werebus / pictureframe-ansible

Simple Ansible playbooks for creating a Raspberry Pi digital picture frame

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Config.txt

Also needs to be put in place - bye-bye rainbow square

Put hosts file back

EOM

Custom splash file?

The .fb file was generated using fbv on a particular display. When you display it on a device with a different resolution, it doesn't look too good.

Ansible could put a jpeg in place, and do the creation itself:

• fbv filename.jpg
• sudo cp /dev/fb0 /root/start.fb

Expire vs "lock"

Expiring the root user also means that sudo su doesn't work. Is that bad? Not sure.

Setting the password attribute to 'x' also works. Although it seems like it makes the bootstrap step not work on a retry. (because become via su stops working).

cmdline is different pi1/2 vs pi3

Because of the bluetooth/UART thing. I seem to remember there might be a generic name.

Un-comment wireless

Should work on the actual device.

dd's in fim service file are display-specific

they wipe out enough pixels for my original picture frame, but they should probably be dynamically sized:

cat /sys/class/graphics/fb0/virtual_size
1824,984
cat /sys/class/graphics/fb0/bits_per_pixel
32

1824 * 984 * 32 / 8 = 7179264 for example

sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fb0 bs=7179264 count=1