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Meural Canvas II storage
I have 3 Meural canvas II's and have added images to all 3. Do the images actually get stored in the device or just on the cloud? In other words, if I turn off the wifi in my home, will the canvas ...
What did you end up doing? I'm also out of storage
There is a slot next to the power on button on the bottom that you can load a SD card slot with additional photos. There are comments regarding this from other owners with suggestions if you do a search. You can load a large amount of your personal photos this way, but it has certain limitations.
For the money, I think 4 GB of photos is laughable. I am hoping Netgear increases this storage.
I have mentioned to Netgear that if I max out on their storage, I cannot buy any more of their photos. I filled my 4 GB in just about a month after buying the canvas, mostly with my personal photos. But I have hundreds more to add to various playlists.
I hope this helps you.
Kids bought this for me for my birtday. Frustrated with the internal storage and bought a micro SD card. Loaded over a thousand pictures but you can't control the card from the app. That is crazy. Makes it so difficult to manage.
Can't figure out how to add the meural museum art to my playlist.
For such an expensive frame you would think they would make this consumer friendly.
Any help or guidance appreciated
Something for everybody to consider regarding storage. The Meural displays a max resolution of ~2MP (1920x1080). Cameras and images downloaded from the web regularly exceed this resolution; if you store/save that image with a significantly higher resolution, the Meural will indeed downsize it for the display. But it also means you are using a larger portion of your Meural space to hold that image than necessary, since the Meural is dropping pixels anyway. So resizing images to a lower resolution will save you space (both in Meural cloud storage or on an SD card). Also the format you choose can make a difference. JPEG/JPG is a compressed format that will use much less space than PNG. a 1920x1080 image should be ~425k as a JPEG, ~1.2MB as a PNG. If you spend some time downsizing images you can save space. Experiment with downsizing to see the resulting image quality; you may find that Meural's software does a better job of downsizing to 1920x1080 if you give it a 3840x2160 (~8MB uncompressed) image than if you downsize all the way to 1920x1080 yourself. But I don't expect you'll lose a lot of quality if you make the effort to take an image that's currently 16000x9000 (~144MB) and reduce it to 3840x2160 before sending it to the Meural.
Just some thoughts.
I am more or less in the same situation. I bought the canvasII for my wife's bthday, for exactly that use case, storing our pictures locally in a SD card as we don't want to upload our personal pictures in Netgear's cloud.
Now I cannot make the SD card work. I have done all I have read in these posts, but the canvas would not recognize the SD card.
Netgear support does not even answer my e-mails.
But based on your post, even if I make it work, I cannot manage the SD from the app???!!! This is insane!!
Clearly, this product has an extremely good quality of image, but the usability with local storage sucks, and the Netgear customer support team is non-existing.
I regret having bought it...
Correct. I finally got the sd card working but the app won't control it. Even if you set the schedule to go off at night and back on in the morning, it won't turn onto the sd card so what a waste.
As I got a free year of cloud storage I put everything there for now. After the year, I am back to the same problem.
Screen quality GREAT
Memrory, Software and App - Sucks
Tech Support - leads a lot to desire
Good luck