Photo display on a tablet

I wanted to showcase some of our personal photos on an always-on-ish Android tablet at home. Some thoughts from that project:

• Hardware:
  • ”Digital photo frames“ seem like a good idea but only for less tech-savvy people.
  • Tablet seems most extensible as we can later use it for other purposes too.
• Apps:
  • Fotoo is a nice app for Android tablets.
    • Samba, local and cloud libraries.
    • Maybe find a way to sync photos to the tablet.
  • “Public” album on Immich.
    • Though, no way to get random images from such an album.
    • Can show slideshow from their app but I’ll need to create a new guest user plus manually start it every time on the tablet.
  • https://www.fully-kiosk.com/, plus it integrates with Home Assistant.
    • Can make the tablet sluggish.
    • Immich public albums don’t have slideshow feature.
  • Wall panel - add on in HA.
    • https://smarthomescene.com/guides/wallpanel-home-assistant-screensaver-for-your-wall-mounted-control-panel/
    • https://github.com/j-a-n/lovelace-wallpanel
    • There is no get random image from shared album API.
    • Huge benefit is that this is infinitely customizable through HA. For e.g., adding a music control.
  • https://github.com/outadoc/immich-home-assistant