Run PictureFrame.py without indexing?

[Ascendin81]

Hi, is there a way to run PictureFrame.py without indexing all the pictures, just pull the EXIF data as it loads each photo? I am trying to run it on a database several though pictures, like 50K photos, and it takes 6hrs+ just to index them. Thank you.

[paddywwoof]

Hi, are you wanting to use the application purely to gather the EXIF data and not show the pictures at all? In that case you might be better off installing github.com/helgeerbe/picframe as that uses an sqlite3 database and tries to do all the indexing in the background rather than 'as it goes along' like PictureFrame.py. That was one of the main factors in forking the project.

Or, if you are happy to load the info into a python dict as PictureFrame.py does you could hack the code to stop it showing the pictures at all and just looping through the exif loading... BUT if you want to get the geo location info you mustn't spam the free service by making more than about one request per second. So 50k photos should take 14h for that!