MediaServer: Picasa
Picasa Media Server
Picasa is an online photo management and sharing application, that makes your photos available over internet.
The backend retrieves the photos stored there accessing the Picasa data API from Google and processes it for use by other UPnP clients.
Additional dependencies
The backend uses Google Data APIs Python Client Library (gdata) to access the web service API.
UPnP ContentDirectory structure
The exposed data is represented in this structure:
- Featured Photos
- My Albums
- album 1
- album 2
Albums are only available when there is a valid userid and password provided.
Configuration
The Picasa backend accepts these options:
- name:
- the name this backend should show up on your UPnP clients (defaults to Picasa Web Albums)
- refresh
- check with the Picasa servers every X minutes for updates on the photo data (defaults to 60 minutes)
- version
- instruct this backend to act as a UPnP A/V version 1 or version 2 Media Server
- userid
- the userid to login into your Picasa account
- password
- the matching password
