First of all, thank you for giving me hope to revive eo1.

I got the USB adapter and connected it to the mouse. Used it to connect to wifi.

Then, using the keyboard shortcut, I opened the browser and opened the GitHub URL.

When clicked on apk link, it says starting download but queued in the background.

Any suggestions? Please help.

I'm a dev but haven't ever worked with android. That being said, I'm willing to try and put in some work on this app. It might be nice to have some instructions to getting started, especially as I'm sure this is an older version of android and things might be a bit different?

After putting in my username and password I just see a loading indicator with my IP displayed at the bottom of the screen. I get the same no matter what photo option I chose.

The stats for my app on flickr also shows 0 calls, but I've double and triple checked the key

Having set the brightness last night, I awoke to find it back to 100%. Yet, it seems like the setting is still correct in the partner app.

Maybe there needs to be an existence check for the brightness setting prior to re-enabling the display?

Current settings:

Not 100% sure how feasible this is, but I currently have an android phone that I use exclusively for interacting with the app. I'm curious if basically the same functionality could be achieved by having the device host essentially the same thing as a website. This way you could just navigate to the devices's IP and set an image or change settings.

Even with latest update, I still experience random dimming (it just comes and goes). Pressing the side button restores brightness for awhile. Don't know if this is software or hardware issue. If it's just me experiencing this, must be hardware issue.

Otherwise a great app.

I would like to display images of my family on the EO1, but don't want to add or make these images public. It would be great if we could access via the API private photos. I assume this would require auth-ing to the API

For one, if someone knows your tag or the electricobjectslives tag they will be able to display whatever they want on your display. I've already seen nudity on the electricobjectslives tag and while I don't personally care, I'm sure many users would not be happy with those images (or something worse) showing up on their display.

I personally think the ideal solution is something that uses only a users own media, ideally private. For me, being able to specify a tag that I use on my own private media on flickr would be ideal.

It would be nice to be able to show just a single piece or media or a small collection of media. I wonder if its possible via setting up something like a "Live" album and having the app show whatever is in this album

After launching the app, a dark spot appears at the top of screen, horizontally centered, like if one of the led backlighting the screen was turned off.

It remains even when switching to another app (e.g. firefox) or when the app crashes, but disappears when the EO1 is rebooted.

might be worth adding instructions to install firefox? Happy to do this unless I'm missing something about making the built in browser work.

I'm noticing that my EO1 is basically always dimmed and Ideally it would not be :)

I only show a single image at a time so I've had my slideshow number very large (in the thousands, I forget the exact number). This works, but I have an issue where the frame will dim to the point the image isn't visible. I got curious and recently turned the slideshow timer down to just 5 as a test. I found that at this value my display does not dim anymore (yay!)

However, now I have a new issue. For some reason after a unknown amount of time (probably around an hour or so?) my frame will switch from my tag with a single image to showing the public EO feed. I still haven't figured out why this happens, but I figured it was worth an issue!

Successfully downloaded and installed via mirror. When configuring I get a Flickr failure: Check API error. API is entered correctly. Created a different API and tried with that - same result.

Any thoughts on what I am doing wrong? Thanks

So I got the app installed.

I initially got the wrong Flickr UserId - I used User Name instead - so I got a bunch of random art which wasn't mine.

So I replaced it with my valid UserId.

Now, when I restart the EO1, I get the "Electric Object" shapes for a bit, then the screen goes black.

All command keys, etc I try don't work - "C", Windows-B (browser), etc, etc. No affect. Ctrl-Alt-Delete appears to "restart" the device, but I don't even get the EO shapes.

I fear it's bricked. Any suggestions?

Firstly thanks very much for all your efforts in keeping these frames relevant.

I previously used the Electric Objects web login to point my frames to Google Slides embedded URLs. I made slideshows including realistic looking photo frames, and multi-picture frames (slides) etc, and that worked great. When I powered on the EO2s, they'd boot up and access the URLs then the slideshow would start.
Here's a link to how that works in Google Slides, the Electric Objects website is obviously gone but it had an option to display a URL, which I don't think was available on the apps.
https://support.braincert.com/kb/article/198/creating-a-google-slides-embed-url-a-detailed-step-by-step-guide

Would it be possible to have this option built into your APK? This would get around the 'public' image issue on Flickr.

Thanks again for your time.

I'm trying to use a custom tag to pick media to display on my display. The issue I'm currently running into is that after tying in a tag and selecting "save" I'm getting the electricobjectslives feed. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, but no matter what I do the tag ends up as an empty string so the code defaults to electricobjectslives.

Hi!

Thank you very much for your work and instructions to get the EO1 functional again. I greatly appreciate it.

I have been working to try to follow the steps outlined in the README.

I get to "Getting Art" dialog, hit WINDOWS + B to open a web browser and I am stuck.

I have tried multiple different keyboards (windows and mac keyboards) and I have tried hitting the keys at different moments in the booting process vs what I think is the stuck part of "getting art". Do you have any tips?

Below are screenshots of where I am trying to hit "WINDOWS + B" and running into the problem. Is the issue that I am not actually at the "Getting Art" screen and I am stuck because the EO1 cannot connect to the wifi?

Is there a more exhaustive list of keyboard shortcuts I can try to bring something up?

Thank you again!

Thank you, random internet person (aka Dan), for resuscitating my Electric Object and giving it life again. Your work is appreciated 🙏