MMM-GooglePhotos

[A Former User]

@kivlow
I suspect you have executed node auth_and_test.js in shell terminal on your PC via SSH. right?
If you run that commands on your RPI directly, it should try to open a browser for authenticating process.

[kivlow]

@sean
i power on RPI with raspbian then open from upper taskbar terminal and wrote node auth_and_test.js
how to wrote it directly ??

[A Former User]

@kivlow
What kind of RPI do you use? As you said “taskbar”, Is it RPI 2 or 3 with Jessie or Stretch Desktop, right?
And, Have RPI had any browser (Chromium or Midori?)?

I’ll change some code for the case of not opening browser automatically, Please wait a while.

[kivlow]

I use raspberry pi 3b with raspbian borwser chromium.
cool i wait :] p.s. express response

[A Former User]

@kivlow
I’ve fixed.

cd ~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-GooglePhotos
git pull
node auth_and_test.js

You can see like this image;

When the browser is not be opened automatically, copy the url and paste it into your browser manually.

[NathTheDude]

Hi Sean,

Firstly thank you for this, it has great potential and is something that has been missing for such a long time compared to the alternative dakboard that I was forced to use to get photos displayed.

I have an issue though, I believe I have been through the steps correctly but can not get it to work. When I reboot my RPI2 it looks like the ‘auth_and_test.js’ is ran and this brings up the browser with googlin login and if I follow this through it gives me the code which is the same experience I have when running ‘auth_and_test.js’ in order to get the album id.

This then repeats itself every 5mins or so…

I have added the album id in the config.js but it does not seem to matter if I put a correct or incorrect one in here the same happens. It does not look like it trys to put images on the desktop so I don’t think the module is getting that far.

Any idea what I have done wrong?

Thanks

Nathan

[A Former User]

@naththedude
You mean, your MM is trying to re-auth again(every 5 mins.) right?
First, you should check whether you have token.json in root directory of MMM-GooglePhotos.

cd ~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-GooglePhotos
cat token.json

It should be something similar with this;

{"access_token":"...","token_type":"Bearer","scope":"https://www.googleapis.com/auth/photoslibrary.readonly","expiry_date":1533304224450,"refresh_token":"..."}

Your simptom would happen when token.json is missed.

token.json should be generated as result of auth_and_test.js

[NathTheDude]

Hey @Sean ,

Thank you for your quite reply, you are correct the token.josn file was missing. Looks like I needed to run ‘node auth_and_test’ as sudo for this file to be created. Once I did this the photos started to appear :) just need to configure the size and position now.

Thank you again.

Regards

Nathan

[A Former User]

@naththedude good to you.
The only thing I worry is, if you run as sudo there could be a possibility of a problem to refresh token with proper authority.

[kivlow]

@sean
hello :]
I make git pull but nothing change :/
still when i wrote in terminal even sudo node auth_and_test.js i get only info that is started.
my chromium not open and i dont have any link it termina to past it in chromium :[.