MMM-GoogleDriveSlideShow

clegallic

MMM-GoogleDriveSlideShow allows you to display a slideshow of your photos stored in Google Drive.
The MMM-GooglePhotos module allows to display photos stored in Google Photo, but as my photos are stored in Google Drive, I’ve created this module to create a slideshow of these photos on the Magic Mirror screen.

The module is highly configurable :

Google Drive root folder
Theming
Number of folders to scan / photos to retrieve
Refresh interval of the slideshow and periodic scan of Google Drive
Integration with other modules notifications (PIR sensor for example to display next image)
Play mode (automatic, manual)

Thanks to the MM team and all the community for their great work !

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MMM-GoogleDriveSlideShow

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sdetweil

@clegallic and if u get a suspend() call, u stop polling the server and stop attempting to display, right?

clegallic

@sdetweil I wasn’t aware of the suspend()and resume() methods.

I will update the module to implement these methods.

Thank !

clegallic

It’s fixed now. Regards.

cgethycx

I am not having any luck installing this module. It is probably user error. I have MM2 up and running but when I paste the code and restart MM2 is tells ,e i need to create a config.js file.

WARNING! Could not validate config file. Starting with default configuration. Please correct syntax errors at or above this line: /home/pi/MagicMirror/config/config.js:56
				rootFolderId: my id is here,
				                        ^

SyntaxError: Invalid or unexpected token
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:722:23)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:798:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:645:32)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:560:12)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:685:19)
    at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:16:16)
    at loadConfig (/home/pi/MagicMirror/js/app.js:67:12)
    at App.start (/home/pi/MagicMirror/js/app.js:202:3)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/pi/MagicMirror/js/electron.js:126:7)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:786:30)

Do I need to add anything to the ID? I have tried adding quotes but that did not seem to work.

thanks

sdetweil

@cgethycx said in MMM-GoogleDriveSlideShow:

rootFolderId: my id is here,

the rules for values in config.js

whatever to the right of : if its numbers (1, or 21.25) or true/false it does not need quotes
if it contains letters or spaces (this is a test, or 232130-1485i2jelnefkhwerh (apikey) it must be quoted,
single or double doesn’t matter as long as start and end are the same.

so, under the rules above
this

 rootFolderId: my id is here,

should be at least

 rootFolderId: 'my id is here',

read this helpful post
https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/4231/how-to-add-modules-for-absolute-beginners?_=1593192855243

cgethycx

@sdetweil thanks that helped somewhat. now MM2 loads but i just have a white box. Making progress though.

clegallic

Hi,

You have to configure the module with the ID of the Google Drive folder (rootFolderId) where your photos are stored.

You can check a complete answer here : https://github.com/clegallic/MMM-GoogleDriveSlideShow/issues/2#issuecomment-658843412

Regards,

Charles

Jupter1

Hi,
first of all, I really like the ideaof the module. But I am currently stuck at creating the authentification with google and then the token. In step 7 of your readme, I have no “other” option to choose, so I chose “web application”. But in step 9 (using VNC to access the magic mirror), the authentification fails.

Do you have any idea what is my mistake?

clegallic

Hi Jupter,

I don’t think you made a mistake, and that the “type” choice at step 7 has any importance.

Can you check that your credentials.json file looks like that ?

{"installed":{"client_id":"[something].apps.googleusercontent.com","project_id":"[something]","auth_uri":"https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth","token_uri":"https://oauth2.googleapis.com/token","auth_provider_x509_cert_url":"https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v1/certs","client_secret":"[something]","redirect_uris":["urn:ietf:wg:oauth:2.0:oob","http://localhost"]}}

Can you send me the detail of the error while trying to authenticate at step 10 ?

Regards,

Charles