@sean You mention 10,000 requests per day. Does the number of requests go up with the number of photos in the album? If the album had 1000 photos, would that be a problem? Or is that fine as long as the photos aren’t changing too often?

@krishnatnl

1. That’s what I do. I just used the default scan interval (10 minutes) and set the refresh to 1 minute.

...
                                refreshInterval: 1000*60,
                                scanInterval: 1000*60*10,
                                sort: "random",
...

2. I’m not aware you can use multiple albums. I just add any photos I want to display on a separate “magicmirror” album. The photos are simultaneously in multiple albums. That gives me control over what’s displayed, but it does mean I have to manually add everything into all the albums I want.

3. What sort method are you using?

@wumpst Depends on how you start it. If you run node serveronly (what I usually do for debugging), you’ll see it on your commandline. If you start it with pm2, it’ll probably be in ~/.pm2/logs. See https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/wiki/Module-Debugging.

@wumpst If you look at the logs, you should see the count of photos in the folder every time it scans. Do they show a scan and is the count of photos increasing (and correct)?

Bingo! That works very, very well.

@sean Nope, just unfamiliar with installation. I thought the npm install took care of the location, and I didn’t have it in the modules directory. Once I put it there, I got log output and tried playing around to make it visible.

My configuration above is still blank, but if I change the position to “fullscreen_below”, it shows the image. It seems that if the position is the same as some other module, it is shown (but very small). if the position is not fullscreen, but different from any other, then it doesn’t appear.

My intent is to have the photos on one side (top to bottom) and have some other items beside it. If I leave it fullscreen and set showWidth to 60%, it almost works. It stays on the left, so I can put other items on the right. But the image isn’t centered vertically. There’s a black bar at the bottom that is never drawn. It seems to be centered vertically within the remaining space.

I’m trying to use this module and am having trouble. Right now I don’t see any output from it. No problem with the authentication step. auth_and_test.js gave me the AlbumId. The config I’m using is:

                        module: "MMM-GooglePhotos",
                        position: "top_right",
                        config: {
                                albumId: "A[removed for posting]dj4",
                                refreshInterval: 1000*60,
                                scanInterval: 1000*60*10,
                                sort: "random",
                                showWidth: "80%",
                                originalWidthPx: 800,
                                originalHeightPx: 600,
                                mode: "contain"
                        }
                },

The album exists and has 2 sample images in it. I don’t see anything relevant in the log:

Loading config ...
Loading module helpers ...
No helper found for module: alert.
Initializing new module helper ...
Module helper loaded: updatenotification
No helper found for module: clock.
No helper found for module: MMM-GooglePhotos.
Initializing new module helper ...
Module helper loaded: calendar
No helper found for module: currentweather.
No helper found for module: weatherforecast.
All module helpers loaded.
Starting server on port 8080 ...
Server started ...
Connecting socket for: updatenotification
Connecting socket for: calendar
Starting node helper for: calendar
Sockets connected & modules started ...


Ready to go! Please point your browser to: http://localhost:8080

System is pi zero running in server_only mode. (I’ve also tried on Windows/server_only as well, same behavior). I didn’t see if there’s a way to make things more verbose to see what the module is doing. I’m sure I’ve got an error, but I can’t see what it is.