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chtaylo2 / Roku-GooglePhotos

Roku-GooglePhotos (https://www.photoviewapp.com)
https://channelstore.roku.com/details/133629/google-photos-album
MIT License
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In screensaver (but not channel), metadata is loading - but no images #390

Open darryllee opened 3 years ago

darryllee commented 3 years ago

Hi - in both preview and after the timeout, the screensaver "loads" with metadata listing different photo names, but the image is black.

I've tried lower screen resolutions, as well as switching from a Week in History to a "standard" album.

I even tried uninstalling and reinstalling the channel, and in preview, it's showing "Screensaver Paused" (one of your default images?) with no image.

This is on a Roku Streambar (OS version 10.0.0 build 4209-95), where it was working great up until maybe a week ago.

OH, and I did test going to the Channel directly and images did properly load up there. Odd!

darryllee commented 3 years ago

Bah. It was my Pihole. Weird. I was looking to see if any queries were being blocked before and didn't see any.

Bummer. I love blocking ads on my Roku...

darryllee commented 3 years ago

Odd. When I do Preview Screensaver, I see my Roku trying to go to www.googleapis.com, photolibrary.googleapis.com, and lh3.googleusercontent.com, and according to the Pi-hole, it successfully either returns a cached result, or passes those requests through to my upstream DNS server (I'm using familyshield.opendns.com with the Pi-hole.)

What I'm not seeing are any requests being blocked.

darryllee commented 3 years ago

And, after disabling Pi-hole for the past 5 hours, the problem is back - metadata loads with date/filename of images, but black screen displayed. So it's not a Pi-hole problem. Any ideas?

BTW, love the app. My kids aren't as excited about seeing pictures of themselves anymore, but my wife and I still love it. A similar feature was one of my favorite things about Google's Chromecasts.

darryllee commented 3 years ago

Ooooh, could this be a quota issue? Is there any way to configure the tool so that I could drop in my own API key to avoid hitting those limits?

chtaylo2 commented 3 years ago

You’re correct, it’s due to a quota issue which often happens late in the day. It resets at 12:00 AM PT. It’s not an issue with default Pi-hole installs.

Allowing developer API keys is a possible solution, but making it a reality is complex. Due to the registration only allowed from web redirects, what https://www.photoviewapp.com does, I’d have to code this into that site. Not sure how many people would actually use it..

toddbutters commented 3 years ago

I would be interested in using my own API keys. Could those interested host their own version of the photoviewapp website with their own API keys and link their Roku using it?

darryllee commented 3 years ago

A developer whose app also uses the Google Photos API ran into a similar issue, and he ended up joining the Google Photos Partner Program to increase quota limits:

https://developers.google.com/photos/partner-program/overview

He tells me that they were very helpful and responsive.

chtaylo2 commented 2 years ago

@darryllee - Yes the app is part of the Partner Program. In fact, we were one of the early adopters. Daily this channel handles 10's of millions of photos across all users. We're just still limited by this amount. Thanks for using the app