I’m hanging 3 LCD monitors on a wall of my house to use as digital picture frames??"2 in landscape and 1 in portrait orientation.? I’m looking for an application written in .NET/WPF that will put full-screen images on these frames, pulling the “right?? pictures from my photo collection which will be on a Server PC.? I will drive the frames via a single PC running Windows 7,? with 3 monitors setup via the HDMI out of the PC and ? 2 additional USB->DVI adapters.? I’d like to do this in multiple stages, with each one adding more functionality:
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Stage 1: Basic photo frameset.? ? This reads in all the photos on [\\server\share][1] on a periodic basis, parses them to figure out which are portrait orientation and landscape orientation, filters on ratings (3 star and up) stored in the JPEG exif data by Windows Photo Gallery, and displays a coordinated set of 3 photos on all 3 displays (3 photos from the same folder), and changes them together at a ? configurable interval.? No fancy animations or photo layouts are necessary… a simple crossfade of full screen images? is ideal.? The algorithm for choosing photos should be random, but the application algorithm should be CLEARLY SEPARATED in the source code so I can try changing and evolving it myself over time.?
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Stage 2-and later will add additional features. These are detailed in the "spec" document I'm including.
I’d like someone to bid on Stage 1 and Stage 2 as two parts … I *for sure* want to hire someone to do Stage 1, and if the price isn't way too high I'd like to do Stage 2 as well after getting Stage 1 up and running.? I'm somewhat flexible in what Stage 2 could include -- but I've spec'd what I think is the right baseline assumption.
## Deliverables
I've attached a ZIP with:
- a spec document that explains in much more detail what I'm looking for in each of the Stages
- a photo of the frames hanging on the wall