gddeluca 2 Posted October 14, 2022 Share Posted October 14, 2022 I have my family photos in a \Pictures folder which has multiple sub folders (some with inner subfolders). Is there any way to just point at \Pictures and get a random slideshow of ALL the photos in ALL the nested folders? George Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37063 Posted October 14, 2022 Share Posted October 14, 2022 Hi, have you tried clicking the play button on a folder? Or have you tried clicking into a folder and then clicking play all/shuffle at the top of the screen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gddeluca 2 Posted October 14, 2022 Author Share Posted October 14, 2022 OK, I finally got it going with selecting photos and then shuffle for the whole folder. My problem is that I'm trying to get Emby set up to show our photos on our big screen (65") TV. My wife is visually impaired and for you and I, navigating on screen menus to accomplish this is perhaps trivial. For her, it is a royal PITA, since her vision is so poor, any on screen navigation is a major obstacle. I'm struggling to find something that will work for her from the Emby home screen with a minimum of clicks or having to squint at the screen to figure things out. I just don't want her to end up saying "Forget it, I can't manage to do this". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37063 Posted October 15, 2022 Share Posted October 15, 2022 How would you like to do it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gddeluca 2 Posted October 15, 2022 Author Share Posted October 15, 2022 Well, for her I'd like to see, after selecting the Family Photos Library, a single new button that goes directly into shuffle slideshow mode for the entire library contents. Maybe even a Library attribute that could be set so that simple clicking on the Library will auto-launch the slideshow. Just as an aside, we were PLEX users, and both of us are much more impressed with Emby and its 'way of doing things'. As well, on our Firestick it is sooooo much more stable than PLEX which acted up and crashed or had to be restarted at least 3-4 times a day. Kudos! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MBSki 1016 Posted October 15, 2022 Share Posted October 15, 2022 12 minutes ago, gddeluca said: Well, for her I'd like to see, after selecting the Family Photos Library, a single new button that goes directly into shuffle slideshow mode for the entire library contents. Maybe even a Library attribute that could be set so that simple clicking on the Library will auto-launch the slideshow. Just as an aside, we were PLEX users, and both of us are much more impressed with Emby and its 'way of doing things'. As well, on our Firestick it is sooooo much more stable than PLEX which acted up and crashed or had to be restarted at least 3-4 times a day. Kudos! Isn't there already a shuffle button? I have a shuffle button, but the problem seems to be that it doesn't play. It shuffles to 1 photo, but never advances to the next photo or video. Play appears to have the same problem on Android mobile version .77. @Luke what's the time between the next photo/video? I waited about 10 seconds and nothing happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visproduction 122 Posted October 15, 2022 Share Posted October 15, 2022 I know the question is how to get Emby to do this. I just wanted to point out that most new TV's have a slide show option. All you do is put the images on a USB drive and plug it into the back the TV. This is obviously a easy option to do what you want. The TV manual has steps how to do this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gddeluca 2 Posted October 16, 2022 Author Share Posted October 16, 2022 Yes, I'm aware of this option. But until you're as visually impaired as my wife (can't drive, can't read, etc.) you have no idea how difficult what you're suggesting would be for her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37063 Posted October 16, 2022 Share Posted October 16, 2022 Does your remote control have a dedicated play button? If so then that is a shortcut you can use to start playing whatever is highlighted. So for example you could do that from the home screen with the photo library selected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gddeluca 2 Posted October 16, 2022 Author Share Posted October 16, 2022 Tried it. If I select play, you get the pulldown with 'Play All', 'Shuffle All' etc. select Shuffle all and sometimes the screen 'blinks', sometimes not, but you end up back at the Emby home screen. To get it to play I have to select Family Pictures, then select Folder, then Play, then Shuffle to get it going. Exactly the sequence my wife would have a very hard time doing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37063 Posted October 16, 2022 Share Posted October 16, 2022 What emby app is this with? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gddeluca 2 Posted October 16, 2022 Author Share Posted October 16, 2022 The Firestick version. Do you need specific versions? I assume it's up to date. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37063 Posted October 16, 2022 Share Posted October 16, 2022 Hi. Can you try sideloading our standard android app on the same device and see how that compares? https://emby.media/emby-for-android.html Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gddeluca 2 Posted October 16, 2022 Author Share Posted October 16, 2022 OK, it may take a while to get this done. Stay tuned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37063 Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 Let us know how you get on. Thanks ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gddeluca 2 Posted October 18, 2022 Author Share Posted October 18, 2022 Did the Sync after ordering the install on Amazon, didn't notice any real activity, it just sort of 'blinked' Checked Emby, the version says 2.0.9a Testing again showed no differences. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37063 Posted October 24, 2022 Share Posted October 24, 2022 On 10/18/2022 at 2:22 PM, gddeluca said: Did the Sync after ordering the install on Amazon, didn't notice any real activity, it just sort of 'blinked' Checked Emby, the version says 2.0.9a Testing again showed no differences. @gddeluca what do you mean exactly by "did the sync" ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gddeluca 2 Posted October 24, 2022 Author Share Posted October 24, 2022 Went in, selected he "Sync" option. There was no message or anything to indicate it had installed a new version, it just returned to the same screen. There was also no error message indicating an update failure. As if the Sync has simply 'done nothing'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37063 Posted October 24, 2022 Share Posted October 24, 2022 1 minute ago, gddeluca said: Went in, selected he "Sync" option. There was no message or anything to indicate it had installed a new version, it just returned to the same screen. There was also no error message indicating an update failure. As if the Sync has simply 'done nothing'. Hi, we don't have any buttons called "Sync". What version of the Emby app are you running? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gddeluca 2 Posted October 24, 2022 Author Share Posted October 24, 2022 Your asked me to sideload Emby from the amazon store. So I went to the Amazon store, ordered it. Then went to my firestick and told it to Sync my apps with the store. I assume this was to get the Firestick to upgrade Emby. But as I said, the Sync (on the Firestick) didn't seem to actually DO any thing. Was that not the action you meant me to do to sideload the app? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14912 Posted October 25, 2022 Share Posted October 25, 2022 On 10/18/2022 at 2:22 PM, gddeluca said: Checked Emby, the version says 2.0.9a That is an incredibly old version of the app. Is that still the version it shows after you attempted to update? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gddeluca 2 Posted October 25, 2022 Author Share Posted October 25, 2022 OK, I just went and uninstalled it, and re-installed is from the Firestick store. It fetches the same version - 2.0.9a. What version should it be? And where can I get it? And why, if it's so old, is it still the version Amazon is using for the Firestick? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14912 Posted October 25, 2022 Share Posted October 25, 2022 The current version in the Amazon store is 2.0.79. Are you sure you aren't mis-reading the version? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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