Picasa web albums

"colincliff" wrote:
Hi belltown, I've been looking for a way to restore Picasa access to my NowTV box (based on a roku unit). Your updated channel looks perfect for this.

Unfortunately the only way to add any channels other than the few approved ones is via developer mode (as demonstrated here for plex)

I tried to use the zip file from your github to side load to the unit but get the error 'Install Failure: No manifest. Invalid package'

I have no experience coding for a Roku, so wondered if there is anything obvious I am doing wrong, or are the files on Github not set up to sideload?

Apologies if none of this makes sense!

You can't side-load Picasa2 from the zipped GitHub repo because the project uploaded to GitHub does not contain the OAuth2 key, which is developer-specific. You'll need to get your own key.

Click the 'Download ZIP' button on the GitHub page. This will download the file, Roku-Picasa2-master.zip. Extract the contents of that file then you'll have a folder called Roku-Picasa2-master. You might see another Roku-Picasa2-master folder inside that one. Whichever folder contains images, source, manifest, etc. will be the folder you'll use for your own Picasa project. That will be the folder you'll need to zip up yourself and side-load [Make sure before side-loading that the .zip file you are about to side-load contains source, image, manifest, etc]. However, the channel won't work until you set up your own OAuth2 key. See the file source\private-git.brs for instructions on how to do that. Once you've updated the private-git.brs file with your own OAuth2 key, go ahead and create your zip file and side-load it.