Using FrameChannel with the Digital Spectrum Wireless Picture Frame
The Digital Spectrum frame is set up using the onscreen menu and keyboard. Setting up your Digital Spectrum frame to showcase all your FrameChannel images can be completed in minutes. FrameChannel just posted some very useful instructions on setting up Digital Spectrum frames. Check them out HERE
A few notes on the set up process:
After you plug your frame in and enter the date and time, you’ll be ready to set up the RSS feed from your FrameChannel account.
The first thing you need to do is set Digital Spectrum as you frame type in your FrameChannel account settings.
If your internet connection requires a network key, you’ll want to have that handy before you start the set up process.
Using the keyboard on the DigitalSpectrum frame can be a bit tedious, but you’ll only have to set up your RSS feed info once. You will need to use the Shift button to enter capital letters and common symbols, such as “&” and “?”, both of which are used in most of the RSS feed addresses.
What if FrameChannel doesn’t appear as an option?
Have you connected your frame to the wireless network and entered the RSS feed address, but FrameChannel still doesn’t appear as an option on the Photo sharing website menu?
First, ensure that you are connected to the correct wireless network. Then, check that you have entered the RSS feed info correctly. With such a long address, it’s easy to make a mistake!
As noted in the instructions, your frame will update itself with any changes made to your FrameChannel account only as often as is set by the Frame Update Frequency settings in your account. The default setting is 15 minutes, so any changes made to your channels from your account won’t appear immediately. You can change this setting for a faster response time if desired.
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2 Comments
Emily Logan wrote at December 5th, 2007 at 12:15 pm
The issue it seems is with Digital Spectrum, not FrameChannel. We tested out a few things on one of our Digital Spectrum frames and anytime we added a custom RSS feed to the FrameChannel account, from PhotoBucket or another site (like Wire Image), FrameChannel was disabled as a choice on the list of photo sharing websites on the frame.
It seems as if Digital Spectrum is not allowing any RSS feeds it doesn’t support (the list given on the DS website includes: My MemoryFrame, framechannel, Flickr, Window LiveSpaces, and Webshots). There must be a white list somewhere on DS’s server that is disabling any RSS feed it doesn’t recognize.
Even if I add the PhotoBucket RSS feed address directly into the frame (where you normally put in the FrameChannel feed info), PhotoBucket never shows up as an option.
We already spoke with DigitalSpectrum to make them aware of this issue. They are rolling out an update at the end of the month so hopefully, if this has been recognized it will be included. If not, they’re now aware of it and can make some adjustments to their server.
For now, I’d say just make the PhotoBucket feed inactive while you‚re running FrameChannel until Digital Spectrum makes the appropriate changes. Thank you very much for your thorough testing on this and for making us aware of this issue. I’m sure DigitalSpectrum will be very grateful if they weren’t already aware of this!
Look for a post on this topic and some FAQ‚s on the website coming soon!!
Banta wrote at December 3rd, 2007 at 10:57 pm
Hello, and great post! I have this set up. FrameChannel is the greatest service I have come across in a long time. I am loving it. However, I am having a problem and was hoping for some possible help.
I had FrameChannel showing up as an option once. Then, I changed my feed to a Flickr feed. Just experimenting with the new frame. When I went back to try and get the FrameCHannel feed, it was no longer an option. The only way I can get it to show up as an option is to put the INCORRECT log in information. Of course, then I don’t connect. When I put the correct information in, there is no longer a FrameChannel Option.
I am stumped as to why this is happening. Do you have any thoughts?
Any advice will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!