Google Photos as Dashboard Background Image

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Hello,
I am trying to use my Google Photo integration as the background for a dashboard. I had no issues getting it work with my wallpanel integration using a local image url
media-entity://camera.google_photos_favorites_media
however when I try to use this same as a local path nothing shows up. Does anyone have any advice?

Thank you in advance

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Googling and googling and I was not able to find any useful answer also :frowning:

Found in the Home Assistant documentation for Generic Camera that it serves the images via its server under /api/camera_proxy/camera.[name] (e.g. google_photos_favorites_media), but such a standard link misses all the auth information and results in “403 Forbidden” :frowning:

Any chance someone knows how to get the media-entity://camera.google_photos_favorites_media image URL, that it can be used as path for background image URL e.g. in a dashboard view?

views:
  - title: Main
    id: Main
    background: >-
      center / cover no-repeat fixed
      url('https://live.staticflickr.com/3798/11051378005_50b62511bb_b.jpg')

Simplifying: what to replace the https://live.staticflickr.com link with, to get an image from Google Photos Integration camera? :wink:

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I too am interested in this feature!

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This would be amazing!

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Hey guys just so you know I was able to get something equivalent working with the Wallpanel addon, there are instructions here GitHub - Daanoz/ha-google-photos: Home Assistant Google Photos integration

Getting as the dashboard background would be a better solution but this one works well