Are there no frames that just take usb/microsd?
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There are but my assumption is they want something wireless that they can update often with photos of the child
Correct! This would be going out to family that doesn't just live close enough to see her and take their own pictures, so being able to add more remotely is the whole point!
I'm about to try this. I've ordered a Frameo picture frame that runs Android and supposedly you can use adb to sideload Immichframe and set it as the home app so it launches automatically. My Immich instance is on a private mesh network so I was going to configure the frame to autoconnect to the mesh network and only have permissions to access that one machine.
If I cannot get this to work, I'll fail back to just manually loading the pictures on an SD card and swap out the card for one with new pictures when I visit.
Very nice! Was looking at the exact same frames after doing some more research, a 10 inch frame for about as cheap as some empty frames I've seen, with documentation on the process provided by Immich Frame themselves.
Your private mesh network is an elegant addition to it as well, I may consider something similar. As mentioned in the post, Immich Frame doesn't recommend being exposed to the Internet, and just has support for a simple single password system. I still feel better about that than being in Frameo's database I know nothing about and would be paying suspiciously little for, but it's not exactly ironclad either.
Definitely let me know how it goes if you tackle it in the next week or so!
I finally got around to doing this. I bought one of these. Here is a quick brain dump of the steps.
- Enable the beta program in the frame settings and you'll get the USB debugging option.
- Once you enable USB debugging, hook it up to your computer (usb-a to c, not c-c cable) and install the latest immichframe apk: adb install
- You'll need a computer on the network where the frame will live that is kinda like a proxy to your immich server. I didn't initially figure this out.
- Setup immich frame docker container on that machine. you'll need to configure your immich library credentials and which albums to serve, etc.
- Then, in the immichframe settings on the frame, configure your host address of the machine running the docker container.
- you can then disable the frameo app so that immichframe launches when the frame starts up. 'adb shell su' then 'pm disable net.frameo.frame'
that's basically it. the immichframe documentation is pretty sparse so I had to fumble around trying a bunch of different things before I could make this work.
Also, I was originally planning on getting tailscale running on the frame but that was a no-go. Plus, it was not needed in my case since I already had a system on tailscale at that location so I installed the immichframe server there and it connects over tailscale to my immich server.