[Feature] please make Immich.com/albums/albumid/slideshow a link that starts the slideshow directly

[Tsamsiyu1]

I have searched the existing feature requests to make sure this is not a duplicate request.

• Yes

The feature

if you have a fotoframe that can access webpages then it would be awesome if you could start an slideshow via a link.
So when you access:
yourImmichDomain.com/albums/albumID/slideshow
that it loads directly into the slideshow.

Platform

• Server
• Web
• Mobile

[bo0tzz]

https://github.com/immichFrame/ImmichFrame
https://github.com/damongolding/immich-kiosk

[Tsamsiyu1]

I had ImmichFrame setup on my grandmums Tablet. It worked fine untill they decided to delete the server on christmas on modile devices. now it does not work anymore. the app is just a web browser now.
they now what to have an extra docker contaiuner to run the server component that was before running in the app.
so now i need to either run a server at home and have all the pictures exposed to the internet. thats exactly the reason why pretty much all of uss went away from google photos and started with immich. or i need to buy a small pc that can runn as a server for immichFrame.

Since I have multiple grandmas and they all got a frame from me i need to havemultiple Servers run in all their homes. so 40€ for a raspery pi and all its components.

So Immich-Kiosk needs a server too so there it is the same.

[bo0tzz]

run in all their homes

Why? You can just run those on the same server you run Immich on, right?

[Tsamsiyu1]

immich has a login thatsd fine to expose to the internet.
ImmichFrame does not have a login. it just creates a webpage that shows all the immages in the selected Album.
When i expose that to the internet everybody who has the webpage can see the fotos in the album.
Since there are a lot of photos of my baby girl i don't want to have openly on the internet i won't expose that to the internet without some kind of authentification.
I could use cloudflare Zero trust Auth but Imich Frame does not support that.
Between ImmichFrame (server) and Immich is a secure connection that is accesed via the Token. but between the ImmichFrame server and the client is no Authentification at all. this means the only way to run this secure is to have a dedicated server for immichFrame that is run in the same network as the client.

A Month ago they had the mobile app that was server and client in one app. that worked perfect but they decided to delete the server part to have it easier to push updates to many different devices. But this means the app is now only a browser that opens the server url.

[Tsamsiyu1]

Just to help anybody who has the same problem as me. I coded an Android app that uses the immich API to download an album and display it in a slideshow. It shows the time and date and you can set change intervall of the images and all server stuff (url, album id and api token) and the intervall of it reloading images of the album if there are any new.
every start it loads the current list from the server, downloads all missing images and deletes all images that ar not in the album anymore.
this took me about 8 hours of trial and error and coding^^ but it does not need an extra server running and it stores the images locally.
I will add some more stuff and make it more flexable and will then post a link here or maybe publish it on the play store.