GB RAM. I am trying to add 4K30 drone footage but cant seem to work it out. Not sure if the pi just cant handle the 4K playback, or if I’m doing something wrong.
I was also having some trouble with the directory’s. Is it as simple as adding pictures to the folder and and choosing the folder on the phone/computer when ready?
Lastly, I was wondering if it was possible to add video capability to the file uploads on the website. Right now I can do any picture in my camera roll, but no videos
I appreciate your time and forgive me for my lack of computer literacy!
Thankyou! I'm glad you're liking it so far!
Dynaframe currently uses OMXPlayer for video playback. if you setup bullseye, they removed omxplayer, so they basically broke it (and alot of other programs). The only fix right now is to install buster or a previous raspberry pi build that omxplayer works on).
For the playlists it's as simple as creating folders in the videos folder, and then putting files in there. If the file is playable it should play one after another with the settings you specify.
One quick check is to just try to run omxplayer and play the video. The other possability is that OMXPlayer can't play the file format.
For uploads, video uploads aren't possible in the current build.
Finally, and probably the most exciting..I'm hard at work (and have been for months) making a 'pro' version of this that will switch the video playback to VLC, allow for multiple video and file uploads, include instructions and more. I'm targeting a January release...I was actually working on the release video when I got hit by the 'bullseye' change that broke things, so Working on that now. Also that'll be an image based release so it'll be super simple to get up and running!
@@geektoolkit I very much appreciate the quick reply! Right now the default media player for the pi is VLC and unfortunately I don’t think it can open the 4K videos.
I am definitely interested in the Pro version and I look forward to the release! This is my very first computer project ever lol so I am learning as I go. Thank you for making things as simple as possible for newbies like myself !
And also one last question! What would you recommend for the smoothest transitions between photos? I’m at 30000ms at the moment but it’s fairly choppy. Photos are 4K, so it’s possible the Pi is limited in the smoothness of the transitions but I was just curious to see what you do!
@@mattnardo9818 The next version will be even simpler...it'll be 'write image', boot...' and then the connection to wifi won't require a keyboard :)
@@mattnardo9818 If you're running 4k, it's going to be choppy. Even on a pi4 8 gig I'm seeing chop. I've heard 500ms transitions on 4k smooth out a little just because it's fast enough to get by. If you try to go long there's just not enough power currently. I'm working to see if I can get there. Make sure you don't have VNC running and turn off logging to try to help. In the end though it just kinda is what it is at 4k. One thing I try to do is scale photos down to 1080p, then put them on a 4k monitor with the pi in 480p mode. sometimes the upscaler in the tv can make it look 'good enough'. I'm hoping that next version of pi can do smoother 4k, or that I find some way to smooth it from my side, but no luck yet.
great job!
Thankyou!
Looks really cool....I will have to try this mainly because I haven't been any to find any solutions with fades! Can you have it play music with the slideshow? Currently using a Micca Speck G2
It doesn't support background music...yet. But it's something I can look into. If you play a video it'll paly the audio, but that would require an offline slideshow maker to make things happen which kinda defeats the purpose. I have a few other tasks to work on (videos don't fade and are kinda jarring) before I look into that, but I'll do what I can. the codes available for anyone to work on as well :)
@@geektoolkit thanks for the reply back. I know you mentioned the fades are better on Pi4....im on Pi3 and the fades are clicky. Is that cuz teh Pi3 isn't powerful enough to handle the fades? Like in the big screen you have up front, the fades are fast and smooth. Is that only achievable with the Pi4?
@@vice86 Yeah, fast fades require a pi4. The center screen is actually using a PC. The left and right..one is a pi3A and one is a pi4 (Pi3A and pi3 are similar in perofrmance...the A is just smaller/cleaner for uses like this). Sadly if you're looking for a smooth fade on a pi3 I recommend upping it to 10 seconds or so. Honestly though, I'd try the 30 second fade (with like a 60 second or longer between) and see what you think. You may find that you like it...all of mine are set to that now that I've had it running because it looks so dang neat. Depends on your use case.
This is amazing!!! Is it open source? Could someone use your software to create hardware for commercial purpose?
