Keepr Photographs are better on a big screen with people in the room. This is the least fiddly way we could make that work.
How it works#
- Open the album in Keepr and choose to watch it on a TV.
- You get a short code.
- On the television, open a browser and type the code in.
- The album starts playing.
Nothing to install on the TV and nothing to sign into. Any smart TV, streaming stick or games console with a browser will do, and so will a laptop plugged into a television.
The code avoids characters that are easy to confuse, because typing on a TV remote is miserable enough already.
Your slideshow settings come with it#
Whatever you chose when creating the code — the order, how fast it advances, photos only or videos too, whether it loops — is what the TV starts with. You're not setting it up twice.
The album needs a share link#
Watching on a TV uses the album's public share link, so that has to be on. See Share with someone without an account.
Two consequences:
- Turning sharing off stops any outstanding code immediately. The TV loses access at the same moment everyone else does.
- Hidden photos aren't included, the same as on any share link. A photo you've hidden from a circle won't appear on the television either.
The code lasts 15 minutes#
Long enough to walk across the room and type it. Short enough that a code still visible on a screen an hour later is worth nothing.
If it expires before you get there, get another one — there's no limit.
It's an entry ramp rather than a credential: it hands over the album's current share link and then stops mattering.
Good times to use it#
- Christmas or a birthday, with the year's album playing in the background.
- Showing grandparents the holiday on their own television rather than a phone screen.
- A wake or an anniversary, where a slideshow does something a photo album can't.
For that last one especially, it's worth setting up the album and testing the code before the day rather than in front of everyone.