google-photos-slideshow 0.0.4

A communal live photo slideshow for Google Photos

google-photos-slideshow

NOTE: this project is in no way affiliated with or sponsored by Google Photos.

Quickstart

Install

pip install google-photos-slideshow

Run

google-photos-slideshow

• Ctrl+C to stop the slideshow.
• The first time you run this, it will prompt you for the public url to your google photos album.
• Future runs will use the same album unless you specify a different one using --url.

View

Open a web browser and navigate to http://localhost to view the slideshow.

Options

google-photos-slideshow --help

Features

Slideshow

• Play/Pause
• Speed
• Next/Previous
• Live Communal Controls
• Live reload from source
• Link to photo source
• Autoplay videos
• Add music

Support for multiple photo sources

• Google Photos
  • Public link only
  • Maybe add support for authenticated access?
• Local Folder
• Google Drive
• OneDrive
• Flickr
• Instagram
• Facebook

Switching photo sources

• cache url in untracked url.txt
• switch to generic config.yaml
• Change photo source live from UI

Photo order

• Random
• New loads first if added during slideshow
• Sort by date
• Sort by filename
• Allow user to sort
• Allow re-ordering from UI

UI

• Dark Mode
• Correct aspect ratio
• Live updating favicon (icon in browser tab)
• Don't cut off photos
• Better icons
• Improve speed control (vertical select 0.125x(0.5s), 0.25x (1s), 0.5x (2s), 1x (4s), 2x (8s), 4x (16s))
• Page title from photo source
• Support fullscreen (and exit fullscreen)
• preview carousel
• Chromecast support
  • Works when on http://localhost or http://127.0.0.1
  • Works when on http://<local_ip>

Upload Options

• Upload button
• Drag and drop
• Take a photo from phone camera
• Add a photo from a URL
• Airdrop to server??
• Bluetooth to server??

Install

• pip install
• Docker
• executable
  • Basic UI for selecting photo source
• walkthough selecting a photo source
• clear tutorial with photos of how to run each source
• serve by hostname on local network
• walk user through how to serve on their own domain
• offer hosted version

Documentation

• README
  • basic quickstart
  • Quickstart with photos
  • Show photos of end product
  • Feature plan
• Python
  • argparse commandline --help
  • some docstrings
  • full docstrings