How To Make A WiFi Cloud Base Picture Frame

How To Make A WiFi Cloud Base Picture

Frame

Before you start, you need to have a Raspiberry Pi, and a screen which you can get on Taobao.

Okay, let’s start!!!!

1. install rclone

Curl https://rclone.org/install.sh | sudo bash

2. config rclone

rclone --version rclone config

3. create a folder

cd Pictures mkdir picframe

4. sync pictures

rclone sync picframe: picframe /home/pi/Pictures

5. create sh for sync pictures

sudo nano Get_pictures.sh #!/bin/sh

if pidof -o %PPID -x \ fi

exit 1

exit

rclone sync picframe:picframe /home/pi/Pictures/picframe

chmod +x Get_pictures.sh

6. check Get_pictures.sh by run it

./Get_pictures.sh

7. use crontab to let cron entry run the Get_pictures.sh every 1 minute

crontab -e <1>

*/1 * * * * /home/pi/Get_pictures.sh >/dev/null 2>&1 # 重要：这里建议同步分钟数>照片张数x 5

8. install fbi

sudo apt-get install fbi

# use fbi slide pictures every 5 seconds

fbi -a -t 5 -T 2 –noverbose /home/pi/Pictures/picframe/*

9. create fbi_start.sh

sudo nano fbi_start.sh

#!/bin/bash

# 运行fbi每5秒切换照片

sudo fbi -a -t 5 -T 1 --noverbose /home/pi/Pictures/picframe/*

sudo chmod +x fbi_start.sh

10. set up autostart for fbi_start.sh

cd /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE-pi sudo nano autostart # add command at the end /home/pi/fbi_start.sh

#!/bin/bash

# 查询fbi进程ID, 用sudo kill ID来结束fbi ps -aux | grep -i fbi # sudo kill `pgrep -f \# /home/pi/fbi_start.sh

# 运行fbi每5秒切换照片

sudo fbi -a -t 5 -T 1 --noverbose /home/pi/Pictures/picframe/* #!/bin/sh

if pidof -o %PPID -x \ fi

rclone sync picframe:picframe /home/pi/Pictures/picframe sudo kill `pgrep -f \exit 1

/home/pi/fbi_start.sh

exit