Stop using Google products. Uninstall Chrome, delete Gmail, etc.
Sounds like a Nest Frame is preparing for release to me
Here’s a slightly convoluted but effective way of syncing a dumb/simple digital frame with Google photos, by means of a raspberry pi zero
This API changes takes away the reason I pay for Google One storage so I can cancel it. If I understand the article correctly I can move to iPhone to keep a similar feature, I just need to heart s photo to add it. Might as well abandon Google altogether.
To be clear, users can still manually share Google Photos pics with connected frames.
It’s shitty that they removed apps ability to see all photos when authorized, though.
You shouldn’t be trusting google to store your photos anyways.
Or any third party, really…
Well, you are going to have to trust someone to store your offsite backup unless you can afford a second house somewhere. It should be a backup service where you can encrypt the data before uploading it though.
You can trust your own relatives or friends though - as long as you encrypt the drive you give them. Doesn’t have to be a service.
Fucking Google.
I’m still salty about them discontinuing synchronization between Google photos and Google drive years ago. Such an unnecessary and irritating move. Before that it was getting rid of the picassa desktop app which was actually quite a good photo library manager. The enshitification marches on.
I dumped Google photos for self hosted immich and it’s been great. Not sure if it has the ability to connect to photo frames but if you already self host anything else it’s not too much work to setup.
The only problem is, my internet’s upload speed is slow as hell.
Self hosted doesn’t necessarily mean hosted at home. Some of my stuff is for example hosted in a French datacenter for redundancy. At one point it was my only server space since hosting at home wasn’t feasible at that time.
I dumped Google photos for self hosted immich and it’s been great.
I went to install immich but it was very heavy… I don’t need AI in a selfhosted Google Photo’s replacement.
I’m sorry, but then you are the minority. AI image categorization and face recognition is amazing for finding specific pictures quickly
Try Nextcloud Memories.
Does that run on top of next cloud or can I run it independently of next cloud?
It’s a Nextcloud app.
I got it running on a raspberry pi and have disabled the machine learning parts in the docker compose file. Works great.
Those features can be disabled to ease up on resources.
Sounds like another reason to keep dumping google crap
Immich FTW
So I know that it has a API, but do 3rd party digital photo frames support it?
I mean you could put a stand on an old tablet. Personally I just put it on the TV.
Because of course it won’t
