{"repo":"ozh/cadrephoto","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/ozh/cadrephoto","clone":"git clone https://github.com/ozh/cadrephoto.git","description":"✉➜🖼️ Email to photo frame for Raspberry + e-ink. Winner of Github's For The Love Of Code 2025 !","language":"Python","stars":21,"topics":["e-ink","eink","python","raspberry","raspberry-pi","fortheloveofcode"],"license":null,"category":"self-hosted-apps","readme_excerpt":"✉➜🖼️ Cadrephoto An email-to-photo-frame for your Grandma, powered by Raspberry Pi and eink display Cadrephoto ( french for \"photo frame\" ) is a project that allows you to send photos on a digital photo frame via email : no app needed, no knowledge, perfect for users of all ages and who may not be tech-savvy. 📑 Table of Contents - 💡 Features - 🖥️ Hardware - ⚙️ Installation - 🧩 Setup the service - 📸 Pictures - 📝 Inspiration & License 💡 Features ꜛ The principle is the following: - Raspberry Pi runs a Python script displaying photos on an eink screen - It checks at regular intervals for new emails on a given email account - When a new email with a photo arrives, the photo is displayed on the screen - Email sender and photo frame owner receive an email notification - Only the most recent photos are kept, making things ephemeral and an incentive to send newer pics ;) - Everything is fully configurable via a simple configuration file The buttons on the frame are used to perform various actions: - ⏺ Button 1 (short press) → display next photo (when Grandma wants something new) - ⏺ Button 2 (long press) → delete current photo (if Grandma doesn’t like it) - ⏺ Button 3 (long press) → debug screens with useful info (for curious Grandpa) - ⏺ Button 4 (long press) → clean shutdown of the Raspberry Pi (when Grandma relocates the frame) 🖥️ Hardware ꜛ - A Pimoroni Inky Impressions eink display (I used the 7.3\") - Any Raspberry Pi (built on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 so any model should wo","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/ozh","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/ozh/cadrephoto/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}