Cannot authenticate on Linux

[fbreitwieser]

Hi, thanks a lot for this great plugin! Looking forward to using it.

I'm currently stuck trying to authenticate. I'm on Linux with Obsidian v1.4 and tried with both Wayland and Xorg.

When I try to authenticate, the window opens asking me to choose an account, and then to give access to view the library.

However, when I click 'Approve', the window title changes to 'Approved Clicked', the content turns blank, and the popup window stays open. When I manually close it, I get a message 'Authenthication Failed'.

Can you help with this?

[fbreitwieser]

I just checked with the 'Google Calendar' plugin where I manage to authenticate. There, the login window doesn't open in a Obsidian browser window, but rather my standalone browser (Chromium in that case). Once finished, the browser displays 'Authentication successful! Please return to obsidian.' (URL there is http://127.0.0.1:42813/callback...)

[alangrainger]

I just checked with the 'Google Calendar' plugin where I manage to authenticate.

Excellent discovery! I will copy what they're doing there.

In the meantime (since that won't be today) do you have access to a Mac or Windows machine just for setting this up? All you need is to copy across the plugin's data.json file to your normal vault:

{
  "clientId": "",
  "clientSecret": "",
  "accessToken": ""
}

If you don't have access to a physical machine you could consider installing one in VirtualBox? Otherwise I will implement at some point the method from the Calendar plugin, since it sounds more reliable anyway and probably works on mobile, whereas BrowserWindow doesn't.

[fbreitwieser]

Thanks replying so quickly @alangrainger ! I'll use the workaround logging in on a Windows or Mac. Thank you :)

[Beingpax]

This doesn't work for me as well. The window is still stuck at this Approved clicked.

[alangrainger]

Thanks @Beingpax . I've started work implementing auth the same way as the Calendar plugin, hope to have something out next week.

[alangrainger]

Documentation has been updated and plugin updated again, should be working just like the Calendar plugin now.

Update the plugin to 1.6.2 and follow the updated docs here:

https://github.com/alangrainger/obsidian-google-photos/blob/main/docs/Setup.md

[fbreitwieser]

Thanks so much @alangrainger !! Just tested it out and it worked very well. (Minor issue was that a restart of Obsidian was required after the set-up, otherwise I'd get 'Error 400: redirect_uri_mismatches'). Thanks for your great work and plugin :)

[alangrainger]

Thanks for the update @fbreitwieser , much appreciated! That extra restart issue is now fixed in 1.6.3