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Feature requests & roadmap / Re: Flickr simplicity screensaver on a custom picture folder

« Last post by posde on Today at 09:22:40 am »

I don't think there is a need to create a copy. Mount it as lmce share, put a softlink to the real pictures, and UpdateMedia should find them, add them to the list, and give you the option to select them from web admin.

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Feature requests & roadmap / Re: Flickr simplicity screensaver on a custom picture folder

« Last post by phenigma on Today at 06:44:31 am »

The specific way your wanting to interact is something I've wanted as well but not possible currently the way lmce deals with media.  Posde's solution is the best at the moment, put a copy of each picture you want shown in the public structure that lmce would create on your new share.  Or copy those pics to the picture folder on the core.  There is no way to differentiate media when ignoring a folder tree.  All or nothing is how it works when lmce indexes a share (depending on public/private structure on setup). 

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Feature requests & roadmap / Re: Flickr simplicity screensaver on a custom picture folder

« Last post by posde on Today at 06:31:00 am »

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What do you mean to fill picture branch only?

When you specify a storage space to have the LinuxMCE structure, LinuxMCE creates the directories that it wants to see, ie. public/data/video,audio,pictures etc. - In your case, you would create a softlink from the picture subdirectory to your existing photo directory. That way, you have access to your photos in LinuxMCE, without cluttering LinuxMCE with additional media files you have laying around outside of the LinuxMCE structure.

And instead of adding all files to the screensaver which is rarely wanted, you'd just the select the ones you want in the photo part of web admin.

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Users / Re: Analogue Door Phone

« Last post by Garbui on Today at 02:40:09 am »

Did you resolve this issue, Garbui? I'm considering installing a Helios 2n myself and I'd like to know if this is a common issue and how to resolve it in case it happens to me too. Or whether I should just avoid this model altogether.

Hi Jansen,
Short answer is no, I didn't end up going in this direction for the time being. This was mainly to do with the design of our new house and amount of foot traffic along the busy road. I did purchase an ATA but have not tested it with the PSTN version of the 2N. I instead used a generic RFID card reader and Grandstream camera with SIP and alarm functionality which is registered both as an advanced IP camera and as a SIP extension (normal phone extension) and I have it programmed to allow door opening over DTMF from any registered phone.

My plan ultimately is to have the doorbell button on the RFID access control panel to trigger a sensor based event using a GC100 which shows the camera feed on orbiters then the user can decide whether to dial the camera SIP extension and open the door.

If you do want more info on the 2N (bearing in mind it is an older PSTN version) I am happy to spend some time to test things further if you like?

Garath

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Feature requests & roadmap / Re: Flickr simplicity screensaver on a custom picture folder

« Last post by tompin2 on Today at 01:23:28 am »

If you add a share point with the LMCE directory structure, and only have the picture branch filled, all the other media files would be ignored. Works nicely for me.

Thanks Posde for your reply!!. but if I do this, I would need to change the structure of the picture folder as it is, would need to move the pictures to the picture file, and also, would need to select the pictures every time I upload a new one.  I was thinking that it would be nice to have a seamless way to add pictures to a sharepoint  and lmce picks them up randomly, just like it does on Flickr.
What do you mean to fill picture branch only?

I would add the share as public and block update media from scanning the folders you don't want scanned. 

  Phenigma, how can you block selective folders?, sounds interesting.  But In my case, a folder is a date, and everything is mixed up on that date, movies taken and pictures), so how would LMCE know to act only on pictures and discard videos?.

What I do right now is to use on family days is to use the PhotoStation and it would play random pics and videos using the firefox.  But Flickr on mce is more nice, clean.

Thanks again for the info!!!..

T

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Feature requests & roadmap / Re: Flickr simplicity screensaver on a custom picture folder

« Last post by phenigma on May 22, 2018, 06:28:59 pm »

I would add the share as public and block update media from scanning the folders you don't want scanned. 

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Feature requests & roadmap / Re: Flickr simplicity screensaver on a custom picture folder

« Last post by posde on May 22, 2018, 06:01:41 pm »

If you add a share point with the LMCE directory structure, and only have the picture branch filled, all the other media files would be ignored. Works nicely for me.

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Feature requests & roadmap / Flickr simplicity screensaver on a custom picture folder

« Last post by tompin2 on May 22, 2018, 05:18:18 pm »

Hi,

I found and old post (https://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=7498.msg47901#msg47901) of this same request, Is there a way to do it? for mortals like me tha do not handle coding at all?.
I like Flickr pictures, they are nice, but I like mine more!.  Im not storing my pictures on lmce, I have them on a nas share point (synology nas and use DS Photos and also the new moments to upload in a snap pictures from the Phone, which is now days the biggest source of family pictures!).  I would like to just add that share point, without lmce structure (public to all) and make mce to pick random picture just like Flickr within any subfolder, but it would be nice if it can be done from the admin web and a single check or radio button!.  Im sure more users would find this option cool.   I have not added that share folder to mce because if I do it then it will add all the movies also and add them to the list of media available and makes it hard to nicely find movies/tv shows/etc, also is will disturb the media list cosmos harmony! hahahahahaa.. sound like some OCD there!!! .  I dont want pictures and videos taken to be mixed the media list,  Does this makes sense?

Cheers,

T

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Installation issues / Re: NAS mount eating local disk space LMCE 1404

« Last post by posde on May 21, 2018, 09:16:15 am »

Periodically, disk space gets checked. Probably a coincident.

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Installation issues / Re: NAS mount eating local disk space LMCE 1404

« Last post by tompin2 on May 21, 2018, 05:06:30 am »

Thanks Posde,

Cleaning the coredumps did the trick.!  What got me confused is that I was really trying to copy files to the mounted shares of the NAS on the LMCE.  Since the Nas has right now 2TB free I could not see why LMCE said that there was no space.  As mentioned above, cleaning coredumps did the trick!  thanks !!!!

Regards,

T