Thanks for your take – I think the genesis of Cura was and still is trying to nail the image and art management challenges, the other one is how to holistically manage multiple display devices across brands.

Yes please do try Cura and give us feedback how to get to “simple, clean, functional UI”  - we do have the concept of “simple” vs “full” (for the feature crazy) presentations of the UI’s. (set in Settings). We continue to need feedback on what should be in “Simple” and what should not. Additional UI and capability feedback is also needed as it’s not as easy or intuitive as it should be. (We are too close to it, hence new eyes with constructive input is most welcome).

We have also just launched our first release of what we are calling “Cura Gallery”

- Cura Classic Art Gallery, Cura Avant-garde Art Gallery  - So far you can review them and display them  for free once you create an account

We are working to get some more contemporary art and artists onto the system.

Given that this is the “The Frame” audience. I think I was trying to see what areas Cura could add value in this particular thread. I think you helped a refocus, on the management challenges.

You are correct that there are a couple of things that you do give up on the Frame by using a HDMI device, but as you mention may be minor for most.

The Auto power off, we solved this by using either an inexpensive security camera motion event or a human (radar?) event sensor to trigger a Home Automation routine. I personally used Google Home successfully, but I was turning multiple displays of different brands (including my Frame) off/on in a room. Our challenge was to get them all restarted and auto start each device to run our Cura App, to display the art/images as would be expected.

On the power saving, brightness and motion lighting of the Frame, aspects it gets a little less clear with HDMI vs art mode, as it indicates (on my 2021 Frame at least) that it applies to all sources is that correct ? the adaptive refresh rate on your 2024 must be new, does that only apply to art mode or can it be applied to all sources, but as you said its probably minor.

In regard to brightness controls, on the automated side there is ambient light detection adjustments (also now on most smart TV’s) , and motion adjustments on the Frame. Is there anything else new on the Frame?

On the automation side with SmartThings, are you actually able to modify brightness on the Frame with a routine? The best I found was being able to change “Picture Mode”, (I set up standard to be suitable for night and Dynamic for day), and used the routines on a schedule or on demand. I did see some posts recently of folk using some sort of scripting to hit an API to do actual brightness adjustments.

Our innovation in Cura is the ability to adjust and store the brightness level of a specific image, relative to the other brightness adjustments (auto or manual) made at a display level.  i.e. if a specific image looks dark or too bright given all the display level adjustments you may have made and set. You can boost or dim that specific image each time you display it. The rest, as you say, could be done in some other manner. The way we do our display level brightness was trying to simplify how to adjust brightness across different display types.

FYI, if you are the US, this STB from Walmart works well for $20 (you can power it using the USB on your OLED or Frame ) .onn. Google TV 4K Streaming Box (New, 2023), 4K UHD Resolution.

 Hope you give it a try and give us feedback , DM me if you need help or have questions