I know this is random but it's something thats been pissing me off.

These android photo frames are basically a scam to get you to do a monthly
subscription.

Many of them are rigged so you can not show much more than 15 seconds of a video unless you pay more. it's a big scam. you can end up paying 50-75 bucks for something that's crippled. I finally hooked it up and just copied over a bunch of mp4s and it wont deal with it even though it should do fine. it wants me to do the app and trim them....or pay the monthly subscription to unlock it.

it's better to just make your own.

I guess i can get in via adb but people are having problems because when they
use a different app it can't take input.
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Re: android photo frames
By: MRO to All on Sat Nov 30 2024 05:37 pm

> I know this is random but it's something thats been pissing me off.
>
> These android photo frames are basically a scam to get you to do a
>
> monthly
> subscription.



oh on reddit this is what someone's been working on.
i might put a remote desktop app on there to control it.

"Not sure where to put this but I wanted to let people know. I've been looking for a photo frame that has wifi but doesn't rely on 3rd party clouds. I found this 10.5" 1920x1280 frame that runs android 8.1. It has a usb port on the back and if you enable the "beta program" in settings it allows you to connect with ADB, open shell and install apps. there is also root access.

the frameo app can't see photos added to the sd card while the app is running, you have to remove/reinsert the sd card for it to notice the new files.

I installed nova launcher through adb and uninstalled the default frameo app. i then installed syncthing and fotoo. i made syncthing run as root so it could access the SD card and everything is working great so far. fotoo scans whatever folder you point it at and periodically looks for new files and adds them to
the slideshow.

There are some quirks, there is no status bar or navigation buttons so i had to use adb to virtually press the "home" and "back" buttons. the brightness is
only adjustable through the frameo app, trying to use the slider in the android settings crashes the settings app. I'm guessing they were removed by the OEM
and it could be fixed by a new ROM but I don't know much about it. there are
adb commands to change brightness. you can't have both a flash drive and the
usb cable attached at the same time, (you can use the sd card slot and the
cable at the same time though).

A few other notes, there is no ambient light sensor, and despite what the
amazon listing says, there is no motion sensor.

Here is ADB with product info and root access: https://i.imgur.com/xtyiIf9.png.

CPU info: https://i.imgur.com/29TvTVK.png


Here is the frame running fotoo! https://i.imgur.com/3T3qlVm.jpg"


some of these limit how many apps can run at a time so that's another
hurdle. i should just make my own.

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Re: android photo frames
By: MRO to All on Sat Nov 30 2024 06:02 pm

> Re: android photo frames
> By: MRO to All on Sat Nov 30 2024 05:37 pm
>
> > I know this is random but it's something thats been pissing me off.
>
> > These android photo frames are basically a scam to get you to do a


oh btw, here's another example of bullshit prices on amazon for
black friday and cyber monday.

https://i.imgur.com/DE8Oljd.png

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Hello MRO!

M> oh btw, here's another example of bullshit prices on amazon for
M> black friday and cyber monday.

M> https://i.imgur.com/DE8Oljd.png


That is very interesting. So.. BF is not necessarily the
lowest price.

How do you pull up the price history.. is it Keepa?

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Re: android photo frames
By: Ogg to MRO on Sun Dec 01 2024 08:11 am

> Hello MRO!
>
> M> oh btw, here's another example of bullshit prices on amazon for
> M> black friday and cyber monday.
>
> M> https://i.imgur.com/DE8Oljd.png

>
> That is very interesting. So.. BF is not necessarily the
> lowest price.
>
> How do you pull up the price history.. is it Keepa?

yeah it's keepa.

Keepa - Amazon Price Tracker
5.42
Adds price history charts and the option to be alerted on price drops to all supported Amazon sites.

amazon is really pulling some tricks this year though.
they aren't making the numbers they did in covid times.

I'm such a big amazon customer they used to send me credits for prime and they dont anymore.
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Re: android photo frames
By: Ogg to MRO on Sun Dec 01 2024 08:11 am

> Hello MRO!
>
> M> oh btw, here's another example of bullshit prices on amazon for
> M> black friday and cyber monday.
>
> M> https://i.imgur.com/DE8Oljd.png

>
> That is very interesting. So.. BF is not necessarily the
> lowest price.
>
> How do you pull up the price history.. is it Keepa?

another thing is this kids toy.
it was a dollar more 2 weeks ago.
overall, it is about 39% off if you go by the regular price.
but it's an old item and should be 15 now anyways.

https://i.imgur.com/ykI2Duo.png


and on nov 6th it was one penny more
https://i.imgur.com/OSRSaZC.png

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Hello MRO!

M> another thing is this kids toy.
M> it was a dollar more 2 weeks ago.
M> overall, it is about 39% off if you go by the regular price.
M> https://i.imgur.com/ykI2Duo.png


M> but it's an old item and should be 15 now anyways.

But.. supply varies at the source perhaps, and so do shipping/
manufacturing costs, so.. prices keep changing.


M> and on nov 6th it was one penny more
M> https://i.imgur.com/OSRSaZC.png


Yeah.. I don't understand the penny (or, the under $1
variations). Maybe they adjust the prices according to demand
and viewing hits.


