Features Art

A frame that is not just a frame

Anything can cycle through pictures. A screen that knows the weather, the light in the room and who walked in can choose which picture belongs there now — and tell you about it when you ask.

Smart Art Canvas

Shown properly

Work is fitted rather than cropped, with a mat filling the space around it, because cutting the edges off a painting to fill a rectangle is what makes a digital frame look cheap. Slow movement keeps a static image from sitting on the same pixels for hours.

  • Fitted by default, with a mat colour of your choosing
  • Slow pan and zoom to protect the panel
  • Captions with artist, year and where it came from

Chosen for the room

Art can follow the weather and the time of day, favouring work whose palette suits a grey afternoon or a bright morning. The lights can be matched to the picture too — a light strip is lit along the painting, blue at one end and gold at the other, and an ordinary bulb takes its strongest colour. Works with Home Assistant, with WLED, or with both at once.

Ask it what you are looking at

With the assistant enabled you can ask about the piece in front of you and get the artist, the period and the story, spoken aloud — the part a printed label never manages.

Where people use it

The living room, most of the time

A rotating exhibition rather than a black rectangle above the fireplace.

Your own photographs

Upload an album and let it run as an exhibition, with the same care given to framing.

Questions

Where does the curated art come from?

Open-access museum collections, with the credit line and licence shown alongside each work.

Can I use my own pictures?

Yes. Upload an album and it is treated exactly like a collection.

Will it burn the screen?

Slow movement means no pixel holds a value for long. Schedule the panel off overnight if it is somewhere it is never seen.

Put it on the wall

Start free on one screen. No card until you add a second.