(2016-08-24, 21:01)dmdsoftware Wrote: I assume you created the link Google Photos in. Everything should be accessible. Which version are you using of the plugin? gdrive or gdrive-testing? Photos are omitted if viewing from Video, by default, unless you change the plugin settings to filter nothing, or view in Pictures plugin.

(2016-08-24, 23:49)sabrex Wrote:

(2016-08-24, 21:01)dmdsoftware Wrote: I assume you created the link Google Photos in. Everything should be accessible. Which version are you using of the plugin? gdrive or gdrive-testing? Photos are omitted if viewing from Video, by default, unless you change the plugin settings to filter nothing, or view in Pictures plugin.

Ah, that was it! I had not checked the option from Google Photos to "Automatically put your Google Photos into a folder in My Drive" ... after I enabled that option in Google Photos settings, everything showed up and works perfectly Thank you!

This definitely does the job in terms of easily accessing photos and videos from Google Photos using Kodi. Have you thought about developing a stand-alone Google Photos add-on? Google is deprecating PicasaWeb and that add-on doesn't work for new users, so the author is suggesting somebody develop a separate app for Google Photos. The ability to access photos, videos, and albums (local or shared) would be pretty awesome.

(2016-08-25, 00:54)lollo87 Wrote: I join my account and I see the file list and the picture thumbnail, but when i click on it it opens a black screen and I can't see nothing.. I have tried with gdrive and gdrive testing and I experienced the same problem..

(2016-08-25, 00:59)dmdsoftware Wrote:

(2016-08-25, 00:54)lollo87 Wrote: I join my account and I see the file list and the picture thumbnail, but when i click on it it opens a black screen and I can't see nothing.. I have tried with gdrive and gdrive testing and I experienced the same problem..

It might take a few seconds before the first picture appears. To speed up pictures loading, I recommend you set a Cache folder (in plugin settings, Cache, Cache folder), so the pictures can be cached.

You can also right-click and select Start Slide Show.

(2016-08-25, 01:13)dmdsoftware Wrote:

(2016-08-25, 00:59)dmdsoftware Wrote:

(2016-08-25, 00:54)lollo87 Wrote: I join my account and I see the file list and the picture thumbnail, but when i click on it it opens a black screen and I can't see nothing.. I have tried with gdrive and gdrive testing and I experienced the same problem..

It might take a few seconds before the first picture appears. To speed up pictures loading, I recommend you set a Cache folder (in plugin settings, Cache, Cache folder), so the pictures can be cached.

You can also right-click and select Start Slide Show.

The reason things can slow down, if you open a folder containing a lot of photos, KODI will go off and try to cache the thumbnails. You'll see stuff like ...

Caching image 'https://lh6.googleusercont.....fuw=s220' to 'd/d6b65b93.jpg':

If you click on a photo, you'll see something like this, which represents the actual photo:

Loading the next image 103: https://doc-0o-24-docs.googleusercontent.com/docs/secures....

It can get a bit bogged down opening connections to cache the thumbnails to respond to fetch a single photo. By starting Slide Show, I find it start focusing on fetching the photos instead of the thumbnails

(2016-08-25, 10:30)lollo87 Wrote:

(2016-08-25, 01:13)dmdsoftware Wrote:

(2016-08-25, 00:59)dmdsoftware Wrote: It might take a few seconds before the first picture appears. To speed up pictures loading, I recommend you set a Cache folder (in plugin settings, Cache, Cache folder), so the pictures can be cached.

You can also right-click and select Start Slide Show.

The reason things can slow down, if you open a folder containing a lot of photos, KODI will go off and try to cache the thumbnails. You'll see stuff like ...

Caching image 'https://lh6.googleusercont.....fuw=s220' to 'd/d6b65b93.jpg':

If you click on a photo, you'll see something like this, which represents the actual photo:

Loading the next image 103: https://doc-0o-24-docs.googleusercontent.com/docs/secures....

It can get a bit bogged down opening connections to cache the thumbnails to respond to fetch a single photo. By starting Slide Show, I find it start focusing on fetching the photos instead of the thumbnails

Ok the photo has appeared after more than 30 seconds.. in the folder there are less than 10 pictures, I don't understand why the opening is so slow. I experience the same problem when I try to change the picture using the arrows keys on the keyboard. Is it normal that it takes 1 minute to change between each pictures??
I have set up the cache folder for pictures in my HD using the add-on "testing". With the last stable version of the add-on I can't edit the destination folder for cache, I think it is a bug.

(2016-08-25, 10:30)lollo87 Wrote:

(2016-08-25, 01:13)dmdsoftware Wrote:

(2016-08-25, 00:59)dmdsoftware Wrote: It might take a few seconds before the first picture appears. To speed up pictures loading, I recommend you set a Cache folder (in plugin settings, Cache, Cache folder), so the pictures can be cached.

You can also right-click and select Start Slide Show.

The reason things can slow down, if you open a folder containing a lot of photos, KODI will go off and try to cache the thumbnails. You'll see stuff like ...

