Announcement: SmugMug-PMS3, a UPnP/DLNA interface for SmugMug accounts

lispnik · August 24, 2010

SmugMug-PMS3 0.1

I've just completed the first version of a ps3mediaserver plugin which exposes your SmugMug account photos over DLNA protocols. What does all this mean? It means I can watch my photos on the big TV in the living room via my Play Station 3, without copying anything locally. This is great for vacation photo slide show screenings, and even better with popcorn :thumb.

It may also work with other DLNA enabled devices.

It uses the SmugMug 1.2.1 API via. smugmug-java-api-0.6.0.

Once running, your Play Station 3 XMB will show a hierarchy similar to this:

Photos
    PS3 Media Server
        SmugMug Accounts
            youremail@example.com
                Recent Additions
                   (TODO)
                Albums
                    Album1
                    Album2
                        Image1
                        Image2
                        Image3
                        ...
                    Album3
                    ...
            otheremail@example.com
            ...

PilotBrad · August 24, 2010

lispnik wrote: »

It may also work with other DLNA enabled devices.

Very interesting. I've been looking to purchase a networked Blu-Ray player and I was just thinking it would be great if I could access SM from it. If and when I do buy one (probably a Sony), I'll give it a shot. Thanks!

lispnik · August 25, 2010

PilotBrad wrote: »

Very interesting. I've been looking to purchase a networked Blu-Ray player and I was just thinking it would be great if I could access SM from it. If and when I do buy one (probably a Sony), I'll give it a shot. Thanks!

I've only tried PS3 Media Server with a PS3, however there is an entire forum section dedicated to discussing alternative Media Renderers. Most of it concerns video rendering or transcoding though (perhaps image rendering works more broadly).

brecklundin · September 16, 2010

that's way cool...I have my SM account connected to my Roku box and can view it that way. I haven't looked in a while but there was an issue with odd scaling/cropping on the Roku's software so this could be a cool tool for those with a PS3.

PilotBrad · September 17, 2010

Pardon the thread drift, but...

With the Boxee box now slated for shipment in November, I am really hoping someone develops a SmugMug app for Boxee.

cabbey · September 17, 2010

lispnik wrote: »
SmugMug-PMS3 0.1

I've just completed the first version of a ps3mediaserver plugin which exposes your SmugMug account photos over DLNA protocols. What does all this mean? It means I can watch my photos on the big TV in the living room via my Play Station 3, without copying anything locally. This is great for vacation photo slide show screenings, and even better with popcorn .

It may also work with other DLNA enabled devices.

It uses the SmugMug 1.2.1 API via. smugmug-java-api-0.6.0.

Once running, your Play Station 3 XMB will show a hierarchy similar to this:
Photos
    PS3 Media Server
        SmugMug Accounts
            youremail@example.com
                Recent Additions
                   (TODO)
                Albums
                    Album1
                    Album2
                        Image1
                        Image2
                        Image3
                        ...
                    Album3
                    ...
            otheremail@example.com
            ...

What platform are you running pms on? I've been fighting with it on OS/X trying to get it to load plugins for a while now... no joy.

cabbey · September 17, 2010

cabbey wrote: »

What platform are you running pms on? I've been fighting with it on OS/X trying to get it to load plugins for a while now... no joy.

nm. A few minutes after I posted that I had a realization and got it working.

It's a great start! A couple bits of feedback for you:

it would have been nice to have noted that the prerequisite isn't just ps3mediaserver, but the unstable beta ps3mediaserver version. Otherwise there's no plugin support at all. And of course since it's not 'released' yet, there's no mention of how to get plugin support on the ps3mediaserver website. So it wasn't until I had dug into code that I realized I was running a version without any support for plugins!
I really shouldn't have had to rely on capturing the console output and reading the error message to learn the name of the plugin's config file. Based on the notes in the directions page I thought you wanted us to put the config lines in the main ps3mediaserver config file, not a plugin unique one that happens to colide with another tool I use. Could you rename it .smugmug-psm3.properties?
is there a todo item to filter movies out of the photos section? Or for that matter to show movies in the movies section? Would be really nice to be able to playback video.
Any chance it could be configured to use larger images? pretty hard to zoom in and see details with the current size limits.

lispnik · October 2, 2010

Thanks for the feed back! I've updated the project's documentation to mention the beta version as a dependency. I'm sorry you put a lot of effort into tracking that down. I've also specified the actual name of the configuration file in the documentation.

