MMM-GooglePhotos

A Former User

Cannot limit the number currently. And I thought, If you want just a few pictures, you’d better to store your photos locally and to display them with other local-based module.
The better way I think is, to create new album for selected photos and use it.
There is no API to get comment. Sorry.

redink

Thank you for making this great module and a very a good set of instuctions. I am struggling with the last step.

I run the node auth_and_test.jsand it opens the browser windows asking me to login. I proceed to do that, go through my 2FA and then land on a page which is asking me to select a google account form a list of 1 (just my account). Clicking my account just redirects me back to the same exact page. Have you seen this issue before? Any idea on how to fix this?

A Former User

@redink Somebody has same issue. Copy the URL and use another browser. (Or another device - like your dev pc). I think it could be some kind of cookie issue.

redink

Thanks for the quick reply. I assumed this had to happen from the exact same machine that MagicMirror was running out, because it would set a local cookie or something. But, I’ll try opening the URL from a different machine and report back tonight.

redink

It worked! Thanks!
Is there a config to fade the picture, or do an 50% transparent black overlay? I am sure I can do this with some custom CSS, but was wondering of the module supports it.

A Former User

@redink adjust css. i prefer to control looks by css.

redink

Thanks!

For anyone who wants to do the same, just add the following to your custom.css file

#GPHOTO{
     /*1 is fully opaque, 0 is fully transparent*/
    opacity: 0.3 !important;
}

WasupDude

wow, that’s really interesting ;)

King321

Is there a way to have videos play as well?

orayoflighto

First, thanks for a great module. Its greatly appreciated.

Is there a way to prevent API requests during certain time periods? I have 14000 photos in an album that is only going to grow with time which is going to kill my API requests but I don’t need requests to take place at 2AM for instance.

sdetweil

@orayoflighto do u put your mirror to sleep when u are not around? it should not fetch new images while mirror is asleep…

A Former User

@sdetweil @orayoflighto
I’ll update(or build newly) about it on next patch.

orayoflighto

@Sean looking forward to it. Thanks again for an awesome module.

@sdetweil I now have a cron job to turn the monitor off. Is that what you mean by “sleep”? Does that stop the API requests?

sdetweil

@orayoflighto sadly no. The MagicMirror code doesn’t know the screen is off

Bestboy4

@Sean I don’t know how you keep your patients with all of us. I’m using many of your modules, so thanks for your contribution to the masses.

Has anyone noticed that when you sort with “time” that it pulls photos from google in the order in which each photo was uploaded, and not the order you put them in the album.

I have 12 pictures in my album that I have put in order to represent each calendar month. Is there a way to force the module to sort according the album order, and not time?

A Former User

@Bestboy4
Sorry, there is no key to sort that way in API. The only values could be used for sorting was creationTime.

Bestboy4

@Sean I was afraid of that. Thanks for the reply.

Bestboy4

@Sean Sorry to keep kicking a dead horse, but if the API gives access to the creationTime, then can one create a short script to to show a particular photo for a particular date? Like, when in the month of December, only show me photos with a time stamp of 12/**/****.

Here is what I am getting at; I can edit the time stamp on each photo to reorganize in google photos. However, if there is a power glitch, and my Rpi resets, then the photos will start over at the beginning of the photo album. Normally this wouldn’t be a big deal if I were to use my MM as just a photo frame. However I suspect that I’m like most people, and am displaying our family calendar as well (kudos for the CalendarExt BTW). Having the photos coincide with the what time of the year it is would be very beneficial. For instance I wouldn’t want snow scenes to be displayed in the middle of July (unless I am in Australia, :-P ). So far there doesn’t seem to be a module like that.

xundre

Hello,

The module has been working great , however , i am running into a situation now where it constantly request google authentication. I can leave and come back and there are 50 chromium tabs opened trying to authenticate to google , and it also covers other modules.

Any idea how to fix this ?

Regards!

A Former User

@xundre
give me more details especially server log.