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I’d be happy to help test. What technology are you using to build the feed?
@Mike: At present it’s a bit slapdash; speed being more important than architectural perfection at this point.
I fired up a host on Amazon EC2 and have loaded with a combination of MySQL, PHP and Perl with some ‘special sauce’ of my own. It ain’t pretty but it is feed my frame Flickr and Picassa shots.
More later…
Great – would you eventually be willing to share your code? I run a bunch of Linux hosts and would be thrilled to help out with this in any way.
Thanks!
Do you think that there’s any chance for Facebook photo support? Besides all the little news, weather and trivia updates, random Facebook photos from all my friends was my favorite part.
@Averial: I’ve not any experience with grabbing Facebook pictures outside of FB. I do agree that it would be a very popular feature; I’ll see what can be done.
@Mike: Yes, I do plan to release it at some point. First priority is getting something running so that folks have something to use when FC shuts down at the end of the month.
@Mike: BTW, how many hosts and how much bandwidth to you have?;-)
Great progress!
I would be willing to test things, I have some experience but no time to develop… happy to try things, though.
I just leave a short comment, so You wouldn’t be distracted 🙂
I have been searching the whole weekend for some kind of replacement for FrameChannel (which I use for half a dozen W1020 to spread RSS, Weather and Local News among family, friends and customers).
I have found some kind of software (RSS Image Feeder) from uk-software.com. This was basically a little server for gathering Data and providing it as an rss-picture-stream. Unfortunately uk-software.com doesn’t have this software on sale and all I could download was a Trial/Demo which had a 2hrs time-limit and a “TRIAL” Watermark above each frame.
I have emailed uk-software.com for infos about purchasing the software (which they sold in 2009 for 19.99) but did not get any response yet.
I hope You succeed in Your efforts to develop a replacement for FrameChannel.
If I can contribute in any kind, please let me know.
Hey, I’m french, using a Parrot frame “Grande Specchio” and I was heavilly feeding it with FrameChannel. I am disappointed and trying to use now “Life Go Round” services (http://lifegoround.com/).
If somebody finds a replacement solution or succeed in using LifeGoRound.com, please let me know
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