https://github.com/bean5/raspi-photoviewer-sync

I built this to automate syncing images to a photo viewer I made. It leverages Dropbox for hosting, but curl/wget for obtaining download instructions. A previous version used rsync over SSH for syncing, but was not super-helpful to general populous. The photoviewer I built was powered by a rasperry-pi.
https://github.com/bean5/raspi-photoviewer-sync

bean5 photo-viewer raspberry-pi rsync ssh syncing

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I built this to automate syncing images to a photo viewer I made. It leverages Dropbox for hosting, but curl/wget for obtaining download instructions. A previous version used rsync over SSH for syncing, but was not super-helpful to general populous. The photoviewer I built was powered by a rasperry-pi.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/bean5/raspi-photoviewer-sync
• Owner: bean5
• Created: 2020-01-24T21:03:45.000Z (almost 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-05-03T17:48:19.000Z (7 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-05-03T19:39:00.777Z (7 months ago)
• Topics: bean5, photo-viewer, raspberry-pi, rsync, ssh, syncing
• Language: Shell
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• Size: 7.81 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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Syncing Slideshow for Raspberry Pi: A Dropbox public sync work-around

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# Preface

Note: This is deprecated in favor of chromecast album sharing--at least until I feel like adding the ability to share video. But the 4k chromecast that is about to come out might have that as well--not sure if it has it for screensaver mode, though. We will see.

 

 A quick way to share dropbox folders with a remote device for use as a slideshow. For example, sharing public links to zip files with a raspberry pi that polls for new data.

 

 This bypasses the need for Dropbox syncing on the raspberry pi. Dropbox doesn't work on ARM processors, making work-arounds like this kinda necessary.

# Introduction

A quick way to share dropbox folders with a remote device for use as a slideshow. For example, sharing public links to zip files with a raspberry pi that polls for new data.

This bypasses the need for Dropbox syncing on the raspberry pi. Dropbox doesn't work on ARM processors, making work-arounds like this kinda necessary.

# Install

Docker support may come later. For now, to install, place the contents of this somewhere on your raspberry pi. As root, cd into this folder and run the following: `./install.sh`. If you want to specify that it store files on an external device you can use the equivalent of `./install /dev/sda1/`. This will set up `.bashrc` to call the donwloader which will loop in the background.

# ToDo Items

Of course, this project could be improved. Following are some ways.

* Ability to dockerize the downloader and the fbi viewer

* Ability to remove files via remote command

* Ability to switch to a movie mode

* Ability to switch between random vs. ordered image viewing

* An uninstall file

O, this can be simplified down to to something of a cron job. The downloader will call reboot if necessary. Really, the crux of this is that fbi is run upon login to make the raspberry pi just work upon boot.

# A Note

This program attempts to download a new version of itself after running. Of course, if git is possible, then that can be used. But since wget was the dependency of choice here, I continued with it to keep things light-weight, simple, and less dependent. Really, I'm hoping Dropbox comes out with ARM support sooner than later. It would deprecate a lot of this quite rapidly.