Comments on: Making the eFrame more interesting

By: tdroza

tdroza — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:09:37 +0000

Not sure: I thought the 20 picture limit as due to Flickr only returning 20 images in their RSS feeds. Are you saying that your framechannel feed contains more than 20pics but the frame only shows the first 20?

By: David Boyd

David Boyd — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 17:35:18 +0000

Is it possible to get the eframe to show more than 20+ pictures with an RSS feed. I’ve managed to get my RSS feed to show more than 20+ picture using framechannel, but the device still shows just 20 pictures??

By: Colin Cliff

Colin Cliff — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 16:47:12 +0000

I have answered my own question. i copied the link into a word document and the dragged it into the BT software. Worked first time!

By: Colin Cliff

Colin Cliff — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 16:46:15 +0000

Has anyone managed to get the frame channel feed working with the latest frame channel website update

my current Frame Channel RSS feed is in this format which the BT software doesnt accept http://rss.framechannel.com//user=******/PIN=****

By: Martin Taylor

Martin Taylor — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 14:00:38 +0000

Thanks for your info folks, with that I managed to get framechannel working.
My ultimate aim is to get my remote PVR server status displayed on the frame. I’m currently doing this by using autoit to make a screen dump and then emailing that to framechannel. This is messy and is additive ending up with lots of screendumps on framechannel.
All I really want is to be able to display an image from a local server, refreshed regularly….. They don’t make it easy….

By: Gary Richards

Gary Richards — Fri, 08 May 2009 17:08:29 +0000

There’s almost a way to do it. It does involve adding one of the facebook apps and then allowing it access to your profile data when you’re not online though! The app is: http://apps.facebook.com/photofeeds/

Any feedback would be much appreciated. Although if it works i’m not sur ehow i’m going to be able to get one of these frames in less than a week now!

By: Gary Richards

Gary Richards — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 06:04:54 +0000

@tdroza: Sorry for the slow response… I can’t seem to find them on facebook anymore either, i’m sure they used to exist… Silly facebook

By: James Field

James Field — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 14:07:53 +0000

Thanks – I’ve also think I have finally cracked it! (just the continual connection problems to my wifi seem to be a problem!) I had to highlight the RSS feed in the account section of the Framechannel service and then drag this text into the BT frame application – it then picked up my account! taking it from the browser URL bar didn’t work (in IE 6, Firefox & Safari) each time

I also heard back from Framechannel again they said, regarding the BT eframe 1000 “We have contacted this company though and hope to start working with them for certification.” But I’m not too helpful as BT are now dumping their stock and haven’t done any software updates to either the client or PC app since selling the product. (also they have the Flickr connection via their Yahoo alliance)

Thanks all!

By: tdroza

tdroza — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:47:54 +0000

I think Sean’s on to something here – don’t just drag the RSS link from the framechannel account page into the BT software. Drag it to your browser’s address bar first so that your browser loads the feed. Verify that the content is your personal feed (modify the url if necessary to remove the RSS=200 but), then drag the url from your browser address bar into the BT software.

Also, I notice today the the framechannel site has had a bit of a redesign and it looks like you might have to cut & paste the url into your browser now anyway.

Has anyone managed to get multiple framechannel feeds (without creating more than one framechannel account)? E.g. I’d like one feed for new and weather and another feed for facebook etc so they appear as separate menu items on the frame rather than all mixed together in the same feed.

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:46:05 +0000

@James

I had the same problem when I tried to add the Framechannel feed (I kept getting the RSS=200 bit on the name of the URL). This is your problem. If you paste the URL into a browser with that bit on the end you just get the default channel.

I Think I got round this by dragging the RSS symbol from a different part of the FramChannel page. It then added the URL withou tthe extra bit on the end and all was fine then. Of fourse it would be better if you could just edit the URL in the BT Client but it doesnt seem to allow that (even looked in the registry to see if I could see if it stored the feeds in there – but couldnt see it anywhere).