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Scope thumbnail access to the frame's own photos; validate Gitea repo URL
Two fixes from a security pass over the server:

- /api/frames/{id}/thumbnail/{asset_id} accepted any asset id and
  fetched it via the frame owner's Immich credentials, unscoped to what
  that frame actually shows -- a user merely linked to view a frame
  could pull thumbnails for any asset in the owner's whole library, not
  just the frame's own album. Now scoped to current_asset_id/queue,
  matching the check device.frame_share and manage.manage_thumbnail
  already both apply.

- firmware_update_repo_url now has to be a plain http(s) URL. Unlike a
  one-off manual firmware upload (a deliberate, explicit act -- left
  alone), auto-update from a repo is a standing trust relationship: the
  frame keeps fetching from it and, with auto-update on, installs
  whatever it finds with nobody reviewing it first. Added a plain-
  language note next to the checkbox saying exactly that.
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ESPresso Frame

A DIY e-ink photo frame: an ESP32-C6 pulls photos from your Immich library and displays them on a 7.3" full-color e-paper panel, waking on a timer to refresh and spending the rest of its time in deep sleep.

  • No cables to a computer, no SD card shuffling. Provisioning is a captive portal with a QR code drawn on the panel itself -- scan, join, fill in your WiFi and server address, done.
  • The frame never decodes an image. A small self-hosted server does all the work (pulling from Immich, cropping, dithering, packing into the panel's exact pixel format) and hands the device a stream it can write straight to SPI. The ESP32-C6 has no PSRAM and not much SRAM to spare -- keeping it a dumb display client is what makes that workable.
  • Crops toward faces, not just the center, using face bounding boxes Immich already computed for its own People feature -- no bundled face detector.
  • Refresh interval and album are configurable from a web UI, no reflashing needed to change them.

Hardware

See docs/hardware.md for wiring and docs/architecture.md for how the two halves talk to each other.

Getting started

  1. server/ -- run the FastAPI server first (Docker Compose, points at your Immich instance). See server/README.md.
  2. firmware/ -- build and flash the ESP32-C6, then scan the QR codes it draws on first boot to provision it. See firmware/README.md.

Repo layout

firmware/   ESP-IDF project for the ESP32-C6
server/     FastAPI server: Immich -> crop/dither/pack -> the frame
docs/       Wiring and architecture notes

License

MIT -- see LICENSE. A few small pieces of vendored third-party code (a QR code generator, a bitmap font table) keep their own permissive licenses; see LICENSE for details.


Built with substantial assistance from Claude Code.

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