Praktica Digital Photo Frame

What's in the box:

• Digital Photo Frame
• Stand
• Power Adapter
• Manual

Key features

• Easy navigation with touchscreen
• Store up to 10000 photos
• Micro SD card slot
• Adjustable slideshow speed
• Auto-rotate - portrait & landscape
• Automatic sleep mode

Setup Guide

Getting Started

Thank you for purchasing your new Praktica Digital Photo Frame. To get up and running, please follow the on-screen guide when powering up for the first time. A step-by-step guide is also provided below for any additional questions. Once set up, you can connect with friends and family and begin sharing your photos and videos!

Frameo app

Download the Frameo App to send photos & videos to your Praktica Photo Frame. Download on iOS or Android.

Download on the App Store | Get it on Google Play

Scan code to find the app.

Video Tutorials

For visual learners, check out the Frameo app tutorials on YouTube. Scan the QR code on the right to watch step-by-step instructions on how to use the app.

YouTube: bit.ly/3zKtxWX

Quick Setup

Connect the power supply and stand to the frame and click the power button. When starting up the frame for the first time, you will need to:

• Select a language
• Connect your frame to the internet with Wi-Fi
• Verify or correct the date and time
• Update your frame to the latest version if asked
• Enter your name and the location where your frame will be kept (e.g., John Doe and Living Room)
• Select the correct time zone

Send Photos

Download the Frameo app on your phone or tablet. Click the add friend icon ? on your photo frame, and a code will appear. Click the add friend icon on the Frameo app and submit the code.

Allow your friends and family to share photos and videos to your frame by following the same process. Note: each code is valid for 12 hours only, so once this time is over, you'll need to request another code on your photo frame.

Once your friends have added the code on their Frameo app, they will automatically appear on your frame and will be able to send photos. Your friends only need to connect to your frame once.

Navigating Your Frame

Navigating your Photo Frame

Swipe left or right to go through your photos. To access the menu, simply tap once on the screen.

In the menu, you will find the most used features:

• Add friend: This will generate a code that you can share with your friends and family so they can connect and send photos to your photo frame.
• Settings ⚙️: Opens the Settings.
• Power menu ⏻: Opens the Power menu.
• React ❤️: Opens the React menu. NB. The React menu can also be accessed by double-tapping on the screen.
• Hide photo ?️: Hides the current photo. This means the photo will no longer be shown in the slideshow. If needed, the photo can be shown again through the settings menu.
• Gallery ?️: Opens a gallery which allows for easy and fast navigation through your photos.
• Fit to frame/Fill frame: This toggles how the photo is shown.

Operation

Fill Frame

The Fill frame option is the default. The photo is scaled so that it fills the whole screen. It will be centered around what is selected as the most important part. See the first picture below.

Fit to frame will make sure that the entire photo is shown on the screen. See the second picture below.

Adjust photo

Allows you to adjust the position of the photo in the frame for an even better fit. Here you can also use ? to rotate your photo, and you can use ✎ to edit the caption on imported photos. For received photos, please ask the sender to edit the caption in the Frameo app.

Interacting with videos

When a video is shown, two additional controls are shown: one for play/pause of the video and one to control the volume level for video sounds.

Press ▶️ to start the video playback. Pressing || will pause the video playback.

Press ? to open the volume slider. Use the slider to adjust the volume level for video sounds.

Pressing ? will mute the video while pressing ? will unmute the video.

Power menu

Tap the power icon ⏻ to access the power menu. Here you can power off using ⏻, restart your photo frame using ?, or enter sleep mode using ?.

NB. Make sure to always use the power off button on the device or in the power menu to turn your photo frame off. Never disconnect power when the photo frame is running.

React menu

Tap one of the reactions to let the sender know how it made you feel. ❤️???

External storage menu

When inserting an external storage (e.g., a microSD card), a menu will automatically appear with three options: Press ▶️ to play photos directly from the external storage, press ⬇️ to import photos to the internal memory of your photo frame, or press ? to make a backup of your photo frame.

Clock and Weather widgets

The current time and weather will appear in the upper-right corner of the photo frame when the photo frame has received at least one photo. Tapping either of these will open the weather menu.

