Store photo slider

[Necrofear]

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

[KenT]

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

[dan3008]

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

[Necrofear]

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??