MMM-GooglePhotos

A Former User

@bowlofred
If you have 1000 Photos in an album, and scanning per 10 minutes

on each scan; 20 API quota will be consumed. (max items driven per request are 50)
for 24H running, 144 scans will be performed.
Total consumption : 20 * 144 = 2880 APIs
Around 3000 photos could be safely scanned with 10min scan cycle.

However after this calculation, I think I’d better to add a feature to suspend and resume for unused(or hidden) module status.

A Former User

@krishnatnl
See above post.
I think your problem might be caused by number of photos. API request quota might be over the limits. It could not get new photos from server, so last picture is only you could have at the moment.
I’m guessing how to solve this kind of problem now. Hmmm…
Growing scanInterval up is not so safe, Because Life of temp url of photo is somewhat short, the url could be expired. Hmmmm… difficult.

krishnatnl

@Sean :
Got the scan calculation of how you got 2880 . thanks.

Question:
Does the Scan calculation mean If scanned every 10 mins, a total of 2880 photos will be scanned in 24 hours?

If refresh Interval is every 1 minute, then 60*24 = 144 photos out of the 2880 photos will be shown?

A Former User

@krishnatnl
1api request could get 50 pics. 1000 pics need 20 api request. (1 scan)
1440scan(1min for 24h) needs 28800 api requests. Thats quota over.

uzair82

Hello,
I have installed this module and all options are working Except Fullscreen. When i setup to 100% nothing appears in Google Photos.
If i set resolution manually it works fine. what could be the reason.
Here is the setting.

 sort: "time", //'time', 'reverse', 'random'
    showWidth: "100%", // how large the photo will be shown as. (e.g;'100%' for fullscreen)
    showHeight: "100%",
    originalWidthPx: 1024, // original size of loaded image. (related with image quality)
    originalHeightPx: 768, // Bigger size gives you better quality, but can give you network burden.
    mode: "cover", // "cover" or "contain" (https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css3_pr_background-size.asp)

A Former User

@uzair82 There is no reason not to work. Where(position) did you put your module for fullscreen?

krishnatnl

@sean
This is working fine now.
Below is my config snippet:

refreshInterval: 1000*30,  
scanInterval: 1000*60*60, // too many scans might cause API quota limit also.
//note(2018-07-29). It is some weird. API documents said temporal image url would live for 1 hour, but it might be broken shorter. So, per 10 min scanning could prevent dead url.

sort: "random", //'time', 'reverse', 'random'
showWidth: "100%", // how large the photo will be shown as. (e.g;'100%' for fullscreen)
showHeight: "100%",
originalWidthPx: 1920, // original size of loaded image. (related with image quality)
originalHeightPx: 1080, // Bigger size gives you better quality, but can give you network burden.
mode: "cover", // "cover" or "contain" (https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css3_pr_background-size.asp)

Question:
My monitor is in Landscape mode. My Landscape pictures displays fine (Fitting exactly in screen). But portraits display in full size cropping the pic mostly and in an expanded view. Only part of image is visible since it large.

Is there a way to “Fit the picture into the screen” when it is Portrait just like Landscape? I tried other mode. It is too small and has borders. I want the pic to fit exactly in the screen.
My monitor is 22 inch, Full HD (1080P) if that helps.

A Former User

@krishnatnl
Fit the picture into the screen has obvious meaning.
Portrait image in Landscape Area (and vice versa) Is something like real pictures in real photoframe, you cannot fit your portrait picture into the landscape frame without cutting(mode:cover) or extra margin of both left&right sides(mode:contain). The bigger difference of ratio makes the more uncomfortable looks.
Could be the 3rd option? Give me a suggestion.

PS
I thought options available to consider :

stretch the width of portrait picture fully to fit to landscape area. It makes your person in portrait looks like a hobbit.
cut the top and both moderately and also stretch horizontally not too much. Not displaying entire image and not covering whole area, but it will look nicer than current issue. The only problem is, where to cut and how much to expand is not be done automatically.

Is there any idea?

krishnatnl

@Sean
Maybe i did not explain properly. I need a layout for the portrait oriented pictures to fit in the screen without disturbing the aspect Ratio.

MODE:COVER

Works perfectly for the landscape oriented pictures since it is fitting the picture perfectly in the screen. There is no stretch or crop.

Portrait oriented pictures are cropped to landscape orientation (technically).

MODE:CONTAIN

Works fine for the portrait oriented pictures i.e: The full image is visible in the screen, no crop, no stretch

Landscape pictures are also displayed without crop, but there are borders.

Need something like this:
If the pic is a Landscape oriented one, Mode should be COVER, else should be CONTAIN.
In Other words, need an AUTO-SCALING option.

From a programming perspective, is this feasible? If not, I will try the COVER mode but not liking black borders for all the images.

A Former User

@krishnatnl
In my MMM-DropboxWallpaper, I applied already that feature(automatically changing mode by ratio). I have been doubting whether it has really usefulness in real usage. Anyway I’ll consider this feature in this module too.