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A Raspberry Pi on a monitor

A Raspberry Pi 3 or newer with Raspberry Pi OS (with desktop) runs the wall well, and costs little to leave on all day.

1. Set up the Pi with Raspberry Pi Imager: Raspberry Pi OS with desktop, your Wi-Fi, and automatic login.
2. Open hestiacalendar.com/tv in Chromium. On your phone, open hestiacalendar.com/link and type the code. The Pi now opens your wall from hestiacalendar.com/tv every time.
3. Turn off screen blanking: Raspberry Pi menu → Preferences → Raspberry Pi Configuration → Display → Screen Blanking off.
4. Start the wall full screen on boot. On current Raspberry Pi OS (labwc), add this line to ~/.config/labwc/autostart:

   chromium --kiosk --noerrdialogs --disable-session-crashed-bubble https://hestiacalendar.com/tv &

5. Restart. To turn the picture for a tall screen, use Preferences → Screen Configuration.

Hestia reloads itself after an update and keeps working through short network drops.

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• A TV or any screen with a web browser
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• Chromecast and Google TV
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• An iPad or Android tablet
  Add it to the home screen, pair it, and keep it awake.
• Google Calendar
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• Apple Calendar and other calendar links
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• An iCloud shared album
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• Photos from Google Photos
  Pick photos in Google Photos and Hestia copies them to your wall.
• Framing photos
  Move and zoom any photo, choose which ones show, and how often.