I was wondering is there a way to change the pic feed from flickr to my own pics? I tried copying my pics to the public data picture folder but I still cannot get any to come up with my pics in place of some of the flickr images. I can pull them up if I go to view my pics through LMCE when I go to the pictures menu.
I had to look for a minute there myself. It's far from a tutorial on how to do it though.
I have butchered the script. You'll need to change the source dir ($dirtoget) in the config section. It's hardcoded to look for .JPG files but you can change that (there are two references, just do find and replace).
I also added a bit in which ignores the images if they are less than 500px wide or high for quality reasons.
Sheesh... Someone should have told me it was hard to do... because I put my photos on no problem.
First, I moved the flickr.pl to flickr.pl.back. Too many of the flickr.pl photos were just not appropriate for my 4 year old grand-daughter... plus I didn't care to see various people sitting on the commode. So, by moving the flickr.pl out of the way, it will not overwrite what I do.
Next, I went to the directory where all the photos are stored by month... just under the 2007 year folder. I removed everything below the 2007 folder rm -rf *. Then I put my photos there, under the 2007 folder. A few minutes later they showed up as wallpaper. I didn't size/resize the photos... just used as they came out of my digital camera. That's it. It works.
can an orbiter use the flickr screensaver or only the media directors?
First, I moved the flickr.pl to flickr.pl.back.
Nice work Chris! And thanks for the aditional instructions majkaj.
That "tutorial" sure didn't take you guys long.
Yes, you can intermingle your photos with the flickr.pl downloaded photos. I have done this. I loaded 15 or so photos from my digital camera under the 2007 folder. At first, I left some of the photos that the flickr script pulled but, over time, I have replaced them with my own selections. I logged in to MY flickr account, did a search on photos with a tag of landscape, downloaded what I liked, copied them to the 2007 folder.
Hmm. It didn't work for me! How strange!