Thankyou! Please contact me via my about page for commercial stuff, there’s some things in the code you’d not want to release and some features that’d need to be added to make it a product. I’m investigating some options but would love a hardware partner or collab.
I really think this would be an awesome gift for senior citizens. Is there a easy to link this to a cloud sharing service like Google drive to update photos? I know this is geared to using home assistant.
Actually I don't mean to gear this towards home assistant at all! I just want to make sure it can be controlled via Home Automation because it's handy. I agree with the Senior Citizen aspect, and I have some work I'm doing to make it easy to get 'rclone' setup. Then you could have the panel at a parent/family members house, and manage it remotely using just about any cloud sharing system (Google drive, dropbox, onedrive etc). My list of features is some bugfixes I have to do (I already have some minor issues to work on) and then to do another release with gestures / Rclone (If I can pull off Rclone in a safe way). The other option will be to teach people how to use Rclone and then they can setup frames and mail them off. It'll happen...just need a bit more time :)
Hi. I'm interested in making one of these for my man cave. Unfortunately I don't have any spare screens, so I've been looking for a good/cheap one to use. Is there a particular screen that works better than others? I mean I know some have poor viewing angles if you aren't directly in front, I have no idea which ones those are though. Do you have any recommendations? That lg monitor in your old vid is not really in stock anymore.
Ah good point I need to come up with a new one to recommend. IPS monitors work best, and I feel that 1080p is plenty. I have seen some from offerup or used pretty inexpensively ($50-60 for 22-24”). I’ll try to find a new reference though that’s good feedback!
@@geektoolkit I picked up a really nice 32" led for $70. I know you said buy ips, but this was too good to pass up and I'm too excited to put this together. Hopefully the led still looks good on the wall.
@@6Rudolph6Shitler6 I think you're going to be really impressed. I have a 32" that I don't think is ips and the images looked stunning on it because the size makes them like movie posters, and moving images look even better. Let me know when you get everything together how things look. Check out the 2.05 release on the github...it may be a better release as far as features and it has a slick new UI!
Great work, looks very nice :-) I wonder if its possible to use a NAS as source for the content.
Thank you! I don’t have a Nas so need to look into it. Can you tell me how you access your NAS from a pi? Is it over Samba? NFS? I’m hoping to find an easy way (and safe) way to have it point to a NAS
@@geektoolkit I use both Samba and NFS to access my NAS so from my view it dosent matter :-) Keep up the great work.
OMG! Amazing work, bud! Ran out and purchased a rpi just for this. Also have the same request to pull images from a network share. Or set as the image source. Hope it’s not too difficult. Again, thanks for the hard work.
Good news! If you check the GitHub releases those features have been added! If you go to the latest prerelease I think you’ll find a lot to like. You can add your own sources, and if you setup the samba mapping you can pull from network as well!
@@geektoolkit Is there a file that we need to edit to add the NAS connection(s)? Been digging through your GitHub site to see what needs to be modified to add the network share. Thanks in advance. Will keep looking and reply if I find something.
Hi, great project, was exactly what I was looking for to set up a digital bulletin board in my classroom. Im having an issue installing and running DynaFrame though. I get through the setup script with no problems that I can see (no errors or warnings as your setup script ran). When the Pi restarts nothing seems to happen (no sign that Dynaframe is running, no access to the setup webpage etc). The Pi seems to have rebooted back to its normal desktop. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Please check the logs directory. Also please make sure there is a folder in the pictures directory and an image in it like a .jpg just to get it started. I have a new version coming imminently to make this all easier
where did you find those animated movie posters? or video movie posters? those are amazing!!
Thankyou! Most of them I’ve made. I have a video coming up on how, but if you look into Cinemagraph or PLOTAGRAPHs you’ll get the gist. I loved making them, but then wanted to show them off...this this project was born
Looks like an awesome project! Have you tested with a Pi Zero W? Doesn't seem to launch after reboot on the Pi Zero W, but does with the Pi 4.
Thankyou! It doesn't work with a pi zero. It simply doesn't have enough power to push the avalonia framework I use. Even a pi3 can struggle at times with transitions. The new version I just released I require a pi4 to keep things smooth
@@geektoolkit Good to know! With the chip shortage, just trying to use what I have on hand! Thanks for the quick reply!
