[HOW TO] Display Pictures from Nextcloud to a Kodi Photo Frame

Posted on Author tiniownzyou



I wanted to be able to share pictures from Nextcloud to Kodi. The user experience should’ve looked like so:

To show pictures:

  1. Pictures are uploaded from the iOS app to Nextcloud.
  2. User goes over pictures and shares good ones with the Photoframe Nextcloud user.
  3. Wait for screensaver on OrangePi box to start and see new pictures!

To remove pictures:

  1. Unshare pictures with Photoframe Nextcloud user.

This was in the end quite involved as it included creating a “system” Nextcloud user, mounting a webdav folder and running rsync in a background task.

I wrote everything in this blog post https://blog.tiserbox.com/posts/2024-09-…cloud.html