I’d probably suggest raising an issue on the Immich github as a feature request. You said that there’s already a slideshow feature present, just without a customizable interval, should be easy (even if low priority probably) for the Immich guys to add.

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If the old tablet is Android, Fotoo is perfect. Yes it costs, but one off fee and worth it. Can pull from so many different sources.

Personally, I still use Google Photos. Both my wife and I have us, the kids and pets all autotagged into an album for all the pictures taken on our phones and Fotoo randomly shows these on the Nexus 7 tablet I have taped into a wooden frame.

So I’ve been working on a setup myself. I actually haven’t considered immich but I should. I was just going to do a simple js based webpage local server that auto boots chromium into kiosk mode and randomly switches pictures. I actually had it set up so it weights new photos more heavily so it shows new additions more frequently.

The way I got new photos in was a nextcloud webdav mount. That way my wife and I can just add photos to a folder from our phones and they show up on the frame. I saw a guide online on how to do that with Google Drive too.

So all that to say, that might be an option for you to get photos to a folder. Then maybe point immich to that folder as a source.

Looks Like something you could do with a pretty simple python script.

Digital frames are cool at the beginning, but you will soon look at it as much as at normal frames.

Btt:

If you only want to have slideshow for one album, download it and use a gallery app for this, sure new pictures are not included automatically, that is the only downside. You could use a foldersync app for this. Push new pictures from the mobile phone to your server and download them on the tablet