All,

Having followed up other advice on this group I had a look at the Kodak
PULSE digital frame w1030S 10in. Overall it looks very promising.
However the on-line documentation is an utter joke in terms of
explaining what the frame is capable of. I want to know if I can
configure the frame to display pictures based on my own RSS/ATOM feeds.
Has anybody done this? I want to share my photos with my parents and
other family members and have absolutely no wish to share them with
google picasa, facebook, flicker or Kodak.? Some documentation
describing any peculiarities of RSS feed format or even an example would
be very gratefully received.

The newer version of this frame has a model number of /w1030s. The S
standing for sharing or something, and it has all kinds of cute facebook
type integration. The new frame also has some kind of proximity
detector, so that the screen is only on when people are about. Great!

Dmitri(cabling-Design.com) had written this in response to
http://forums.cabling-design.com/homeautomation/Does-the-Kodak-PULSE-digital-frame-w1030s-or-w1030-work-with-19815-.htm
 :
Fergus McMenemie wrote:

> I want to know if I can
> configure the frame to display pictures based on my own RSS/ATOM feeds.
> Has anybody done this? I want to share my photos with my parents and
> other family members and have absolutely no wish to share them with
> google picasa, facebook, flicker or Kodak.? Some documentation
> describing any peculiarities of RSS feed format or even an example
> would be very gratefully received.

I honestly don't know the specs of the particular photo frame but I just
wanted to say that you shouldn't let a simple thing such as RSS format
stop you. There are plenty of Internet tools for translating feeds from
one format to another, most notably Google's Feedburner (
http://feedburner.google.com/ ) which will let you not only translate from
one format to another but also "clean" an RSS feed by making it
standard-compliant just in case some information in it is encoded wrong or
it just does not pass a standard parser for some reason. 

Feedburner's 'Photo Splicer' feature will let you create a
standard-compliant RSS feed out of your Flickr, Buzznet, or Webshots
pictures (why not Google's own Picasa - beats me). But you should be able
to splice to it another feed with pictures from Facebook, for example, if
it's already in RSS format.

You'll just need to point your frame to the Feedburner's RSS address
instead of the original one - should be easy to do in the frame's settings.

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Best Regards,
Dmitri Abaimov, RCDD
http://www.cabling-design.com/homecabling/
Home Cabling Guide, Cabling Forum, color codes, pinouts and other useful
resources for premises cabling users and pros



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Dmitri(cabling-Design.com) <info_at_cabling-design_dot_com@foo.com>
wrote:

> Dmitri(cabling-Design.com) had written this in response to
>  :
> Fergus McMenemie wrote:
> 
> > I want to know if I can
> > configure the frame to display pictures based on my own RSS/ATOM feeds.
> > Has anybody done this? I want to share my photos with my parents and
> > other family members and have absolutely no wish to share them with
> > google picasa, facebook, flicker or Kodak.? Some documentation
> > describing any peculiarities of RSS feed format or even an example
> > would be very gratefully received.
> 
> I honestly don't know the specs of the particular photo frame but I just
> wanted to say that you shouldn't let a simple thing such as RSS format
> stop you. There are plenty of Internet tools for translating feeds from
> one format to another, most notably Google's Feedburner (
> http://feedburner.google.com/ ) which will let you not only translate from
> one format to another but also "clean" an RSS feed by making it
> standard-compliant just in case some information in it is encoded wrong or
> it just does not pass a standard parser for some reason. 
> 

Thanks for the info. Howver I am quite happy messing with RSS in all its
flavours, the trick is discovering the correct flavour! Howver the big
ask is ... does the frame actually support RSS/Atom or is it something
totally porpietary and/or hardcoded to only connect to their own 
webservice?

fergus.