Tutorial - Setting Up Simple Internet "Photo Sharing - Digi-Frame DF-1710 User Manual

Tutorial – Setting Up Simple Internet "Photo Sharing"
A popular application of digital picture frames has been to give one to a friend or relative for installation in their
home where you can send them pictures over the internet. You can do this with your DF-1710, and you won't
have to pay any subscription fees! Here's how:
You'll need a web server, or more commonly, a personal website provided by your ISP. Most ISP's, such as
AOL and Earthlink provide free website space with each access account. If you've already set up a personal
website then you probably know how to upload files to your web space and create directories in it.
The recipient needs to have a DSL or cable modem and an available ethernet port (either on their LAN or
directly on their DSL/Cable router) for connecting the DF-1710 to the internet.
First you'll need to decide how you're going to organize the pictures and scripts on the web server. You could
make a separate directory for each remote frame you're going to control, or just put all the pictures in one
directory for all remote frames. In any case, it's probably a good idea to keep the pictures in a directory
separate from your website files. Consult your ISP or server's documentation on how to set up directories and
upload files to them.
If you're using a free personal website provided by an ISP, the address of your website is usually a
"subdomain" of the ISP's domain, for example http://hometown.aol.com/yourname. If you've registered your
own domain then your website has its own name of your choosing, like http://www.mywebsite.com. In this
example, we'll assume you have a web domain called www.mywebsite.com, and that you've made a directory
on your site called "theirframe".
While you still have the DF-1710 you want to place at a remote location, write the following script and load it
on the frame using FTP mode:
http://www.mywebsite.com/theirframe/remote.txt
You can give this script any name (it must end in ".txt"), such as "family.txt". This is the name that will appear
in the "Select Slideshow" menu. This script tells the frame to download and execute the nested script
"remote.txt" from your website.
Once you've put "family.txt" (or whatever you named it) on the frame you can send it off to the recipient. The
recipient can use the DF-1710 to view their own slideshows at any time; your remote script will just be another
selectable slideshow in the menu system.
Next, decide what pictures you want displayed on the remote frame and upload them to the directory or
directories you've chosen on your web server. Let's say want the recipient's frame to show the following
pictures: picnic.jpg, wedding.jpg, and reunion.jpg.
Upload all of these picture files to the directory "theirframe" on your web server.
Now you need to write the actual script file that will be put on your server and control the slideshow,
"remote.txt". Your script file might look like this:
picnic.jpg
wedding.jpg
reunion.jpg
Upload the script file to the directory "theirframe" on your web server, being sure to give it the same name you
specifed in the script on the frame, i.e. "remote.txt".
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