Rotated, phone photos fill the frame natively — 10 of your 12 display full-bleed against 2 in landscape. The week becomes seven rows instead of seven cramped columns, and at ~11.5″ wide the panel now fits inside a stud bay.
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Measured on your album: portrait panel shows 10 of 12 full-bleed; landscape showed 2. The pairing logic becomes a fallback for your two landscapes instead of the main path.
Seven columns in 1080px would be 154px each. Rows give each day a full line — and a family scans a week as a list anyway.
~11.5″ wide with an enclosure against a 14.5″ stud bay. It didn’t fit landscape. In-wall speakers come back with it.
The classic mistake: image turns, taps stay in landscape coordinates, every press lands 90° off. The touch device must be bound to the rotated output.