0.7.0

Please note that this release contains separate packages targeting Debian 11 (bullseye) and 12 (bookworm). You can check your version of Debian with lsb_release -c command.

Version 0.7.0 release adds a --source-size option with which you can control the size of the photo as fetched from Synology Photos (the photo will still be resized to fill the entire screen, no matter which setting is used). The available options are:

• s: small (360x240)
• m: medium (481x320)
• l: large (1922x1280)

The default, when not specified, is l (large) and this is also consistent with previous versions of the app. The resolution values are dictated by Synology Photos API, so the usability of this option is limited to a very low-resolution screens. On such systems however you can reduce network and CPU utilization by using lower size setting. On high resolution screens, using a small size setting will result in visible quality degradation.

Another thing is a slight re-arrangement of the operations, so that next photo does not start fetching in the background before the transition animation from previous photo is completed. This is mainly to not fight for resources on low-end systems such as RPi Zero, which could affect smoothness of fade-in effect. On anything more powerful you will not notice the difference.