Inky Photogallery

Photogallery for Inky Impression color e-ink display connected to Raspberry Pi.

See my blog on building a DIY Color E-Ink Picture Frame for additional details.

How to install

• Connect the Inky Impression e-ink display to the Raspberry Pi (I am using a Raspberry Pi Zero W)
• Install the Raspberry Pi operating system on the Pi
• Enable I2C and SPI using sudo raspi-config for the Raspberry Pi to interact with the e-ink display
• Install Python and the Pimoroni Inky dependencies using the following commands (I updated the included pillow package, as it supports some of the features I use in the photogallery script)

apt install python3 python3-pip libopenjp2-7
pip3 install inky[rpi,example-depends]
pip3 install pillow==10.1.0

• Copy the photogallery.py script and images folder to the Raspberry Pi (e.g. to /home/[username]/eink)
• Remove the example images and place your own PNG files in the images folder
• Automatically run the script when the Raspberry Pi is booted by running crontab -e and adding the following line (change the location of the script):

@reboot sleep 60 && cd /home/username/eink && python3 /home/username/eink/photogallery.py &