Of course! Yeah the ship shortage is a mess. I’m looking to acquire some alternatives like rock pis from eBay to see if I can get a broader spec supported. When I started this years ago I had no idea it’s get so popular, or that we’d have a frieking pandemic :)
Question to ask… at moment I am using one monitor - worked with Web UI linked which was cool…. What if I add other monitor (liked you did) does that mean other web UI for this OR can multi monitors to only one web to controlled?
I don't support mulit monitor with one pi, and likely won't be able to. I require a pi per screen, and then each pi serves up its own webUI to control it (the nice part of this is it makes it VERY scaleable as each screen has it's onw processing system)
hello sir when i am installing this my pi says dynaframe2 did not installed properly and the zip file also not unzipped please guide me through this
Hi, really nice, is it possible to add a clock or a light sensor to work similar to an amazon echo?
I have a clock setting..you can set the font and size of it. When you say light sensor, do you mean to have it turn on or off? or something else?
Did you have to attach a Pi3 to every screen or how are you outputting the photos to the displays?
A pi is connected to each display. I’m working on using both outputs of a pi4 but that’s not ready yet
I hope I didnt missed it in the video, but can you loop videos?
Would a fast solution be to make a folder with just one video or make the duration between slides really long? would that just loop the video for a while?
you could put one video in a folder and it'll keep playing it over and over, there may be a break in the middle. Can you describe the scenario of what you're trying to do? You're the third person this month that has asked for this...omxplayer which is what this is built on can loop videos quite easily (there's a loop param). If I understand why people are asking for this perhaps I can build a feature but it seems like this is overkill to simply play a video forever.
Woow this is pretty great for a future project of mine! My dream is to live in a bus for a few years with my girlfriend. I would love to put some 'smart picture frames' on the walls. I was planning to do it from scratch. But this will help a lot. What I would like is having multiple pictures 'frames' of us in themes that can change every season. Like still images on the wall that I can manage from a browser. I would put a sensor and connect them to my RP Gpio pins, so if you stand still and looking to the still images it would move like in Harry potter. I would love to have some power saving modes. That if I am not home it would go in a hybrid power off state. And that It would wake up by a home assistant or moving detecting sensors. I will remember this channel if I would build my bus in a few years, when I have enough money and if its legal to park my bus in the backyard of my grandparents. Lets hope 😃
Most of those are features I have or will have soon! I love the seasons changing idea! The magic mirror episode I have explains how to do power saving via PIR but I hope to have it in by then
I really look forward to it! Fantastic initiative 😃!!!
Hey Joe! Neat application. This vid is from 2020. Is this the latest?
Thankyou! There is a video for Dynaframe pro, and then a followup to that. I should have another one out this month as even those are a bit behind where we are. The patreon has grown well and we've been doing updates and features monthly, it's come a long way and has good momentum. For the pro it's patreon supported but for the free open source versions, what you see here is the latest, as that is now community driven.
@@geektoolkit sounds good. I think I’ll dive in headfirst! I saw that the best HW was Raspberry Pi 4. Is that still the case? Do you have a Patreon link?
Sure! Patreon is at: www.patreon.com/Geektoolkit
The pi 3b+ will work but 4 is recommended if you can find one. Supplies are supposed to start flowing for pi4s soon!
Nice project! Would this work on a Pi Zero?
Thankyou! Sadly it won’t. Pi zeros don’t have the power for the framework I’m using or the memory for this. This runs not only a media and layout engine, but also a webserver. Even a pi3 isn’t great for it in later builds where I am adding effects
@@geektoolkit thank you for your response. I hope to try it soon.
I'm trying to create a family picture frame that randomly plays videos and photos.
Do the videos play sound?
Is there a way to turn off full screen mode? I have a ton of photos with all different aspect ratios.
On Dynaframe pro you can play with or without sound, and you can stretch, scale, or keep the same aspect ratio. You can choose to BlurBox the background, pick a dominant color or just have black. It’s Patreon supported but for $5 you’d have the software and can choose to stay on or not
Had a quick question. I'm actually looking for something like this for another mod im working on. With this can you say have one image and stay like that for as long as i want. Then cycle to another image via bluetooth keyboard or something
I believe so if you pause it using the webUI and then use the right/left arrow keys. There’s also an API documented on the GitHub for sending http requests so control it
This is great. Is there a way to update these remote from another location?
