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Feature Request: different locations #574

@dwolstenholme13

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@dwolstenholme13

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I've recently discovered this project, and bought a "moonka" ZN-DP1101 11-inch photo frame and successfully installed the ImmichFrame Android APK on it (incidentally, I found the documentation update PR for Immich-Kiosk here extremely helpful since this frame runs Android 13). I've bought some more of these same photo frames and plan to set them up and send them to my and my wife's parents to show our wedding photos and other photos.

However, the problem is that we all live in different places. My parents and my wife's parents even live on opposite sides of the planet. But the way the config file for ImmichFrame is set up, only one location can be specified, though multiple photo frames per location can be set up, each with different albums, and even different Immich server URLs. This seems like an odd limitation which assumes all managed photo frames will be in a single location. I only have one Immich server, but I want to show photos from it in different locations, not the other way around.

Would it be possible or desirable to change the config file format, and underlying architecture, to support different locations for different photo frames? Right now, I've worked around it by simply making multiple instances of ImmichFrame on my server with docker-compose, each having a different config file, but this seems messy and wasteful of resources. It'd be nicer and cleaner to just have a single ImmichFrame instance with a more complex Settings.yml file to configure multiple photo frames, each with a different location, and pointing to different photo albums.

Ultimately, the Settings.yml file might have a "PhotoFrames:" field, with a different fields for "WeatherLatLong", "AuthenticationSecret", "UnitSystem", "Language", "Clock[Date]Format", etc., and each would also have a separate "Accounts:" subfield, or perhaps just point to an "Accounts:" field which has a identifier.

Use Case

Single Immich server (or multiple even), single ImmichFrame server instance, managing multiple photo frames located in geographically-separated locations, showing the local weather in each location.

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Ultimately, the Settings.yml file might have a "PhotoFrames:" field, with a different fields for "WeatherLatLong", "AuthenticationSecret", "UnitSystem", "Language", "Clock[Date]Format", etc., and each would also have a separate "Accounts:" subfield, or perhaps just point to an "Accounts:" field which has a identifier.

Pre-Submission Checklist

  • This is a feature request and not a bug report

  • I have checked for related issues and checked the documentation

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