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==  Picasa Media Server ==

[http://picasaweb.google.com/ 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 [hhttp://code.google.com/apis/picasaweb/overview.html Picasa data API] from Google and processes it for use by other UPnP clients.

=== Additional dependencies ===

The backend uses [http://code.google.com/p/gdata-python-client/ 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 [source:/trunk/Coherence/coherence/backends/picasa_storage.py 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


=== Examples ===

'''FixMe'''

=== Open Tickets for this backend ([/newticket?component=MediaServer%20Backend%20Picasa new...]) ===

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