{"id":48,"date":"2024-06-04T12:31:56","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T12:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ltzs.us\/?p=48"},"modified":"2025-04-11T20:51:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T20:51:20","slug":"app-for-old-fire-tablets-to-do-photo-slideshows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.ltzs.us\/?p=48","title":{"rendered":"App for old Fire tablets to do photo slideshows"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An old 8&#8243; fire tablet (6th gen I think). I wanted to use it as a photo slideshow for my parents. Quickpic used to be the app of choice, but won&#8217;t play nicely with SMB drives (the version I have may be limited to NTLMv1, which is a no-go due to security vulnerabilities. Reddit suggested various options, and one that works great with my existing SMB setup is <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.fstop.photo&amp;hl=en_US\">F-stop gallery<\/a>. App works with the old firmware of the tablet, and connected to my shared drive no problem. Now I can add photos to the shared drive and they will get added to the infinitely looping slideshow. Much easier than my first idea of VNC session with a remote slideshow playing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An old 8&#8243; fire tablet (6th gen I think). I wanted to use it as a photo slideshow for my parents. Quickpic used to be the app of choice, but won&#8217;t play nicely with SMB drives (the version I have may be limited to NTLMv1, which is a no-go due to security vulnerabilities. Reddit suggested&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ltzs.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ltzs.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ltzs.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ltzs.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ltzs.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ltzs.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ltzs.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ltzs.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ltzs.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ltzs.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}