{"id":453,"date":"2018-07-13T16:57:39","date_gmt":"2018-07-13T23:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kylescholz.com\/wp\/?p=453"},"modified":"2018-11-03T12:02:09","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T19:02:09","slug":"digital-gallery-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kylescholz.com\/wp\/digital-gallery-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Gallery Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Final digital gallery wall.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Cycling images.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Cycling images again.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My wife is a serious amateur photographer. A few years ago, we created a photo wall in her office to showcase her framed images. We always intended to swap out the images with new photos over time, but 4 years later, the same images were in these frames…<\/p>\n

We thought about creating a digital photo wall that’s easy to update and can potentially show many more images. I bought a Meural Canvas digital frame a few months back to try it out and compare it to other options. The Meural Canvas<\/a> is a 27″ 1080p LCD display wrapped in an attractive wooden frame and matte. There is a film applied to the LCD panel that improves the display. In daylight conditions, it doesn’t look like an LCD display and most people would be fooled into thinking it’s an ordinary framed image.<\/p>\n

Meural devices have an onboard controller that connects to WIFI, so there would be no need to connect to an external display controller. They are ready-to-mount, so would require minimal hardware or wall preparation.<\/p>\n

The Merual Canvas looked good, so we decided to make a Gallery Wall with 6 Meural Canvases.<\/p>\n

Power<\/strong><\/p>\n

The biggest challenge was getting power to the devices. The Meural Canvas ships with a cloth power cord and large DC transformer. I didn’t want to dangle 6 cords to the floor and have a pile of transformers.<\/p>\n

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Bulky Meural transformers and cords.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Options I considered:<\/p>\n