INSTALL AN IMAGE VIEWER ON THE PI – Single view and Slideshow

To install the FBI image viewer type the following in a terminal on your Pi:

sudo apt-get install fbi

To view an image type the following:

sudo fbi -d /dev/fb0 -a -T 2 0001.jpg

#  the -d /dev/fb0 flag calls a 'framebuffer'

#  the -T 2 is needed when controlling the pi via SSH - tells it to use the Terminal for input

To "unview" the image you have to kill the FBI process. To find the FBI process type:

ps -aux | grep fbi

# ps -aux lists all processes running which is then "piped" (|) to the grep search function which looks for any fbi processes

To kill the FBI process type:

sudo kill  [process id number]

To start a slideshow of images in a folder via SSH terminal

sudo fbi -d /dev/fb0 -a -T 2 -t 5 *.jpg

#  the - t  (lowercase) sets the time interval in seconds between images

To start a slideshow of images in a folder without the photo information on the bottom of the screen type:

sudo fbi -noverbose -a -t 10 -T 2 -d /dev/fb0 *.jpg