- You will need to create a local/additional user on a PC/notebook device running Windows 11 OS and create a shared folder for storing images and fonts.
Everything is in the video, but be cautious about these steps:
- create a local user for sharing, which you will use for the camera
- use both options to share the folder
Important: when adding storage to the camera, check the option "Add share without testing"
- You will need to upload the image from the network folder (where the image is already stored), add it to the CamOverlay Image Manager, and select the Image widget to display it.
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Finally, you will need to upload the text from the network folder and select it to display in the CamOverlay widget, Infoticker (note that the text contains both English and Chinese characters).
The next step is to upload a font if needed (the default one doesn't support characters like Asian or Arabic scripts) to ensure the text displays correctly. Once completed, restart the CamOverlay app to speed up the display results, as text from a text file is updated every 60 seconds.
NOTE: ensure the fonts have the correct file extension, ie TTF in order to work correctly, fonts can be downloaded e.g. here https://fonts.google.com/
Important: the path to the file stored in the shared storage is always in this format
file:///var/spool/storage/NetworkShare/text.txt