I found a very interesting project, called Picframe. Sprite hacked his digital photo keychain, now it’s possible to control this mini photo frame and use it as display. He also created a new plugin for LCD4Linux. I also created a patch for picframe, now my mini photo frame is also supported.
Some (rather bad) “in action” shots:
Did I mention that those little devices are quite cheap (~20€)?
I recently bought a cheapo pic frame but my intent is different. I want to understand the direct inputs for the lcd and get rid of the control board. maybe use it for a microtv or other display with a simple power supply and and composite input or some other. is this possible.
Did you have any trouble with getting the device connected when attempting to upload the new firmware?
With Ubuntu 8.04 it doesn’t appear to be getting assigned to a device node, which I suspect related to the “unknown partition table” error I saw in the below dmesg output. Just curious if you or any readers had any thoughts!
scsi 5:0:0:0: Direct-Access SITRONIX MULTIMEDIA 0.09 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
[ 281.653226] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdf] 4096 512-byte hardware sectors (2 MB)
[ 281.656221] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdf] Write Protect is off
[ 281.656227] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdf] Mode Sense: 0b 00 00 08
[ 281.656232] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdf] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 281.665206] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdf] 4096 512-byte hardware sectors (2 MB)
[ 281.668209] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdf] Write Protect is off
[ 281.668212] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdf] Mode Sense: 0b 00 00 08
[ 281.668216] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdf] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 281.668218] sdf: unknown partition table
[ 281.697217] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdf] Attached SCSI removable disk
[ 281.697264] sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg7 type 0
Hi, i have the same picframe, i have flash it and i can use the setpic to display PNGs. I have try to run lcd4linux on it, but when i start it nothing happend, can you explain it please?
you need the latest svn snapshot of lcd4linux and installed libst2205u. build lcd4linux yourself and make sure your enabled the st2205 driver during the ./configure step (something like ./configure –with-drivers=st2205u).
cheers
I saw that thanks to you there is an OpenWrt package st2205tool. I’m having trouble getting this to work with my Innovage-shift3 picframe and OpenWrt 8.09.1 as I describe here: https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=14726
Do you have any ideas that I could try?