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Help - Photos on my TV?

Bolderhumphreyreid
Bolderhumphreyreid Posts: 2,553
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We've got a new TV in the house and for those times we’re not watching anything I really want to just play in the background a slideshow of photos that we’ve got stashed away on the PC.

We take so many photos and they just sit on the PC so I really want to use them.

It’s important that they play in a random order like a shuffle.

I’ve got an LG TV if that helps.

Thanks in advance.

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  • Pringle
    Pringle Posts: 464
    Can you put them on a memory stick and plug it into the TV? 
  • To_Be_Franck
    To_Be_Franck Posts: 1,095
    Make sure honeymoon snaps aren't on the stick, guests could be in for a shock
  • Bolderhumphreyreid
    Bolderhumphreyreid Posts: 2,553
    Pringle said:
    Can you put them on a memory stick and plug it into the TV? 
    Yep. Would I be able to shuffle them then?
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,335
    Bolderhumphreyreid said:
    Pringle said:
    Can you put them on a memory stick and plug it into the TV? 
    Yep. Would I be able to shuffle them then?
    Blimey.  How many memory sticks have you got?
  • JohnBoyUK
    JohnBoyUK Posts: 9,018
    I have done this on my Amazon Firebox.  All my images automatically update from my NAS to my unlimited photo storage on Amazon Drive (free unlimited .jpeg files with an Amazon Prime subscription) and you can use your albums for your screensavers or a slideshow, whatever takes your fancy.

    We’ve only got Samsung and Sony Smart TVs in our household so can’t help with LG specifics.
  • Sillybilly
    Sillybilly Posts: 9,236
    Can you show photos from an iPhone X direct to a Smart TV (Panasonic). I’ve tried but not getting anywhere. My laptop is knackered so can’t go via iTunes or whatever. 
  • DoctorCharlton
    DoctorCharlton Posts: 2,463
    Sillybilly said:
    Can you show photos from an iPhone X direct to a Smart TV (Panasonic). I’ve tried but not getting anywhere. My laptop is knackered so can’t go via iTunes or whatever. 

    I'm not a tech expert by any means, but I think you might need Apple TV for that.
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,619
    Never been easy to put photos on tv’s since the onset of flat screens. I know mine keep falling off.
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    Send em in to Tony Hart, hope he selects em to go in The Gallery, record it and play it. Roberts you dad's brother 
  • snowinberlin
    snowinberlin Posts: 807
    You could use a chromecast and beam from any android device 
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  • Solidgone
    Solidgone Posts: 10,208
    Use double sided tape. 
  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,268
    Chromecast is the best for this IMO
  • Dazzler21
    Dazzler21 Posts: 51,344
    edited October 2019
    sam3110 said:
    Chromecast is the best for this IMO
    This. You get time, date and weather on the screen too so it's a fantastic screen saver. Link to Google Photos through the Home app, select the albums you want to display as slideshow and boom. Done.
  • Bolderhumphreyreid
    Bolderhumphreyreid Posts: 2,553
    Thanks for your suggestions.

    After a lot of googling I've found the following works really well...

    1. Download all photos to Google Photos.
    2. Download an app called Soloslides to my iPad.
    3. Screen share my iPad with the LG TV and play the Soloslides slideshow.

    Google Photos is incredibly annoying in the fact it doesn't have a shuffle option for the slideshow. Soloslides takes the photos from Google Photos and creates this really easily.

    Thanks again.
  • Sillybilly
    Sillybilly Posts: 9,236
    Bolderhumphreyreid said:
    Thanks for your suggestions.

    After a lot of googling I've found the following works really well...

    1. Download all photos to Google Photos.
    2. Download an app called Soloslides to my iPad.
    3. Screen share my iPad with the LG TV and play the Soloslides slideshow.

    Google Photos is incredibly annoying in the fact it doesn't have a shuffle option for the slideshow. Soloslides takes the photos from Google Photos and creates this really easily.

    Thanks again.
    Cheers @Bolderhumphreyreid. I’ll give that a go in the iPhone. 
  • Dazzler21
    Dazzler21 Posts: 51,344
    Bolderhumphreyreid said:
    Thanks for your suggestions.

    After a lot of googling I've found the following works really well...

    1. Download all photos to Google Photos.
    2. Download an app called Soloslides to my iPad.
    3. Screen share my iPad with the LG TV and play the Soloslides slideshow.

    Google Photos is incredibly annoying in the fact it doesn't have a shuffle option for the slideshow. Soloslides takes the photos from Google Photos and creates this really easily.

    Thanks again.
    Mine displays photos in a shuffled order? Not sure why yours would differ?
  • Bolderhumphreyreid
    Bolderhumphreyreid Posts: 2,553
    Dazzler21 said:
    Bolderhumphreyreid said:
    Thanks for your suggestions.

    After a lot of googling I've found the following works really well...

    1. Download all photos to Google Photos.
    2. Download an app called Soloslides to my iPad.
    3. Screen share my iPad with the LG TV and play the Soloslides slideshow.

    Google Photos is incredibly annoying in the fact it doesn't have a shuffle option for the slideshow. Soloslides takes the photos from Google Photos and creates this really easily.

    Thanks again.
    Mine displays photos in a shuffled order? Not sure why yours would differ?
    That sounds good.

    How do you get it to do that?
  • Dazzler21
    Dazzler21 Posts: 51,344
    I'll take a look tonight and let you know the process
  • robinofottershaw
    robinofottershaw Posts: 1,921
    Bolderhumphreyreid said:
    We've got a new TV in the house and for those times we’re not watching anything I really want to just play in the background a slideshow of photos that we’ve got stashed away on the PC.

    We take so many photos and they just sit on the PC so I really want to use them.

    It’s important that they play in a random order like a shuffle.

    I’ve got an LG TV if that helps.

    Thanks in advance.
    I can link up my Apple MacBook to our Sony 4K HDR TV and do what you are wanting to do. It should be straight-forward provided you have a spare HDMI port on your TV and that your laptop also has an HDMI port in order you can link the two. 

    Turn on both TV and laptop, then switch the TV to the appropriate HDMI port (on my TV remote I hit "Discover" and the 4 HDMI ports are listed amongst other things and I just select the port number in which I have the cable going from TV to laptop), and then you should see whatever is on your laptop screen on your TV screen. Then on your laptop, go to your photos and then select the appropriate photo folder and turn on screenshow. Whichever software you have for photos on your laptop should either allow you to show the photos in order or in shuffle mode.

    Hope this works for you also.

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