Caching image 'https://lh6.googleusercont.....fuw=s220' to 'd/d6b65b93.jpg':

If you click on a photo, you'll see something like this, which represents the actual photo:

Loading the next image 103: https://doc-0o-24-docs.googleusercontent.com/docs/secures....

It can get a bit bogged down opening connections to cache the thumbnails to respond to fetch a single photo. By starting Slide Show, I find it start focusing on fetching the photos instead of the thumbnails

Ok the photo has appeared after more than 30 seconds.. in the folder there are less than 10 pictures, I don't understand why the opening is so slow. I experience the same problem when I try to change the picture using the arrows keys on the keyboard. Is it normal that it takes 1 minute to change between each pictures??
I have set up the cache folder for pictures in my HD using the add-on "testing". With the last stable version of the add-on I can't edit the destination folder for cache, I think it is a bug.

(2016-08-25, 00:55)dmdsoftware Wrote: You answered your own question Google stopped really being open some time ago, and when they release new products, they don't tend to release APIs for them. They released an API for Picasa, and as you noted, it is depreciated and only some time before it disappears. Google never released an open API. There is an API behind the scenes, that the web site and phone apps use, but it is closed. Google doesn't obviously want people developing apps that utilize Google Photos. We are fortunate of the tie-in to Google Drive so that we can use the Google Drive APIs.

How do shared albums work? Do they also appear in your Google Drive, or only your own albums?

(2016-08-25, 10:30)lollo87 Wrote:

(2016-08-25, 01:13)dmdsoftware Wrote:

(2016-08-25, 00:59)dmdsoftware Wrote: It might take a few seconds before the first picture appears. To speed up pictures loading, I recommend you set a Cache folder (in plugin settings, Cache, Cache folder), so the pictures can be cached.

You can also right-click and select Start Slide Show.

The reason things can slow down, if you open a folder containing a lot of photos, KODI will go off and try to cache the thumbnails. You'll see stuff like ...

Caching image 'https://lh6.googleusercont.....fuw=s220' to 'd/d6b65b93.jpg':

If you click on a photo, you'll see something like this, which represents the actual photo:

Loading the next image 103: https://doc-0o-24-docs.googleusercontent.com/docs/secures....

It can get a bit bogged down opening connections to cache the thumbnails to respond to fetch a single photo. By starting Slide Show, I find it start focusing on fetching the photos instead of the thumbnails

Ok the photo has appeared after more than 30 seconds.. in the folder there are less than 10 pictures, I don't understand why the opening is so slow. I experience the same problem when I try to change the picture using the arrows keys on the keyboard. Is it normal that it takes 1 minute to change between each pictures??
I have set up the cache folder for pictures in my HD using the add-on "testing". With the last stable version of the add-on I can't edit the destination folder for cache, I think it is a bug.

(2016-08-25, 18:24)sabrex Wrote:

(2016-08-25, 00:55)dmdsoftware Wrote: You answered your own question Google stopped really being open some time ago, and when they release new products, they don't tend to release APIs for them. They released an API for Picasa, and as you noted, it is depreciated and only some time before it disappears. Google never released an open API. There is an API behind the scenes, that the web site and phone apps use, but it is closed. Google doesn't obviously want people developing apps that utilize Google Photos. We are fortunate of the tie-in to Google Drive so that we can use the Google Drive APIs.

How do shared albums work? Do they also appear in your Google Drive, or only your own albums?

I wasn't aware that Google hadn't opened up the API for Google Photos. That's a shame. There's an article here pleading with Google to make the API openly available.

Albums in Google Photos simply allow you to create a new Album and quickly select what content belongs to that Album. You can optionally mark the album as a shared album and send the link to anyone. The option is available to let other Google Photos users add their own content to the same shared album.

Unfortunately, neither unshared nor shared albums will appear in Google Drive, but that's how my family and friends are sharing photos and videos with each other, since there is basically no need to re-upload the content anywhere. There is unlimited storage and the content is backed up anyway, so it's just a matter of creating an album and sharing the link and content from multiple people stays in one single place.

Here's hoping Google opens up the API at some point. In the meantime, the gdrive add-on is awesome for viewing the photos and videos in Kodi! Thanks again for your amazing work.

(2016-08-26, 10:35)lollo87 Wrote: The add-on take again too much time to change picture. Do something please!

(2016-08-26, 19:37)dmdsoftware Wrote: I just updated the -testing version (0.8.01) with the changes I mentioned would improve playback. Please update using the repository or link below.

(2016-08-26, 19:37)dmdsoftware Wrote:

(2016-08-26, 10:35)lollo87 Wrote: The add-on take again too much time to change picture. Do something please!

I just updated the -testing version (0.8.01) with the changes I mentioned would improve playback. Please update using the repository or link below.

A new option will appear in addon settings -> Pictures for changing the resolution.


http://dmdsoftware.net/repository.ddurdle-testing/plugin.video.gdrive-testing/plugin.video.gdrive-testing-0.8.01.zip