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And you can specify which albums you want to be included from any of those services, in case you need to exclude certain (ahem) extra- personal photos from being featured. You can also opt to connect it to Facebook, Flickr, and 500px in addition, if you have images in any of those places and want some extra variety. The first thing you'll want to do, of course, is connect the app to your Google Photos library. The app you want is by a developer named Furnaghan.) Open that sucker up, and take a minute to poke around through the options.
#GOOGLE PHOTOS SCREENSAVER ON INSIGNIA TV INSTALL#
(Open the Play Store app on Android TV, then search for that title and install it.
#GOOGLE PHOTOS SCREENSAVER ON INSIGNIA TV TV#
Ready? All you've gotta do is download an app called Photo Screensaver onto your Android TV box.
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I tried once with a free instance of PRTG for about five minutes but didn't want to take the time to set it up for the test.The Android TV-Google Photos screensaver solution I'd look myself just to put this to rest, but I don't have a powerful enough traffic analysis tool to do it, and my Mikrotik router doesn't keep traffic stats (though it can send them to something else). I've actually never seen anyone come back with a real analysis of ONLY traffic bound for external addresses though. No access point is going to be able to make that differentiation, and MOST routers don't, so every time one of these posts come up I have to re-explain this. Your router stats have to differentiate between traffic originating from the device that traverses the WAN, or this traffic is going to throw your usage WAY, WAY off. On a local LAN its probably a drop in the bucket in terms of traffic. In addition, when a cast Receiver is running, it is CONSTANTLY publishing information to connected clients like every 1 - 2 seconds with a JSON message thats not HUGE, but isn't SMALL either (it contains a lot of media metadata, playtimes, device status, etc.) As part of that connection, it is sending a constant keep alive ping, which explains why he's seeing that packet traffic. my take on what hes seeing is due to Chrome maintaining a Cast connection to the Google Home. That said, I don't think the guy that did this knows the cast protocol or what it does. Even if it were 10 times that in reality, its less than a gig a month still, and all internal (mDNS doesn't traverse a routed network). Assuming an mDNS packet size of 512 bits thats roughly 150 megs a month.
Its sending mDNS advertisements about once every second or two. Every time this happens it makes me want to find some other open source solution that's less convenient but more likely to be something I can fix on my own and tell big G to go f themselves.īased on some of the findings with a Home at least: Even better would be if the router (Google WiFi, so it's still in the ecosystem) could cache the mdns responses and send them all together to my phone when I press the cast button. It's beyond me as to why Google doesn't store this data somewhere on the device so that it automatically populates with the same list when you're on the usual WiFi network. When I try to cast my podcast to the kitchen display, I press the cast button in the app and then almost always mis-click because the list might populate with the display I want, and as I go to click it the list shifts to include new inputs. I also have gHomes in each room and a few smart displays in key spots (bedroom and kitchen). I use Chromecast across my house for convenience and because I never know where my toddler hid the TV remote.
Most frustrating is that it's not stored anywhere sensible for quicker access.
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