It would be nice to have automatic content sync for users/employees working in an activity based clean desk/flex desk work space, for a way to personalize the office desk.
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Hello M Team! Being an owner of 2 27' Meurals there is something that I would like to see improved. I know that video playback is not the main idea of this frame but having that video playback is possible here is what is the issue with it. Video playback will be cut at the frame's set duration. So if I mix images with video and the video is longer than for example 3 min it will ignore video length and just skip to the next image/video. I hope you understand where I am going with it. I also have a vision of how this can be improved and how others as well could benefit. If we would use if/else variable and say that if the current playback file is a video -> ignore duration and just play the file from start to finish and then move to the next file that would fix this issue and provide a much better user experience. I hope my idea is clear and something like that can be easily integrated into the existing slideshow code. If the idea is not clear, let me know and I can try to explain it different way! Thanks.
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The status quo: only the canvas owner can has access to the canvas controls, invited collaborators are seeing a completely blank app screen The problem: Invited users/collaborators such as spouses, family members, etc. even living in the same household cannot control the frame at all e.g to show pictures to someone and are always dependent on the account owner for this. Why can - and would you - invite others to your canvas - if it has ZERO functionality? The Solution: Control rights - or even a rights management for invited users/collaborators that can be controlled by the account owner. Why? What seems to make sense for very few scenarios, where invited users should indeed only be able to upload pictures, is simply hindering to frustrating for the majority of use cases. I initially even thought it was a bug that invited users only see the black screen one the control options in the app and contacted CS to report the suspected bug and did not even consider this could be the case on purpose! Why this so completely meaningless - but confusing app screen without any functionality? Why no control possibility for invited users, which is technically easy, because already implemented for the owner? This would be a tremendous increase in value of the canvas for the whole home and the whole family - please make this happen!
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I have owned my Meural 2 (27" 19x29 model) for a year and a half. I have minor complaints here and there but mostly enjoy the picture and the overall experience. However, I've been wanting a bigger screen for a while and just tried out Samsung's Frame TV so I could go up to a 50" model. I spent a day with their product and about the only thing I like about it is that it's a 50" screen and has a remote. Their UI for art is poor - it's not even good for managing your own photos. The worst thing of all is that the image degrades to being unusable when the viewing angle is more than 5-10 degrees horizontally or vertically so it cannot function for displaying wall art. It's a total joke and I have no idea why it has so many glowing review when one of if not the main feature is its "Art Mode". I am returning it tomorrow. The only reason is that most people don't even consider the Meural is because it's too small to function as a large work of art or to cover a large wall. People in that market segment are willing to pay >1K (obviously since the larger frame TV models cost that much). I implore you to please make a larger model - say 40".... Pretty please! Meural Canvas II
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not a new idea, in fact i see this request has been around for years... allow integration with google drive and google photos. overall, meural is a brilliant display with awful UI, 3rd party integration, and customization features. Photovu from 2008 was a much better product in every regard except for the display, but 1080 HD frames were non-existent back then. so many great ideas from the forum, and none are being investigated or worked on?! what is the point of the idea forum? purchased a Lenovo Smart Frame for my sister, and it works so much better! netgear, I am trying to be loyal, and wait for meural to deliver much needed features... but its been almost three years and no improvements have been made...
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Hi there I love my Meural to bits and love the content on it. I am missing Google Home / Google Assistant support on it. I wonder if you can give the following ideas some thought. I would like to suggest that Google Home / Google Assistant support gets added in controlling the Meural Canvas. The following use cases comes to mind: Google Assistant Need to be able to group Group Meural Canvasas -- Put all Meural Canvases in a Group e.g. Living Room Canvases Need to be able to Switch on / Wake the Canvas / Canvases or Canvas Group -- So that you can say: Hey Google, switch on Meural; Hey Google, switch on Living Room Canvases. Need to be able to Switch off / Put to sleep the Canvas / a Canvas Group -- So that you can say: Hey Google, switch off Meural; Hey Google, switch off the Living Room Canvases. Need to be able to Show Next picture in Play list -- Hey Google, show next picture on Canvas / Meural. Need to be able to Show Previous picture in Play list -- Hey Google, show previous picture on Canvas / Meural. Google Home App Need to be able to group Group Meural Canvasas -- Put all Meural Canvases in a Group e.g. Living Room Canvases Need to be able to Switch on / Wake the Canvas / Canvases or Canvas Group. Similar to plug control. Need to be able to Switch off / Put to sleep the Canvas / a Canvas Group. Similar to plug control. Need to be able to Show Next picture in Play list. Button in Google Home App. Need to be able to Show Previous picture in Play list. Button in Google Home App. These would be great. Kind regards, Skalk from Wellington.
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Is there an option to have the frame display portrait photos side-by-side when it's in landscape orientation? I prefer to have the auto-fill function off (and don't mind the black side bars), and want the frame to display both portrait and landscape photos without having to manually adjust the physical orientation of the frame. But I find that the portrait photos look too small with so much black bar space on either side. The perfect solution would be if portraits could be displayed two at a time, side-by-side (like the Aura Carver frame does).
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There are several artists with large bodies of work who are (a) still alive and (b) already embracing digital media. I'd love to be able to support them and display their works on my Meural without going through the work of purchasing, downloading, and re-uploading their art. I also worry about file formats, file sizes, etc. Could you allow us to directly connect with artists who may be willing to have their art added to a Meural collection for members? Or at least a way for owners/members to suggest that Meural reach out to an artist, or have a contact page for artists to contact Meural?
