Google Photos Integration

Feature Requests
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Probably be a pretty large body of work, but it would be amazing to have Google Photos integration so would could have a photos card :slight_smile:

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I’m totally new to Home Assistant. Slowly porting everything over from Smartthings. I have no clue how much work a Google Photos Integration would require, but I’d like to second this idea.

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I am surprised this hasnt caught on… any ideas on how to go about doing this would be greatly appreciated.

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okay so I figured this one out…

I created a file in <hass_home_dir>/www/gphotos.html with the following code ( thanks to: https://www.publicalbum.org/blog/embed-photos-slideshow-carousel-widget )

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/publicalbum@latest/embed-ui.min.js" async></script>
<div class="pa-carousel-widget" style="width:100%; height:480px; display:none;"
  data-link="https://photos.app.goo.gl/CSV7NDstShTUwUZq5"
  data-title="Mr. Monstro"
  data-description="4 new photos · Album by Pavel Macháček">
  <object data="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/XlH6wo2PzrAEqmplYrZwV0fI-2TafTT6BRwZhKDfZSHd_zT7HIdPyPWd3Xuqhn1QQADuTJ32QFmcgYiTOEU0sC4Bvf-VyTIiq-DxxEaxIeWDYyUK_VjaW8-zrMGBvekDZT77lpduYQ=w1920-h1080"></object>
  <object data="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/VvK__Vx8kpPTP57WZPLblacZbTE0NqWeIGTyHSQ8Rq9pvOpWQG_CQE_tOc6jHPtj02XIBYa0Zo9fWbXXQyNYs9hDGGj34QibKFJky4W9nYBpSb57OwxiQoDyo25vzIXMTN2SNxuzqg=w1920-h1080"></object>
  <object data="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/HISe-DV_b4gjLvSEGzrJlsqBU2rSE8uQpSqHHKTPihg_Ax9VtfCrOrvdXF01raBeBleAWQKI7Hfb4_w9vZeJKFymQfNTlubwXxTBTbqGTPwjg7S0CBtQsQJqsspvIhD9c-pniSZrEw=w1920-h1080"></object>
  <object data="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/05lhR1IAQY_B9rdQ_GvHDNLe1lJsSPyyuDeIMkt--gDDAnO2_EATwif7-sfNd2K_48RvyqKmN-u2svKZ06yfh8bnrbQ5kBUrIHfZvWheTzDGhIeFd1roPor-F_BycJmVKbQO6a9EaA=w1920-h1080"></object>
</div>

then i proceeded to create webpage lovelace-card with url: /local/gphotos.html

I have a carousel running on the dashboard now with my own google photos album. The hard part is to trust an external party with a link to your personal albums… which I didnt… and I did a wget <google_photos_shared_link> and then looked through the file for links that look like “https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/<some_very_long_random_code” and pasted them in the code above. a little static and crude for now but works very well.

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Oh nice! I will take a look at this later this weekend.

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Interessting. Any other custom implementations available? Is it possible to somehow make use of google cast?

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Is there a simple integration for Google Photos in the meantime? I ask because I would like to change my info monitor to a HA dashboard to maintain only one system.

At the moment I use MagicMirror2 for this. There I can display on my family album via an easy to implement module. Does anyone maybe see a way to add this functionality in HA as well? Unfortunately I lack the technical skills.

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Here it is! :white_check_mark: GitHub - Daanoz/ha-google-photos: Home Assistant Google Photos integration

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Thank you so much for your work!

Unfortunately I entered the wrong data, which are invalid. Where can I enter client ID and key again?

Edit: Found it. And it works great!

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Awesome! I just installed it! It’s fantastic. Need to see if there is a way to make a camera entity a background photo

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great work, I look forward to trying this as a screensaver on my tablet dashboard.
I wonder if it’d be possible to overlay other sensors onto the camera image (e.g. weather symbols, temperature, doorbell alerts etc)

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Did you find a way? I am looking for a way to use the photos as theme background.

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anything? wanting to do this too?