Overview

This is a Python tool that displays photos directly to a Framebuffer device in Linux. It can be used to directly drive a photoframe without needing to install a graphical environment.

This has been used to stably drive a screen from a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W over a long period of time (with swap enabled).

Example Usages

Drive from a folder of images:

pfb_slideshow /dev/fb0 /images >/dev/null

Displays randomized images from a text file with a list of relative file-paths and a display time of five minutes:

pfb_slideshow /dev/fb0 /frame/images.txt --root /frame --time 300 --random >/dev/null

We add the redirections to /dev/null because it's the most elegant way of suppressing erroneous text verbosity that might write into the displayed image.

Example Screenshot

Features

• Prints a gutter at the bottom of the display with filename, EXIF model, and EXIF timestamp
• Can take a list of file-paths instead of a single path. The entries can be absolute or relative.
• Can randomize images
• Can control the delay between images
• Press left/right cursor to navigate through images
• Plays in a loop