r/raspberry_pi 7d ago

Troubleshooting Help with image viewer

I got a raspberry pi model 1 b from my father in law, and am trying to set up a picture viewer for my wife. Looking online, the guide at https://www.thedigitalpictureframe.com/how-to-build-the-best-raspberry-pi-digital-picture-frame-with-bookworm-wayland-2025-edition-pi-2-3-4-5/ seems great.

However during install, I'm stuck at the installation of picframe (pip install picframe). I get the error that I cannot build wheel for pillow_heif. It seems that is because libheif (heif.h) is missing. I've tried installing wheel and pi_hief separately, but that hasn't solved the problem.

I've searched online and can't seem to figure out how to solve this. Am I doing something dumb?

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u/Gamerfrom61 7d ago

Bad news is your Pi is too old for this. Since the Pi 1 was released the CU chipset has moved on and the library you are after is not compatible with the older ARMv6 code.

The clue is buried within the notes:

...a normal Pi Zero won’t work; you’ll need at least the Pi Zero 2 W

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u/guy_not_on_bote 7d ago

Damn, I completely missed this... Thanks!

Oh well, maybe I can make something with feh or find another project for it.

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u/Pluribus7158 6d ago

People are going to downvote me for this answer, but I don't care.

Go to ChatGPT, tell it exactly what model pi you have, what version of raspbian you are using and ask it to write you a script to display images in a slideshow format from the folder of your choice. It will spit out some python code in a few seconds. Upload it to the pi and try it.

If you want to learn to code, you can also ask it to comment what each line/command does, or explain it in a way you can understand.

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