Photo frame to display photos from the NAS
Hello everyone,
About a year ago, I realized that we have so many family photos on our NAS that we barely see them in our everyday life.
I thought it would be nice to have rotating photos on a photo frame in our living room. I looked everywhere and couldn't find any decent solution.
Most products don't support NAS integration — you need to load the photos onto an SD card manually. Or send a new photo each time via Bluetooth from your phone. Nearly everything else wants you to upload your photos to their cloud, which defeats the whole point of having a NAS.
I just wanted to configure the rotation once and forget about it — being surprised each day by a new photo from a predefined set of albums (mine and my wife's).
I also wanted an E-Ink display, so it looks more like a picture than a screen glowing on the wall at night.
After a long search with no satisfying results, I ended up building exactly that for us — and it's been working great! I need to polish it and it will have a nice web UI and bunch of useful features.
When I mentioned it to a few co-workers, they were genuinely interested in having something like this too. That made me wonder if this is a wider problem. I'd love to know if anyone else has faced the same thing — did you find a solution, or just live with it?
If there's enough interest, I'd love to take this project further and make it something others can enjoy too.
Either way, I'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments. And if this is something you'd potentially buy for your home — I'm collecting early interest below.