DejaView
The private photo streamer for DAKboard.
Stream Apple Photos to DAKboard, Home Assistant, MagicMirror, and any display on your network. Runs from your Mac's menu bar. Your photos never leave home.
How It Works
Select
Choose albums from your Apple Photos library — including Smart Albums and Shared Albums.
Serve
DejaView creates local network URLs for each album, served right from your Mac's menu bar.
Display
Point your DAKboard, Home Assistant, or any display to the URL. Photos update automatically.
Lives in Your Menu Bar
DejaView runs quietly in your Mac's menu bar. Click the icon to see active streams, view counts, and server status at a glance.
Powerful Configuration
Create collections from multiple albums with proportional weighting, set photo ordering, choose image sizes, and manage endpoints — all from a native macOS interface.
Beautiful on DAKboard
Your photos on DAKboard alongside weather, calendar, tides, and more — all powered by a simple URL from DejaView.
Setup in 3 clicks
Add a Photo URL block in DAKboard, paste your DejaView URL, done. Your photos rotate automatically with no cloud service needed.
Get startedEverything You Need
Privacy First
Photos never leave your local network. No cloud uploads. No tracking. No data collection.
Smart Rotation
LRU algorithm ensures variety. Never see the same photo twice until you've cycled through them all.
Multiple Streams
Every album becomes its own URL. Kitchen gets family photos. Office gets landscapes.
Built-in HTTPS
Automatic self-signed certificate generation. Secure connections out of the box.
Collections
Combine multiple albums into one stream with proportional weighting. 60% family, 40% travel — you decide.
Menu Bar App
Lives quietly in your menu bar. Configure once and forget. Launches automatically at startup.
Smart Albums
Works with Favorites, Recently Added, Shared Albums, and all your custom Smart Albums.
Flexible Sizing
Configurable per-stream from 800px to original resolution. Optimized for your specific display.
Read-Only Safe
Only reads your photos. Never modifies, moves, or deletes anything in your library.
Works With More Than DAKboard
Any device that can load an image URL works with DejaView.
DAKboard
The primary digital display platform. Photo URL blocks work seamlessly.
Home Assistant
Use the generic camera integration to display your photo streams.
MagicMirror²
Add photo modules pointing to your DejaView endpoints.
Raspberry Pi
Any Pi-based display or kiosk that can load images from a URL.
Any Browser
Open the URL in any browser on your network to see your photos.
Launch Sale
One-time purchase. No subscriptions. No in-app purchases. No cloud fees.
Week one launch price
- Unlimited photo streams
- All future updates included
- HTTPS with auto certificates
- Family Sharing (up to 6 members)
- Collections with proportional weighting
- No internet connection required
One-time purchase. Yours forever.
Your Privacy is Not for Sale
DejaView is fully sandboxed, uses read-only photo access, and serves photos exclusively over your local network. We don't even have a server to send data to.
Read our privacy policy