Weather menu

The weather menu contains more detailed weather forecasts and has shortcuts to weather-related settings.

• ? Shows the weather location of your photo frame. Tap to access the weather location settings.
• 1 DAY: 1-day forecast which includes weather conditions for time periods of the day.
• 4 DAY: 4-day forecast. Tap to see the weather forecast for the next four days.
• ⏰ Displays the photo frame's current time. Tap to access the time settings.

Settings

My frame

Frame name

Changes the name of your photo frame. This is also the name that connected friends and family will see in their list of connected frames in the smartphone app.

Frame location

Changes the location of your photo frame. This is the location displayed on your friends' and family's list of connected frames, which can help to distinguish frames from each other.

Set language

Sets the language used on the photo frame.

Weather location

Sets the location for the photo frame's weather feature, ensuring that your photo frame displays the appropriate weather forecast for you.

Temperature unit

Toggles between the Fahrenheit and Celsius temperature scales.

Date

Sets the date used on the photo frame.

Time

Sets the time used on the photo frame. The frame will automatically try to set the correct date and time when connected to the internet.

Time zone

Sets the time zone used on the photo frame.

Set first day of week

Sets which day of the week is considered the first.

Enable/Disable 24-hour format

Enables and disables the 24-hour time format.

Manage photos

In the manage photos menu, you can see how many photos are on your photo frame and the storage they use. You can also see the amount of storage left available on your device for storing new photos.

Show/hide photos

Select which photos to hide by tapping them. Hidden photos will NOT be deleted from your photo frame and you can always select them to be shown again. Use ?️ to hide or show all photos.

Delete photos

Select photos that you want to permanently delete from your photo frame by tapping the photo. Use ☑️ to select or deselect all and to permanently delete the selected photos.

Import photos

Allows you to import photos from an external storage (e.g., microSD card). Before you try to import photos, make sure you have an external storage (e.g., microSD card) inserted into your photo frame with the photos you wish to import. Start by selecting the photos that you want to import onto your frame. Once selected, tap the import button to start the import process.

Use ☑️ to select or deselect all photos on the external storage (e.g., microSD card). Use ☰ to set the sort order of photos before import and to order by ascending/descending.

Transfer from computer

Allows you to transfer photos from a computer using a USB cable. Enable the feature and then follow the on-screen guide for step-by-step instructions on how to transfer photos to your photo frame.

For more information, please visit Frameo's help center: frameo.net/usb_faq

Export photos

Allows you to export photos from the photo frame to external storage (e.g., microSD card). The export function will export all photos on the frame as well as profile pictures.

Play from external storage

Enables/disables playback of photos and videos directly from an external storage (e.g., microSD card) without taking up space on the photo frame.

My Friends

This list contains all the connected friends that are allowed to send photos to your photo frame.

Change options for a friend

Click the options icon ⚙️ to open the friend options menu. From here you can allow/disallow if a friend may share the code to the photo frame. If this is enabled, the friend can retrieve and share the code to the photo frame from his/her app.

From the options menu, you can also delete a friend by pressing the DELETE FRIEND button. This will remove the friend from the list and thereby remove their permission to send photos to the photo frame. You will then be asked to confirm the removal and if you would like to remove all photos previously received from this friend.

Add person

To allow a new person to send you photos, simply tap the add friend button ? and share the presented code in whatever way you prefer.

Display

Brightness level

Adjust the brightness level of the screen.

Sleep mode

The photo frame offers a sleep mode which turns off the screen to reduce power consumption. The default setting is to turn off the screen at 23:00 and turn on the screen again at 07:00 every day. This can be altered by changing your sleep schedule(s). It is possible to have multiple schedules active at once, to e.g., have different settings for weekdays and the weekend or a separate schedule to turn off the photo frame while at work.

Your photo frame is not powered down or in standby, so you will still be able to receive photos during sleep mode.

Slideshow

Timer

Set the duration that a photo should be displayed before showing the next photo.

Fill frame

Set the default frame photo setting. Check to set default to fill, which makes the photos fit the device screen according to the most important part of the photo. Uncheck to make the photo fit inside the screen of the device, adding background bars on the sides or top/bottom.

