Pi4 - dual monitors, different picture folders

[gibblove3]

Hello - is there any further look to running two screens with one pie? From a configuration, I would like to use two different picture directories, one for each screen. This may not be possible, but love the innovation! Case is family pictures on one screen and 'art' work on the other screen using just one pi4.

Thanks in advance!

Randy

[helgeerbe]

Hi @gibblove3,

this was already requested in #98, but never answered.

Would be nice, if you can test to start 2 instances of picframe.

1. copy your configuration.yaml
2. make the adjustments:
   a.

  display_x: 0                            # offset from left of screen (can be negative)
  display_y: 0                            # offset from top of screen (can be negative)
  display_w: null                         # width of display surface (null->None will use max returned by hardware)
  display_h: null                         # height of display surface
  pic_dir: "~/Pictures"                   # default="~/Pictures", root folder for images
  db_file: "~/picframe_data/data/pictureframe.db3" # database used by PictureFrame
  device_id: "picframe"                   # default="picframe" unique id of device. change if there is more than one PictureFrame

3. start to 2 instances of picframe with different configuration.yaml files.

Would be cool, if you can create a little how to for our wiki, if this will work.

[paddywwoof]

I've not tried it for ages, and will not be able to really as I don't have two screens I can run from RPi4 (I think I had difficulties tricking it into thinking there were two screen so I could swap the lead over to see w hat was coming out of #2 hdmi), but I think it does work if the second instance has the display_x set to the next pixel past the end of the first display. This is kind of explained but rather buried in the thread referenced from the link @helgeerbe referenced.