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This is not a new idea, but the computer/phone UI for the canvas REALLY needs to be improved. In fact, I was going to subscribe to the service for the art, which looks great on the Meural, but due to the extreme difficulty I've experienced trying to deal with playlists and adding my own photos or, God forbid, trying to change a group of photos, I've decided I can't expend the time and mental energy dealing with what unknowns a subscription would bring. So my idea for Netgear is: improve the UI (I've seen many good sugestions in the community), and maybe you'd get a lot more people subscribing/buying the art, which I'm sure is the real business model for this product. Thanks.
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Since the Meural device maintains a constant internet connection, it would be good to utilize the connectivity for gesture and proximity based functions, as well as event based functions. Imagine having your Meural device displaying artwork and photos, then you hear your smart doorbell ring, and immediately, your mural displays a live view of the doorbell camera (user customizable timeout, e.g., 20 seconds). Or another scenario, the Meural is displaying artwork, and you approach it, and the gesture sensor being used as a makeshift proximity sensor, is able to display low opacity overlay of some of the metadata of the photo. Or you approach the Meural and perform a custom gesture where the device pulls up an info screen displaying various preset dashboards, e.g., weather, network stats (integrating with Netgear routers), or even displaying custom dashboards from services like grafana. It may even be possible to integrate with IP camera systems and provide quick gesture access to the camera views, but then smoothly transitioning back to the photos and other artwork when you step away from the device. While the primary function remains to display images and other artwork, the networking capabilities can be leveraged to provide other value-add functions. Depending on how much the gesture sensor can be adjusted, it could double for both gestures and proximity. Or since there is a vertical and horizontal sensor, depending on orientation, one could be set to a longer range and higher sensitivity for proximity detection, while the other is used for gesture input.
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Wouldn't it be great if you could manage your meural playlists from within Lightroom? This could involve synching of smart playlists (which would automatically add, delete or modify playlist photos. Even if playlist management not possible, should be possible to synch with uploads.
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Dear Netgear, I really like the quality of the Canvas. I would love to be able to influence the info that is displayed with my photos. I know it can be changed through the Meural app, but after unlinking this info will disappear. I have a lot of bird photos and would love to display their names through the linked album (tagged names, given names or another way eg throught Lightroom) Looking forward to a software update that will make this possible!
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Hi! I am a big fan of your product. After I had mounted the first canvas, I immediately bought a second. I noticed that when I display photos, they should be matching on both frames. So if a black and white photo is shown in one frame, I want to show a black and white photo in the second frame and not a color photo. Accordingly, I have created two playlists with the same number of photos, so that always photos are displayed that match each other. The disadvantage is that it is quite time-consuming to create such matching playlists, because you have to note separately in which order the photos are displayed in the playlist for the first frame to create the playlist for the second frame. In short, it would be great if there were functions in the webapp that would allow managing playlists for multiple photo frames. With two frames it still works more or less, but with more frames it gets really complicated. Thanks! Best, Lukas
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Let me start off by saying that I realize my usage of the Meural is atypical. I decided that I wanted to make 'living photographs' of objects by taking high framerate video of low motion objects and slowing down the video to achieve my effect. The file size of these projects is too big for the Meural cloud (which somewhat surprised me) and so I use my Meural exclusively with an SD card after buying an extender, and have since moved all my other playlists to the SD card as well and removed any dependence on the cloud service. I understand that Netgear wants to make money off of their subsciption service, but I'm not that target audience, so when I see an ambiguous firmware update about design updates and that playlist, brightness, etc information is now constantly sent to the cloud, I have to ask why? What value add does this firmware update bring me? Why does Netgear need more of my data now than it previously did? I'm not updating my unit to 2.0.9 or later until I'm either convinced that it's in my best interest to do so, or this extra data collection is reversed.
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Hi! Gesture control can be a blessings or curse depending on your environment. I periodically get false gesture detections which is annoying. It would be great if there was a way to enable/disable this feature. Control from the app may be good enough in many sistuations, such as mine. Thanks. BibMo
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Please update the Meural app to include access to Google Drive, etc. It would be far easier for those of us who take professional photographs to upload high resolution images. Phone pic access doesn't cut it and neither does using an SD card since the card has the be set up just right and recognized by the Meural. Plus, the SD card doesn't link any of the images to the phone app. It's just outdated and kind of messy.
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One of the best features of Apple Photos app (iOS) is that the app creates "Memories" based on related photos, and they can be all sorts of things like a person, a special date or event, holidays, outings, walks in the country, pets etc. These memories just appear in the "For You" part of the Apple Photos app. It would be amazing if you the Meural app let you sync Memories in addition to Albums. At the moment I have to jump through a lot of steps to create a new Apple Photos Album, select all the photos then copy them into a new Album, then go into Meural and sync that album. Simply selecting Memories in the Meural app would be brilliant.
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I have had my meural for about 6 months. I have since bought three for our kids. When invited to share, the photos i share go into a playlist. how can these photos then be moved out of the playlist and onto the canvas. The only way we have found to do this is to give each other the log in for each canvas. We just want all of our pictures in one area and have the meural cycle through them. I dont want to have to pick a playlist when i want to see other photos. I just want them all in one place, so i never have to do anything but enjoy the images. I even have some of your free to me classics in the mix.
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One function I would like to see is integration with other Netgear products such ass their routers, APs, and NAS products, as well as 3rd party IOT products. For example, imagine if you could integrate the meual with your Arlo video doorbell so that as soon as someone rings the doorbell, it immediately displays a live view of the doorbell camera feed. Or add the avility to do a custom motion gesture which will then display a home overview, such as a custom set of stats from your Netgear router,grid view of a few IOT or local IP cameras, weather, and other basic information. Or have iit automatically switch to specific camera feed when theydetect motion. For example, if my back yard camera detects motion, have the meural automatically stream a live feed of it for the duration of the motion event.
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