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Samsung’s Frame TVis beautiful and expensive.
When it’s not in use, it displays works of art.
But if you have smart TV already, you could accomplish something similar with an app or Chromecast.
Of course, your TV will use more power if it’s displaying images instead of powered off.
Whether it’s a Roku, Chromecast, or Fire TV, you might approximate the Frame TV experience.
Choosing Your Images
Before you continue, think about what you want to show on your TV.
If you’re using a Chromecast, you’ll load your photos to Google Photos.
For FireTVs you’ll upload to Amazon Photos.
Roku TVs can use either images from your phone or Google Photos.
And Apple TVs use iCloud storage for their screensavers.
Google Photos offers unlimited storage for photos if you let it reduce the size of the picture.
If you want full resolution, you only have16 GBs for free.
iCloud offers five GBs of free space and charges $1 a month for 50 GBs of space.
Family photos that fit everyone in the frame will most likely work well too.
Choose the screensaver option, then the album you created with the photos you’d like to display.
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Alternatively, you could use Google Photos to power your Roku screensaver.
The benefit is, you might change out what photos display from any computer, tablet, or phone.
All you have to do is add or remove photos from the connected album.
To display a Google Photo album screensaver, you will need to install thePhoto View channel.
Go to parameters > ScreenSaver > Change Screensaver.
Then pick the PhotoView option.
In any case, you should curate an album specifically for your TV.
Portrait orientated photos, selfies, and so on likely won’t display very nicely on a large television.
Family photos, on the other hand, can work well provided they are oriented horizontally.
But it does have its own easy to use options.
All it’s crucial that you do is turn on the screensaver option and accept all defaults.
Orsign in on the web.
Amazon Photos offers unlimited storage for Prime users or 5 GB’s of space for everyone else.
Once you get in, upload the photos you prefer and create a folder for them.
On your FireTV, go to screen saver parameters and change the source to your album.
To display art, launch the Google Home app and find your Chromecast equipment.
Tap on it, tap Ambient mode, tap Art Gallery, and then you’re done.
Then choose that Google Photos Album in the Ambient tweaks.
As long as you have those two aspects covered, any method you choose should lead to great results.
Here, you’ll be given a choice of what album to use.
