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Hi everyone,

I need help setting up my Raspberry Pi connected to a screen, to show pictures in a store, kinda like a slideshow.
Since I'm new to both Linux and Raspberry, I got stuck.

Here's the details:
- I need a software capable of cycling through pictures continuously;
- The pictures will be in an external HD, connected to a server (windows);
- The software must check the directory automatically for new pictures, and update the slideshow without human intervention;

Is this possible?
I searched for some tutorials online (including this forum), but none was satisfatory

My Pi Presents, use Liveshow. (See Sig) Also Screenly.

if you know python, or any other programming language, its a good learning project

I've managed to use Samba to set up the connection to the server.
Then I tried two different programs to see if they could do what I wanted:

First I tried gThumb. It has a nice features to create a slideshow such as restart the slideshow when it ends, however, I couldn't find the network within the software, and thus couldn't set the picture folder I wanted.

Then I tried DigiKam, and though it could access the network and the picture folder, I couldn't get it to use that network folder as the picture source for the slideshow.


So close, and yet so far... -_-'

Any ideas on this??