BalenaDash - photos service question (error)!!

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Folks,

Trying to get balena dash working on a RP 3+. I successfully deployed services (photos, scheduler, wifi-connect, wpe) but can’t seem to get the photos service to pull the pictures from a shared album; I’ve tried Apple and Google.

I keep getting the same resultant error back in the log console for “photos” service: “error: Could not parse album.”

Any ideas?

20.08.19 10:16:53 (-0400)  photos  
20.08.19 10:16:53 (-0400)  photos  > album-slideshow@1.0.0 start /usr/src/app~
20.08.19 10:16:53 (-0400)  photos  > node server.js
20.08.19 10:16:53 (-0400)  photos  
20.08.19 10:16:59 (-0400)  photos  📷 - Fetching images...
20.08.19 10:16:59 (-0400)  photos  🔀 - Shuffling images OFF 🔀
20.08.19 10:16:59 (-0400)  photos  error: Could not parse album.
20.08.19 10:16:59 (-0400)  photos  🐉 - Scheduler configured for 0 */12 * * *
20.08.19 10:16:59 (-0400)  photos  ✨ - Magic happens on port 8888

It is worth noting, if relevant, that I’ve updated npm to v6.10.3 and restarted the service.

Thank you.Tweakbox Appvalley

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Hello, it seems like the error comes from here https://github.com/balenalabs/balena-dash/blob/c63af18af3924c0aa3d6902520245b4925bdd395/photos/server.js#L321 .
What album url are you using ?

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It may also worth giving a try to our guidance and use Google Slides to make the photo slideshow