To expand on what I wrote in the description. I've long had a server in the house with a network share to keep all the family data. We've got thousands, possibly tens of thousands of photos in the Our Photos directory. Many of them great, and we just don't see them very often. I've long wanted to have display in the house that showed our photos. I've bought a few photo frames. Some of them used a memory stick, some of them would pull off of a Flickr or Dropbox folder. Those are fine, but we've got 30 to 40 gigs of photos and putting them up on the web is a task I neither want to tackle, nor pay for the storage.

So, I wanted a photo frame that connected via the home network to the shared drive and pulled the photos from there. I've thought of repurposing an old laptop, but never found the time.

With Raspberry Pi, I of course saw a great hardware solution. Just a monitor and a single board. All I needed was the time...

Once I got into it, I thought of other things I would want.

1 - Clock

2 - Local weather and forecast. Ideally for home and for Tahoe

3 - Family Calendar

Other stuff that would be cool.

Ability to favorite certain photos so that they appeared more often. Likewise ability to down vote certain photos. Ability to recognize photos that needed to be rotated and automatically rotate them.