flickr-slideshow-rpi

Simple Flickr slideshow for Raspbian using Python- and shell scripts together with crontab and Frame Buffer Image Viewer (FBI).

Prerequisites

• Raspbian
• FBI (which is the actual slideshow functionality)
• A Flickr account and API key
• An internet connection for the RPI

Setup

• Install FBI

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install fbi

• Use Crontab to run the Flickr download script in an interval to your liking

• Open Crontab

crontab -e

• Add cronjob

*/30/ * * * * /usr/bin/python3 /home/pi/slideshow/download_flickr.py

• Add a cronjob to start slideshow at reboot

@reboot sudo /home/pi/slideshow/slideshow.sh &

• Customize your paths to work with your own setup if it's different.

Misc

You might need to install several modules via Pip for this to work (like Pytz for example).