MMM-GooglePhotos

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.

xundre

@Sean said in MMM-GooglePhotos:

@xundre
give me more details especially server log.

Hi , Sorry not exactly sure how to get the logs.

A Former User

@xundre
If you are requested to auth your project on each time module running, your authentification was missing something or failed.
Try re auth again. (https://github.com/eouia/MMM-GooglePhotos#get-auth-and-albumid)

xundre

@Sean I do but then it comes back up again in x number of days. I go through the auth process and it works again, but then starts popping up windows to auth after sometime.

It used to work consistently without having to reauth , not quite sure what changed.

A Former User

@xundre
Very weird. If possible, plz contact me tomorrow through Telegram (my id is @eouia) I’m convenient when normal weekdays 10am ~ 17pm in Central European Timezone. We can see what’s happening on realtime.