Samsung photo frame control with download ability for Raspberry Zero

A Solution for Samsung photo frame based on Gekkio/samsung-photo-frame-ctrl The intended use is to use Raspberry Pi Zero W in combination with Samsung photo frame to show photos downloaded from the Internet.

The main differences are:

• Added support for second version (firmware 10.08) of SPF-107H.
• Implemented logging
• Added downloading with Curl (Pycurl)
• Added reading from a local folder
• Added PIL for manipulating with pictures
• Added config.py for additional settings
• Added simple gallery with download or local folder option
• Added support for Neopixel Led strip as background ambient light
• Implemented CLI
• Added pluggy plugin system and developed few additional plugins

Features

• The behavior can be configured via config.py

• frame_ctrl.py

  • If the photo frame is in mass storage mode, the program will change it into mini display mode.
  • If the photo frame is in mini display mode, the program will send the jpeg that was specified as the program argument to the photo frame. The JPEG must be prescaled to the exactly correct size!

• show-image.py

  • Resize and center the image specified as the program argument and call frame_ctrl to show the image
  • Can show text over the image

• slideshow.py

  • Fully pluggable slideshow for all supported frames
  • Dummy frame plugin for development
  • Plugin for background LED strip (Neopixel)
  • Plugin for Clocks (shows big clocks at the frame screen)
  • Plugin for Night Mode (Leds are turned off, lower contrast and warmer colors during night)
  • Plugins for image sources:
    • From a local folder
    • From a generic URL
    • From Artsy.net (requires user account and credentials)
    • From Google Photo (currently requires Google Cloud Account)

• txt2img.py

  • Converts text to image. Output can be piped to show-image.py

Supported photo frames

• SPF72H
• SPF75H/76H
• SPF83H
• SPF85H/86H
• SPF85P/86P
• SPF87H old
• SPF105P
• SPF107H
• SPF107H old
• SPF700T

Installation

• clone the repository
• create venv (python -m venv .venv)
• install the main package (.venv/bin/pip install -e samsungframe)
• create, check, add or modify settings.local.toml and .secrets.toml

Usage

sudo python3 ./slideshow.py

Show IP address(es) with background image: python getips.py | python txt2img.py -bi res\wifibg.jpg -o - | python show-image.py

On Raspberry Pi Zero W

• Install the latest 64bit Raspbian Lite, boot your RPi:
• mkdir /home/pi/frame
• sudo apt install python3 pip git
• python3 -m venv /home/pi/frame/.venv
• git clone https://github.com/bero158/samsung-photo-frame-ctrl /home/pi/frame/samsung-photo-frame-ctrl
• try /home/pi/frame/.venv/bin/python3 /home/pi/frame/samsung-photo-frame-ctrl/slideshow.py
• add /home/pi/frame/.venv/bin/python3 /home/pi/frame/samsung-photo-frame-ctrl/slideshow.py & to /etc/rc.local before 'exit 0' row

In default settings there's a remote controller available through web at port 8088