I recall thinking these were cool, then they were lame, now I'm old and I think they're ok again (just visiting someone with a nice 9 inch or so frame)
Anyone know if there's anything in say the 14 inch range which is nice?
I know you can buy 1440p 14 inch displays for about 100 according to a bargain I saw this week.
I figure something is going to be at least 200.
Anyone still rocking one?
(Yes, I do have a raspberry pi spare but that will look so dinky with the mini HDMI cable in the side….)
I did expect this.
Anyone know if there's anything in say the 14 inch range which is nice?
its how you use it that matters or so she said…
My wife did ask me for 9" and to make it hurt, so I put it in 3 times and slapped her.
Pretty crass mate.
Quite a few on Amazon
https://www.amazon.com.au/AILRINNI-Digital-Photo-Frame-Built…
thinking these were cool, then they were lame,
They aren't cool / popular and never will be, since they are just single use devices that perform a single function and can't be repurposed for other stuff since they lack HDMI inputs. Will end up being e-waste once you're bored of looking at it.
At least a portable LCD monitor will be useful for work and DIY rasp Pi projects.
Also, If you plug in a Chromecast / Amazon Fire Stick into a TV or monitor you can set your photos as a screen saver, this might be a better way to repurpose old displays that are lying around into a frame.
I have a 14" 1080p spare monitor I could consider using. (portable) but I think to keep the cables neat I'd need right angle cables.
I wondered maybe I could use a REAL picture frame and wedge it in there to hide the cables makes it look nicer?
Right angle plugs work well. I use one on my TV to reduce the force on the socket.
You could build a wide frame to hide the HDMI port.
I used an old tablet (that I don't use anymore as they were unbearably slow and outdated), there are some free apps that you can install. I plugged it with a smart plug, and it works surprisingly well.
The only tablet I have is 10" ipad and it's ok but it's kinda too new for it.
Meta Portal
Android tablet + Fotoo app
problem solved.
I actually have a spare Android tablet, I forgot about that.
I would have a look at the Alexa Show 15? does the photo and can also do video and audio
I'm sitting next to an Alexa right now and the OS isn't ideal and it's outright buggy.
To be clear, I'm diagnosing in laws technical problems overseas and I LITERALLY have tabs open on this.
https://www.reddit.com/r/amazonecho/comments/o19mw2/echo_sho…
I tried with Alexa echo 8 & so buggy I gave up
Something like a Google Nest Hub because it's easy to access content. The photo frames were annoying because they used to have rubbish displays and weren't easy to update/upload.
Samsung The Frame
Aura ones are good
I received a “Frame” at Christmas and it's great, comes in different sizes and available through a few stockists.
https://frameo.net
I would consider using a device that hooks up to the portable screen you have - the reason being that you could use google photos to cycle new photos through it automatically instead of having to manually add new photos to the frame.
I have a google home hub and configured it show photos from an album in Google Photos. I then have the album configured to add new photos of family members - using face detection.
So basically whenever I take new photos of family, it gets auto added to that album, then the Google home hub takes random photos from that album, including new photos as they are added - all automatically.
Giggidy