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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/hartez on 2025-06-04 17:43:37+00:00.
We bought a Nixplay digital frame years ago which required uploading our photos to their cloud to get them onto the frame (no local USB or SD card). Nixplay recently changed the subscription prices so it seemed like a good time to move off their service and host the photos locally. I opened up the frame, found the unused internal USB port, replaced the frame software with my own, and set up a local photo server for it on our Synology. I wrote up the whole process here: https://ezhart.com/posts/digital-frame-hacking-1
Except for some Dropbox syncing (for my wife's convenience), the whole thing is hosted within our home network. I wrote my own custom frame software and server, but for folks who are using Immich the first two parts of the write-up might be useful if you want to sideload ImmichFrame.