Re: Controllable Digital Picture Frames

[ddl@danlan.*com (Dan Lanciani)]

In article <slrnfmt0ur.25er.wblock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, wblock@xxxxxxxxxxx (Warren Block) writes:

| Digital picture frames could be very useful as annunciators if a host
| computer could at least tell them "switch to picture x now".  Even
| better would be the ability to download a new image and display it
| immediately.  Think of it as a slow frame buffer.
|
| There are now 15" versions, and even those little keychain 1" displays
| might be useful.
|
| Web searching shows that the documents on most frames are unhelpful or
| nonexistent.

Wow.  I was just about to post the same question.  Even in cases where
the manual is online it isn't clear the devices would do what we want.

In order to do something similar with a Roku's picture browser I have
hacked Samba to invoke a process to update JPEG image files when a
client performs a directory search of the containing directory.  I
believe a similar approach might work with the picture frames in round
robin mode, but of course it depends on how they cache, and in any
case it is a kludge.

				Dan Lanciani
				ddl@danlan.*com