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Hello MRO!

>> How do you pull up the price history.. is it Keepa?

M> yeah it's keepa.

M> Keepa - Amazon Price Tracker
M> 5.42
M> Adds price history charts and the option to be alerted on price drops to
M> all supported Amazon sites.

Is keepa completely free after registration?


M> amazon is really pulling some tricks this year though.
M> they aren't making the numbers they did in covid times.

M> I'm such a big amazon customer they used to send me credits for prime and
M> they dont anymore. -+-

Prime has changed over time (now they add select free audio
books, ebooks and streaming). Initially it was just for free,
same-day/2-day shipping. But I find that they ship out asap
anyway; I get parcels in about 2 or 3 days with the "Prime"
tape wrapped on them. Therefore, I'm not interested to dole out
$100/yr for the other freemiums.

I recently got one of these during the Black Friday (BF) event:

SDSSDE30-2T00-G26

..and the BF price seems to be good.

https://ibb.co/cDqX6vt


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Re: android photo frames
By: MRO to Ogg on Sun Dec 01 2024 07:46 pm

MR> amazon is really pulling some tricks this year though. they aren't making
MR> the numbers they did in covid times.

Amazon had a bunch of random stuff on sale for Black Friday, and from what I could tell, it was nothing I really needed or wanted to buy. There are a couple computer-related items I am tenatively planning on buying which weren't on sale anywhere, as far as I could tell.

Nightfox

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Re: android photo frames
By: Nightfox to MRO on Mon Dec 02 2024 10:12 am

> Re: android photo frames
> By: MRO to Ogg on Sun Dec 01 2024 07:46 pm
>
> MR> amazon is really pulling some tricks this year though. they aren't
> MR> making the numbers they did in covid times.
>
> Amazon had a bunch of random stuff on sale for Black Friday, and from what I
> could tell, it was nothing I really needed or wanted to buy. There are a
> couple computer-related items I am tenatively planning on buying which
> weren't on sale anywhere, as far as I could tell.

I bought an Apple Mac Mini M4 (base model) at Costco a little over a week ago for $499. I think that sale ends today.
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Re: android photo frames
By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Mon Dec 02 2024 04:18 pm

DM> I bought an Apple Mac Mini M4 (base model) at Costco a little over a week
DM> ago for $499. I think that sale ends today.

I've heard those are pretty good machines, and that sounds like a good deal.

Nightfox

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Re: android photo frames
By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Mon Dec 02 2024 05:03 pm

> Re: android photo frames
> By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Mon Dec 02 2024 04:18 pm
>
> DM> I bought an Apple Mac Mini M4 (base model) at Costco a little over a
> DM> week ago for $499. I think that sale ends today.
>
> I've heard those are pretty good machines, and that sounds like a good deal.

Yeah, they're a deal at the normal retail price of $599 ($579 normally at Costco), so the extra discount sort of "forced" my purchase timing. It's plenty fast though the stock storage (256GB) is pretty lame.
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Re: android photo frames
By: Ogg to MRO on Mon Dec 02 2024 07:37 am

> Hello MRO!
>
> M> another thing is this kids toy.
> M> it was a dollar more 2 weeks ago.
> M> overall, it is about 39% off if you go by the regular price.
> M> https://i.imgur.com/ykI2Duo.png

>
> M> but it's an old item and should be 15 now anyways.
>
> But.. supply varies at the source perhaps, and so do shipping/
> manufacturing costs, so.. prices keep changing.
>

not with amazon. they seem to work on an algorithm that works mostly on demand.
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Re: android photo frames
By: Ogg to MRO on Mon Dec 02 2024 08:39 am

> M> Adds price history charts and the option to be alerted on price drops to
> M> all supported Amazon sites.
>
> Is keepa completely free after registration?
>

i never registered it or paid for keepa.

> same-day/2-day shipping. But I find that they ship out asap
> anyway; I get parcels in about 2 or 3 days with the "Prime"
> tape wrapped on them. Therefore, I'm not interested to dole out
> $100/yr for the other freemiums.
>

i'm grandfathered into prime and i ride off my friend's account.
i dont think people can do that anymore. we're both huge amazon spenders so it's in amazon's best interest. :D
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-=> Digital Man wrote to Nightfox <=-

DM> I bought an Apple Mac Mini M4 (base model) at Costco a little over a
DM> week ago for $499. I think that sale ends today. --

We're ready for the April Fool's post where future Synchronet
development will be Mac-only, and the only way to get it is by buying a
Mac Mini/Synchronet bundle...



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Re: Re: android photo frames
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Digital Man on Thu Dec 05 2024 01:38 pm

> -=> Digital Man wrote to Nightfox <=-
>
> DM> I bought an Apple Mac Mini M4 (base model) at Costco a little over a
> DM> week ago for $499. I think that sale ends today. --
>
> We're ready for the April Fool's post where future Synchronet
> development will be Mac-only, and the only way to get it is by buying a
> Mac Mini/Synchronet bundle...

Ha! I do expect the next release of Synchronet (v3.20) to be the first to be officially supported on macOS, but certainly have no desire or plans to stop supporting Windows and the other *nixes. Who knows though, I could change my mind by March 31st. :-)
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