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kindle-synology-photos-photoframe

Pick a random photo from a shared album in Synology Photos and show it on a jailbroken Kindle every morning. All processing happens on the device using 100% Golang.

Read the corresponding blog post here

Photo frame

Tested on a Kindle Voyage. But should also work on other jailbroken Kindles.

Instructions

  1. Make sure your Kindle is jailbroken and is reachable over SSH (<= 5.13.3 or <= 5.14.2)
  2. Download the latest release
  3. Copy photoframe binary and linkss folder to the internal storage of the kindle (/mnt/us).
  4. To start ./photoframe http://192.168.50.57:5000/mo/sharing/RMVJ3g6t8 > /dev/null & (replace url with sharing link to your own album)
  5. To stop killall photoframe. You will have 30 seconds to stop it after you woke up the device manually by pressing the power button.

Log files are stored under /mnt/us/photoframe.log