4. Usage — PhotoMiroir documentation
4. Usage¶ ¶
4.1. Upload Photos to a Remote Location¶ ¶
Starting from version 1.0, the PhotoMiroir allows you to upload the photos to a Flickr account or to an FTP server. See Section 3.1.2 and Section 3.1.3 for the associated configuration.
The upload only happens if the upload
setting is set (see
Section 3.1.1).
Photos are only uploaded once. If both Flickr and FTP server are configured, the photos are uploaded to Flickr.
You can either choose to upload the photos as soon as they are taken or choose
to upload them as a batch at 4am (when delay_upload
is set).
4.2. Accessing the Gallery from One’s Smartphone¶ ¶
If the ssid
option is set (see Section 3.2.2), the PhotoMiroir
set up a wifi access point which allows people to connect to it and to browse
the photos as soon as they are taken. Be sure to set the gallery
setting
to enable the gallery feature (see Section 3.1.1).
On most phones, once the PhotoMiroir access point is selected, the user will be redirected to the gallery. If it doesn,’t work, they can still open a browser and navigate to http://photomiroir.fr in order to access the gallery.
4.3. Accessing the Images from Another PC¶ ¶
4.3.2. With the File Explorer¶ ¶
4.3.2.1. From a Windows Computer¶ ¶
You can browse the photo from your Windows file explorer by accessing
\\192.168.0.44\Photo_Miroir
(after replacing 192.168.0.44 with the local IP address of your PhotoMiroir
as shown in Section 2.3).
4.3.2.2. From a Linux Computer¶ ¶
You can browse the photo from your Linux file explorer by accessing
smb://192.168.0.44/Photo_Miroir
(after replacing 192.168.0.44 with the local IP address of your PhotoMiroir
as shown in Section 2.3).
4.4. Display a Slideshow¶ ¶
4.4.1. From a Web Navigator¶ ¶
The PhotoMiroir offers a native web slideshow if the slideshow
setting is
enabled (see Section 3.1.1). The slideshow display all photos randomly,
and insert the new photos as soon as possible.
You can browse the photo slideshow by opening http://192.168.0.44/slideshow (after replacing 192.168.0.44 with the local IP address of your PhotoMiroir as shown in Section 2.3).
A new photo is shown every 8 seconds. You can change the delay to n seconds by adding ?d=n
to the slideshow URL. For example:
http://192.168.0.44/slideshow?d=5 would change the delay between two photos to
5 seconds.
4.4.2. With a Native Application¶ ¶
You can also configure a native slideshow application on your PC to access the photo on the network share, as shown in Section 4.3.2
4.4.3. Add Predefined Photos to the Slideshow¶ ¶
You may add some photos that will be interleaved into the slideshow. For
example, you may display some images in prder to advertise for the existence
and the use of the PhotoMiroir. Those photos will be displayed in turn every
ten photos. You may change this value to n
by appending ?sb=n
to the
slideshow URL. For example:
http://192.168.0.44/slideshow?sb=5 would change the number of photos between
the predefined one to 5. You may also combine the d
and sb
parameter
with the following syntax: http://192.168.0.44/slideshow?sb=5&d=10
To add the photo you have to connect to the Windows file share as explained here after, but first you have to identify yourself once on the admin panel (see Section 3.1.1) in order to create teh windows credentials. Only then you will be able to connect to the Windows share with the same credentials.
4.4.3.1. From a Windows Computer¶ ¶
You can put additional photos from your Windows file explorer by accessing
\\192.168.0.44\More Slideshow Photos
(after replacing 192.168.0.44 with the local IP address of your PhotoMiroir
as shown in Section 2.3).
4.4.3.2. From a Linux Computer¶ ¶
You can put additional photos from your Linux file explorer by accessing
smb://192.168.0.44/More Slideshow Photos
(after replacing 192.168.0.44 with the local IP address of your PhotoMiroir
as shown in Section 2.3).