Multiple Issues on First Attempt

[NateEaton]

Intrigued by this project, I have been trying to get it running on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W without success.

The first attempt using the published release image may or may not have run but I could find no sign that it was showing up on my home network. I've set up many, many rpi images and systems over the years so I'm not a stranger to getting them connected to my home wifi network but multiple attempts failed to get anything working.

Next, I explored, eventually finding the dadr repo and instructions for installing "V2". I've gone through that to the letter, even ensuring I was using Bullseye "legacy, lite" version in hopes it would have tvservice (based on having scanned the issues for mentions of running on a Zero).

I can access the web portal and I can connect via SSH. However, the screen on my 24" 4K HDMI monitor is blank (it's the only available monitor I have for testing this right now). On the web portal, it says "no display connected or detected". Checking the logs, it appears that besides "tvservice not found" there is also a network connectivity issue.

I've spent way more time trying to get this working than I planned and I'm getting the impression from the git repo that this isn't really being actively updated (at least not in terms of making available a full formal release for newer OS versions, Python 3, etc.).

I expected the biggest issue to be trying to get my own reverse proxy service set up but I'm not going to invest time in that without being able to at least see the system working.

Now that I've seen the web portal, I also realize it doesn't appear there is a way to select a specific Google Photos album. I guess if there is a relatively easy resolution to my problems with display and connectivity, then I would post a feature request for album filtering but right now that doesn't seem worth the trouble.

If someone can shed some light on how I might get this working enough to assess whether it is really going to meet my needs, I'd be very grateful.

I've included the log from web portal.

Photoframe Log Report.pdf