iMate Momento 70 7” WiFi Digital Picture Frame for $79.99
This woot has expired. Look at this review of the iMate.
On sellout.woot.com they are offering the iMate 7″ Wifi frame for $79.99 plus $5 S&H.
I have one and stream photos to it from a Vista machine. It likes to play with Windows Media Connect so It will not pull photos from WHS. It’s also a Sideshow supported device. I’m sure it would work just fine with the Media Player Mod for WHS.
I currently have a Windows Media Player advanced playlist created that displays only the last two weeks of photos. I love this feature of the frame.
The screen is mediocre at best. There is also a 10.2″ version available at times. These have been popular Woot Off items. I’ve seen better frames but it’s well worth the price and the wifi has a high cool factor.
The Media Center Show also has a look at the frame.
June 10th, 2008 at 8:08 am
Just bought one of these frames. What do you mean when you say ‘Media Player Mod for WHS’? My photos are stored on my WHS box but managed throught WMP11 on a separate Vista machine. After pointing the frame to the Vista machine it will not pull the (WHS) photos through WMP11 (nor will it pull photos if I point it directly to the WHS). I was hoping maybe this might help.
June 11th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
Hi FirstSalvo,
I’m using the iMate and pulling photos from a Vista machine. I am anxious to use WHS as my library but right now I’m simply backing up my Vista box to it.
I will test a playlist that pulls photos from WHS. I assume you are trying an Auto Playlist?
In Windows Media Player I right-click Playlists and create an Auto Playlist. If you Picture library is on WHS managed by Vista I would think it would work.
June 13th, 2008 at 9:46 am
After doing some research it appears that the problem is that WHS utilizes an older version of Windows Media Connect (WMC 2.0) where the Momento frame apparently needs WMC 4.0 to work correctly… that’s why I can’t connect directly to the WHS to pull photos. However my Vista machine, which has WMP11 and an integrated/improved version of WMC 4.0 can serve the photos just fine to the frame (if the photos are stored locally on the same machine as WMP11). Unfortunately there is no longer a way to install the standalone WMC 4.0 on the WHS and the install of WMP11 won’t work either on the WHS for its not supported for Server 2003 (WHS core). There is a hack to get WMP11 onto WHS but I’m not prepared to risk it… my WHS is rock solid and I want to keep it that way. So the question is now why can’t the frame pull photos (on the WHS) through WMP11 on my Vista machine? Well apparently it can but Vista by default blocks ‘remote content sharing’. So more digging yielded an answer to this (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/faq/sharing.mspx#q20_17). I followed the steps to ‘enable remote content sharing’ (on my Vista machine with the WMP11 library) and then did what it said to ‘grant anonymous permission to access folders on other computers’ (to the photos folder on the WHS). The result was positive but not complete. When I point the frame at my Vista machine it now recognizes the folders and photos stored on the WHS (shown in the WMP11 library) however when I drill into a folder all it shows is the default Momento icon for each photo (the thumbnail doesn’t populate) however it shows the correct number of pictures in each folder as well as the correct number of 5-star photos. Unfortunately when I hit play to start viewing the photos in that particular folder the frame craps out and jumps over to the Favorite section of the frame. My thoughts are that maybe it might be a wireless/network problem now… not sure. Since its recognizing the folders and correct number of photos I would think that the sharing is set up right now. I’ll keep at it.