Frame Buffer Image (`fbi`) -- An image viewer for the Raspberry Pi. Could be related to FIM (Fbi IMproved).
Frame Buffer Image (fbi) is an image viewer for Raspberry Pi.
Could be related to FIM (Fbi IMproved).
Questions tagged [fbi]
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Fbi has no access to tty when run as non-root user
Fbi is a framebuffer image viewer that does not need an X-server setup. It's perfect for what I want to achieve: a stand alone dedicated slide show.
I want to run the following command as a non-root user:
fbi -d /dev/fb0 -T 1 foo.jpg
When I run fbi…
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Display NumPy array as an image using fbi on Ubuntu
I would like to display a NumPy array as an image on the screen from a Python script. I need to do this without starting X, so I can't use OpenCV, PIL, etc.
Is it possible to do this using fbi in a subprocess started in the Python script?
Below is…
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Check folder for new images and display them on Linux/RPi command line
My script downloads a new image from a web resource once per hour.
I want to display that image on a monitor connected to a raspberry pi.
What works:
downloading an image via cron job every hour
deleting any previous downloaded images from the…
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cannot kill fbi process started from a python script
This python code runs fbi in an infinite loop even though there is a trap for ctrl-C
import os
var = 1
try:
while var == 1:
os.system("sleep 5; kill $(pgrep fbi); sudo fbi -a image1.jpg")
except KeyboardInterrupt:
kill $(pgrep fbi)
…
aquagremlin
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Quickly dispatching between `fbi` and `omxplayer`
I have a script running on a RaspberryPi Zero, which is waiting for the press of a button to then display a video through HDMI:
Script is waiting and displaying an the waiting image
The button is pressed and a loading-video image is shown
As soon…
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virtual console id changes after display power cycle
I am building a raspberry pi powered display. The display is a 5inch led display connected by hdmi to the rpi which is running the current linux lite version. The monitor powers up when a pir detects motion in the room, the display stays live for…
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Trying to display picture on Raspberry Pi with fbi ... doesn't really work
I can show videos all day with omxplayer, no problem. Showing a simple jpeg, apparently is rocket science. I've spent days with fbi library and it doesn't work very well. I'm running buster raspbian (and same issues on stretch raspbian) and…
Tahl
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PILLOW image module fails to show images on command line in Raspbian
On a raspberry Pi running stretch lite with Python 2.7, this does not work
from PIL import Image
pic = Image.open('image1.jpg')
pic.show('title', command = 'fbi')
It gives
display-im6.q16: unsble to open X server `' @…
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