[RELEASE] PicasaWeb - Picasa Web Albums Image Plugin Addon

Hi. Love the add-on. Could I request a feature?
I would like the ability to download images through the PicasaWeb add on to my network. Is that possible?

In fact, just add this option to all your add ons. lol. I love it.

Version 0.9.2

Changes:
- Added the ability to download photos to defined writable file locations. Use 'Download' from photo context menu

On my REPO.

This should be able to download to locations defined in the XBMC file manager, as long as XBMC thinks it can write files to them. In testing I've successfully downloaded to samba locations without issue.

Thanks again for adding this. I use your add-ons just about every day.

Is there any way to hook Picasa starred photos into the XBMC screensaver?
Sorry if this is the wrong thread, thought I would check.

There seems to be no way to get STARRED photos from Picasa (desktop) or Picasa Web to show up anywhere.
Any ideas

(2013-04-01 21:39)emagin Wrote:  Is there any way to hook Picasa starred photos into the XBMC screensaver?
Sorry if this is the wrong thread, thought I would check.

There seems to be no way to get STARRED photos from Picasa (desktop) or Picasa Web to show up anywhere.
Any ideas

First, just to be clear this addon does not and never will have anything to do with the Picasa desktop

I don't regularly use the addon, so I did a quick web search, and it looks like you can star photos in the desktop application, and then they show up in a special album called 'Starred Photos' on picasaweb.

If I'm wrong about the above let me know.

Anyway, you should be able to use my Plugin Slideshow Screensaver (not the XBMC Slideshow Screensaver) addon to view these photos.
In the settings for the addon you can navigate the plugin to the 'Starred Photos' album. The screensaver will then display those photos.

You can get my screensaver addon by installing my repo from the zip in the link in my signature.

Roger that! Worked great. Thank you!

(2013-04-01 21:58)ruuk Wrote:  Anyway, you should be able to use my Plugin Slideshow Screensaver (not the XBMC Slideshow Screensaver) addon to view these photos.
In the settings for the addon you can navigate the plugin to the 'Starred Photos' album. The screensaver will then display those photos.

Hi.

First, I'd like to say a big thank you for a really useful plugin. I am using the Picasa photo plugin along with the Slideshow plugin linking to Picasa.

I have a feature request, which is it would be great if the Slideshow plugin can cache the photos read from Picasa.

This would mean that at startup, if there was no Internet connection available, that photos would still be displayed rather than the "Connection Refused" error that occurs at the moment.

Secondly (some people always want more, don't they!), another neat feature would be to periodically refresh the Picasa Album list so if the photos change while viewing, that the Slideshow incorporates them. It may already do this of course... I've not tried yet.

Anyways, thank you for a really useful addon.

RW.

(2013-05-15 05:56)realwarder Wrote:  I have a feature request, which is it would be great if the Slideshow plugin can cache the photos read from Picasa.

This would mean that at startup, if there was no Internet connection available, that photos would still be displayed rather than the "Connection Refused" error that occurs at the moment.

I could probably do something there. Could you describe a scenario that represents how you use the addon? That will help me make decide how to implement the caching.

(2013-05-15 05:56)realwarder Wrote:  Secondly (some people always want more, don't they!), another neat feature would be to periodically refresh the Picasa Album list so if the photos change while viewing, that the Slideshow incorporates them. It may already do this of course... I've not tried yet.

No. it doesn't do that now. My assumption was that as a media center screensaver, it will be running for relatively short periods of time, so refreshing every time the screensaver loads was sufficient.
It sounds like you must have atypical usage habits (well, atypical to my assumptions anyway ) which is another reason why it would help if you describe how you use it.
In any case, I could probably add that as well.

Also, just FYI, there is a thread for the Plugin Screensaver at http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=153057. Probably we should move the discussion over there as that is the addon in question