
The second command will instantly activate the screensaver. The first command will launch the screensaver deamon on the desktop. This is done through the autostart config file of lxde: $ nano /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart Now the last piece in the puzzle is to automatically start the screensaver after boot. Where we can then select the screensaver “GLSlideshow”. On the Raspbian Desktop open a terminal and run xscreensaver-demo.
#Xscreensaver no splash deamon install
Now we need two packages to make this work: $ sudo apt-get install xscreensaver xscreensaver-gl-extra

$ sudo raspi-config In “Boot Options” enable “Wait for Network at Boot” In “Boot Options” -> “Desktop /CLI” select “Desktop Autologin” In “Advanced” enable the “GL Driver” Option to enable hardware acceleration In order to be able to mount this share automatically, we need to change some configurations on the raspberry. To access the photos, I setup the following entry in the /etc/fstab //192.168.0.159/3tb /mnt cifs user=kaiwegner,password=**,nounix,iocharset=utf8 0 0īe sure to install smbclient in order to be able to mount samba shares: $ sudo apt-get install smbclient I created a samba share on the server, to access the photos from the raspberry pi.

In order to solve this issue, I used a Raspberry Pi … Happy ending (how-to)įirst things first: Where are the photos? All my photos are placed on my nextcloud-server. Secondly the quality of the photos saw a dramatic decrease there were artifacts of jpg compression, that I obviously did not put there. After its last firmware only the most recent files (100 or 200 of them) were shown. Firstly it did not iterate all photos (over 11.000 of them). Recently however the FireTV we were using started acting weird.

For years now, I was using AppleTVs, FireTVs and even Windows PCs (originally meant for gaming) to display recent and ancient family photos.
