Background Combos (2 in one)

[Damienlee69]

I have zero idea how possible it is, but it'd be cool to have the ability to use your albums as a background and/or screensaver. Also, (I may have missed this), but, maybe the possibility to combine albums into one "slideshow". I know you can have multiple cards/multiple albums, but a combine line would be nice; use_album: album1, album 2. I dunno. Anyways, great work. Cheers.

[Daanoz]

With regards to the first question, that's hopefully coming very soon, coincidentally I created a PR today over at the lovelace-wallpanel repository doing exactly that!

For the second question, that's a bit more tricky since searching multiple albums is not natively supported by the Google Photos api. I do plan to build some functionality to use more of the advanced search functionality that's available.

[Damienlee69]

Oh awesome.

Ya, Google needs to loosen up on your own damn photos. Among other things. Like make it easy to integrate into HA. But ya, photos/albums is strangely hard to use the way you'd actually want to, even within their own ecosystem.

[Daanoz]

The maintainer of the lovelace-wallpanel extension has merged my changes, so from version 4.8 onwards of that extension you can combine both!

Example

wallpanel:
  enabled: true
  hide_toolbar: true
  hide_sidebar: true
  fullscreen: true
  image_url: media-entity://camera.google_photos_favorites_media