You can upload to the frame via the webpage in the recent builds (2.18 has been stable for many). Also you can use rclone which opens up a ton of possibilities for syncing cloud drives to the device. Or a NAS with fstab and mounting a directory (many NAS devices have a cloud or remote upload system it seems nowadays)
great Project and looking forward. actually i bought a rasbery pi just to try it.
I have issues that it shows the it downloads, but after the shut down nothing happens and I can't open ./Dynaframe at all, any ideas why?
thanks
do you have photos in the pictures folder? Which version did you run? The github has a 2.19 that's a bit more updated. Also if there's a log please check it it may help to understand what's going on.
Hi. Can I have it showing both videos and images from the same folder? So for instance I have a folder with like five images an one 30 second video in my folder. Will the images show for the amount of seconds you set? and will the video play for the full length of it before fading over to an image again?
I am not sure if the 2.19 build on GitHub has the “play full video” feature but if not Dynaframe pro (launching in the next few weeks) WILL have that feature. As it stands it’ll play videos and photos same folder it just will cut the video short of the transition time is less than the full video length
@@geektoolkit Cool thanks👍. Looking forward to it.
Is there any product out there that is like a transparent film that makes the display look like a matte finish instead of glaring video? It would be really a great feature if you could make the pictures look like works of art instead of just huge digital pictures.
Possibly. Right now my investigation is in being able to control the backlight of the monitor. I've seen that used on the Samsung Frame that I have, and it, combined with an ambient light sensor, can be fairly convincing in that it can give the color clarity of the monitor without appearing overly 'lit' . That way if you dim the lights it adjusts on the fly. Thats a tough problem to solve though. I hadn't thought about a film, I'll have to look into that...it seems like a cool solution in that it'd likely be removable if it doesn't work, inexpensive if it does, and low tech/easy to add (vs. requiring soldering and tearing the screen apart). Thanks for that suggestion I'll look into it!
I've set up a pic folder that auto updates from an Instagram feed however Dynaframe doesnt seen to auto update its shuffle playlist when a new file is added to the folder its reading out of, is there a setting I am missing? Or should I reload the app periodically with a crontab command? What command should I be using to launch the App? any help would be appreciated!
The app installs to the home folder and I believe is .\Dynaframe to launch it. You’ll want to restart for the non pro version because it doesn’t update the file list till it’s played all the way through.
Thanks again. I tried it out. Just one thing. How do i deactivate the screen saver when the programm is already running?
Sorry should’ve mentioned that! Escape key. I’m updated versions control+c will do it but you have to go to the GitHub to get those
Ok, i just disabled screen banking via the raspi-config. Works perfekt.
Oh sorry that screensaver!!! I thought you meant the app! Yes raspi-config is great
I'm trying to use my NAS for one of the folders. Mounting it in the command line has been a challenge. I do have it mounted in the GUI, but that doesn't seem to matter to DF. Does this sound correct?
DF needs a path to the folder. I mount it on the command line and then use fstab to get it to stick on reboot. I’ve not tried through the UI. How are you mounting it in the GUI? I haven’t tried that
here is a great idea! how about scheduling. and playing different playlists at different times of the day or week or even month. say I want to display marvel images Mon Wed Fri Sun and Dc images on Tue Thur Sat. or even into the future and including scheduling for holiday images or specific start dates.
I love the idea! Currently I'm doing this through home assistant...I use it's scheduler. I've been asked for features to have it turn on/off automatically at certain times, so I'll add this to that list if I can figure out how to get not only a scheduler in, but a good webUI to control it.
@@geektoolkit then one more idea. Frames! select-able frames (single screen broken down into parts and showing different items in different section.) like a large single tv screen then have video in upper corner then a still in the back ground. and then even more adventures, ability to customize those frame locations. lol this is a great program with lots of potential! ALSO today I Wanted to see how well this would run on a raspberry pi zero w 2. and it works except the pi is only 512k and @ 5 frames per second you might as well turn off the transitions. but the flip from one image to the next is fast and looks great! thought i would pass that on to you if you haven't tried it yet.