Frame background

Choose between several different photo frame background options to be shown as bars if the photo does not fill the screen.

Photo display order

Sets the order in which your photos are displayed on the photo frame.

• By date taken: Photos are shown in order of when it was taken.
• By date received: Photos are shown in order of when it was received.
• Shuffle: Photos are shuffled and shown in a random order.

Reverse photo display order

Sets if photos are displayed newest to oldest or oldest to newest.

Show caption

Set whether or not to display the captions that your friends have sent with the photo. Check to display captions. Uncheck to hide captions.

Show clock

Set whether or not to display the clock widget in the upper-right corner of the slideshow.

Show weather

Set whether or not to display the weather widget in the upper-right corner of the slideshow.

Autoplay

Enables/disables autoplay of videos in the slideshow. Videos can always be manually started regardless of this setting.

Video playback

Determines how videos should be played when autoplay is enabled.

• Loop videos: The video will loop until the slideshow timer is up.
• Play once: The video will play once and show its thumbnail until the timer is up.
• Play once and continue: The video will play once and continue to the next photo, or video, once it completes.

Auto mute

Enable to automatically mute the video volume after a short period of time of not interacting with the photo frame.

Video volume

Adjust the volume level for video sounds on the photo frame.

Wi-Fi

Set which Wi-Fi the photo frame connects to. If you are connecting to a network with a captive portal, Connection status will say that Wi-Fi login is required and show ?. Tap this to open a login screen where you can enter credentials to access the network.

Wi-Fi details

Use ℹ️ to show details about the current connected Wi-Fi.

Reset Wi-Fi

Use ⚙️ to delete all Wi-Fi information and restart your photo frame.

Notifications

Show notifications

Enables/disables whether notifications are shown in the slideshow (e.g., when a new photo is received).

Notification volume

Adjust the volume level for notification sounds.

Storage space

Enables/disables notifications shown when the photo frame storage is low.

Backup

Enables/disables notifications shown if automatic backup has failed.

Network connection

Enables/disables notifications showing network connection status.

New photos

Enables/disables notifications shown when receiving new photos.

New friends

Enables/disables notifications shown when new friends are added.

Software update

Enables/disables notifications shown when a software update has been installed.

Feature news

Enables/disables notifications shown when new exciting features are added.

Date and time

Enables/disables notifications shown if time or date is not set correctly.

Backup and Restore

Backup frame to external storage (e.g. microSD card)

Tap to make a backup of your photos, friends, and settings. The time of the latest successful backup is also displayed here.

Any existing backup on the external storage will be overridden!

Automatic backup

If checked, your photo frame will automatically take a backup within 30 hours of receiving new photos or making changes to your photo frame.

Restore from backup

Before you attempt to restore your photo frame, start by confirming that your backup is up-to-date. This is done by confirming the date under "Backup frame to external storage (e.g. microSD card)". If, e.g., the last backup is too old or if no backup is made, then press the "Backup frame to external storage (e.g. microSD card)" button to make a new backup.

NB: To keep both the old and the new photo frame operational at the same time after restoring from backup, please make sure that both photo frames are updated to the latest version beforehand. If you wish to restore a backup on a photo frame that has already been set up, then you must first reset the photo frame. This is done by pressing the “Reset frame” button. This will delete all data on the photo frame and reset the photo frame to its setup screen.

On the setup screen, you can select the “Restore from backup" button which will restore your photo frame according to the backup.

If the "Restore from backup" button isn't visible, then confirm that the external storage (e.g., microSD card) is correctly mounted.

Reset frame

Removes all data from your photo frame.

This will permanently remove all your photos, friends/connections, and settings.

Help

Guide

Shows the quick start guide, which was shown when you first started the photo frame.

Support

If you are experiencing issues with your Praktica Digital Photo Frame, please email us on care@praktica.com.

If you are finding the Frameo App hard to navigate, please visit: support.frameo.com/hc/en-us

and the Frameo team will be able to assist you.

Contact Information

Mailing Address

5 Century Point
Halifax Road
High Wycombe
Buckinghamshire
HP12 3SL
UK

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Halifax Road
High Wycombe
Buckinghamshire
HP12 3SL
UK

Customer Service

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