Slideshow - project-owner/Peppy.doc GitHub Wiki
For the Radio mode this screensaver shows images from the folder /home/pi/Peppy/screensaver/slideshow/slides (or folder defined in parameter slides.folder). It shows images in the loop. If image doesn't fit to the screen it will be scaled so that the whole image is visible on screen. The images should be either in PNG or JPG formats.
For the File Playback mode this screensaver shows images from the album art folder if the folder exists. If the folder doesn't exist it shows images from the /home/pi/Peppy/screensaver/slideshow/slides folder (or folder defined in parameter slides.folder).
Each release of the Peppy player will have new set of images for slideshow. Peppy releases will be dedicated to the famous artists. The release will be named after that artist. The paintings of that artist will be placed in the slides folder. For example the first release 'Leonardo' was dedicated to Leonardo Da Vinci and his three paintings were used for the slideshow screensaver.
Configuration Parameters
Slideshow screensaver has the following configuration parameters in file screensaver-config.txt:
[Plugin Configuration]
update.period = 6
slides.folder =
random = True
use.cache = True
- update.period - defines in seconds time interval for image updates.
- slides.folder - if specified defines the folder from which screensaver will load images. If not specified then screensaver will load images from folder
/home/pi/Peppy/screensaver/slideshow/slides - random - defines the order in which images will be displayed. True - images will be displayed in random order. False - images will be displayed in alphabetical order.
- use.cache - True - cache images in memory, False - don't cache images in memory. The default value True is recommended for small number of images. The value False is recommended either for large number of images or for large resolution images. In the latter case the images will be always loaded from disk without caching in memory.