[Feature] Chronological slide show

[TheDataScientistNL]

I have searched the existing feature requests to make sure this is not a duplicate request.

• Yes

The feature

It would be great to have a config.yaml or ENV var option that allows for chronological slide shows (ascending or descending). Now , as far as I can tell, it's only up to album level.

Ideally, the ability to have the photos sorted ascending or descending in time makes sense. I couldn't find anything in the docs about this possibility

[damongolding]

I feel kiosk is too complex for this kind of holistic feature.

How would this work for a complex config such as:

people:
  - personA
  - personB 

albums:
 - albumA 

tags:
  - tagA
  - tags/tagB

dates:
  - 2025-08-01_to_2026-01-01
  - 1995-12-12_to_today

[TheDataScientistNL]

What I see in your config example are mostly filters: which people, which album, which tags, and which date ranges. It merely creates a subselection of all photos in Immich. This would not conflict with sorting the photos for this filtered set in chronological order?

Let's extend it to two albums, with various dates in it. I think this is a slightly more complex scenario, one that you are imaging? You could use the existing album ordering (random/ascending/descending), but within each album allow for sorting in ascending or descending order in time. If there are no albums, then it basically is one album (the immich library, subject to some filters as mentioned by you), and you chronologically show the photos. This seems entirely possible to integrate as feature, and simple enough?

Forgive me, but this seems like such an important feature that now just lacks. I just shared Immich Kiosk with my parents. First thing they said: the randomness is unhandy, we would like to get a sense of timeline of the pictures. And they are right to point it out.

Keen to keep the discussion open to see if this is possible!

[damongolding]

Adding/using multiple asset sources (albums, people, tags etc) is how most people use Kiosk, this is why I gave that example.

I'm not sure I agree that this is an important feature Kiosk is lacking. I understand everyones expectations and requirements are different but this is the first time anyone has asked for this.

As for it being simple - I'm afraid it wouldn't be. Kiosk doesn't gather all assets into one big selection (I don't want to hammer the Immich API) so we can't order it. It selects an asset source first (album, person etc) then gets the asset for that source. So to implement this it would mean a large amount of change to the core functionality of Kiosk.

Happy to leave this open for other to chime in but it's not something I am looking to add to Kiosk.