MMM-GooglePhotos

soubhik-khan

I noticed this module is using huge data. Almost downloading more than 3gb/day. My refresh rate is 1.5min per photo. Anyone else noticed this? How can we reduce the data usage? Probably show photos from the cached data instead of downloading every time?

sdetweil

@soubhik-khan I went over the code last month for some not refreshing problem. and it does build and use a local cache.

how big are the pictures? and how many are there?

at 1 mb each for 960 pics, it could be 1gb in a day

soubhik-khan

@sdetweil yes you are right, I think I found the issue. Its not this module. There is something else on the pi hijacking my bandwidth! its insane ~ 24GB is last 24 hours!

I was about the do a clean install but then I thought I will just remove the unused folders first! I guess its from pocketshhinx or sphinxbase, I had installed some of those voice assistant modules! I removed those two folders and looks like now the data usage is back to normal. Will monitor for a day, if this doesnt help, will need to do a clean install

celliott

I am currently using this module to display one album that has 5 photos in it. I have it set to change the photo every 15 seconds. For some reason once it gets to the 5th photo, it only displays for barely 1 second and then starts from the beginning again. Any suggestions on how to fix this so that the last photo will display as long as the others?

sdetweil

@celliott I don’t know for sure but there is debugging info available

edit the node_helper.js

and add

       debug:true,

between these two lines

module.exports = NodeHelper.create({
  start: function()

then stop mm, pm2 stop all if using pm2

then

cd ~/MagicMirror
npm start >somefile.txt

wait til u see the error
then ctrl-c on the mm terminal window
(alt-spacebar, n to.minimize mm screen if you didn’t use ssh)

orayoflighto

For those just joining, I was able to get this to work using the Google OAuth desktop option and the V2 token generator that hermanho made at the link below

https://github.com/aneaville/MMM-GooglePhotos/issues/145

megagprime

@orayoflighto awesome thanks guys but some of us are really dumb and I can’t figure this out. No new get token no matter how hard I try and I don’t know how to do it on my local pc… If I copy the file over I get the following ![alt text](image url)

megagprime

@orayoflighto i tried to do this but i am too dumb, how do i clone on local pc ? and when i do put v2 in folder and node i get this error

sdetweil

@megagprime to get a pull request

in the existing module folder do

git fetch origin pull/#/head:local_branch_name

replace # w 146
and pick a name for branch name

the when that completes (no message)
do
git checkout whatever name u used

now your photos module is using the pull request version

then the normal instructions should work

edit : shows what u get for not checking and trusting some ‘now old’ post on the internet!

megagprime

@sdetweil admin@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-GooglePhotos $ pull/<145>/head:< g2 >
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `145’