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The original was posted on /r/nextcloud by /u/jeppester on 2025-04-22 19:03:13+00:00.

I had an idea to make a combined digital photo frame and a home assistant control panel out of a tablet. My hope was that combining the use cases would make the device more useful. (I had doubts that a home assistant panel would get much use).

After some research I landed on the approach of:

• Using Fully Kiosk Browser with Home Assistant

• Setting the screen saver to a - yet to be developed - Photo Frame URL

Two months of spare time work later, here’s Photo Frames.

Features:

• Pick album and settings and you’ll get a sharable URL

• Choose image rotation settings

• Decide whether or not to show the date (month and year)

• Generate QR codes for frame URLs - to easily load frames on devices that are not signed into NextCloud

• Use your Collaborative albums to co-create albums with your relatives/friends/colleagues and share synchronized photo frames.

This is my first nextcloud app, so though I’ve attempted to test it thoroughly, and though I’m an experienced web dev, I do have my doubts that everything will just work for everyone. Let me know if you run into issues.

Otherwise, let me know what you think :-)

Kind regards

Jesper