This weekend I'm making some headway with the configuration GUI (no need to edit a properties file), adding several recent photos folders (e.g. Yesterday, Last Week, Last Month). I really like the your suggestion about making the photo size configurable. I think in the configuration for each account, it would make sense to add a "Photo Size" setting that maps to SmugMug API's values: Large, XLarge, X2LargeURL, X3LargeURL, Original.

I released version 0.4 just now which includes the configuration file naming change (note, it is .smugmug-pms3.properties, not .smugmug-psm3.properties as you suggested below), updated the documentation and I've also documented the TODO list.

cabbey wrote: »

nm. A few minutes after I posted that I had a realization and got it working.

It's a great start! A couple bits of feedback for you:
it would have been nice to have noted that the prerequisite isn't just ps3mediaserver, but the unstable beta ps3mediaserver version. Otherwise there's no plugin support at all. And of course since it's not 'released' yet, there's no mention of how to get plugin support on the ps3mediaserver website. So it wasn't until I had dug into code that I realized I was running a version without any support for plugins!

I really shouldn't have had to rely on capturing the console output and reading the error message to learn the name of the plugin's config file. Based on the notes in the directions page I thought you wanted us to put the config lines in the main ps3mediaserver config file, not a plugin unique one that happens to colide with another tool I use. Could you rename it .smugmug-psm3.properties?

is there a todo item to filter movies out of the photos section? Or for that matter to show movies in the movies section? Would be really nice to be able to playback video.

Any chance it could be configured to use larger images? pretty hard to zoom in and see details with the current size limits.

knitterb · December 6, 2010

Here's a diff to sort the album list:

diff --git a/src/net/pms/external/smugmug/AccountFolder.java b/src/net/pms/external/smugmug/AccountFolder.java
index d2f352e..cef9299 100644
--- a/src/net/pms/external/smugmug/AccountFolder.java
+++ b/src/net/pms/external/smugmug/AccountFolder.java
@@ -18,6 +18,9 @@
  */
 package net.pms.external.smugmug;

+import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.Comparator;
+import java.util.List;
 import static net.pms.external.smugmug.SmugMugPlugin.getAccount;
 import net.pms.PMS;
 import net.pms.dlna.virtual.VirtualFolder;
@@ -53,7 +56,13 @@ public class AccountFolder extends VirtualFolder {
                        @Override
                        public void discoverChildren() {
                                super.discoverChildren();
-                               for (Album album : getResponse.getAlbumList()) {
+                               List<Album> albumList = getResponse.getAlbumList();
+                               Collections.sort(albumList, new Comparator<Album>() {
+                                       public int compare(Album a1, Album a2) {
+                                               return a1.getTitle().compareTo(a2.getTitle());
+                                       }
+                               });
+                               for (Album album : albumList) {
                                        addChild(new AlbumFolder(accountId, album.getID(), album.getAlbumKey(), album.getTitle()));
                                }
                        }

tntc · January 20, 2011

Do Image icon's work? I'm serving to a Samsung TV instead of a PS3. So it may just be that my renderer isn't using them.

tntc · June 9, 2011

some enhancements
Several months ago I made some mods to lispnik's module to add

category/subcategory navigation,
configurable image sizes, and
support for anonymous access and "Visitor View" of accounts.

Lispnik took the changes and they're in his source tree now, but you won't see them unless you're compiling from source. He didn't put up a new jar in the download area.

Alternatively, you can get a jar from my downloads, if you want these features.

IASolaria · November 26, 2011

Mac OS?
This is works VERY well on a PC (Windows 7)!

Is this plugin compatible with the Mac OS? If so, where does the .smugmug-pms3.properties file go?

Thanks

tntc · November 26, 2011

Yes, the the .smugmug-pms3.properties file should go in the home directory of the user running PMS3.

stefan · December 10, 2011

It does not work for me. Which version of pms3 can be used? I tried the final 1.50.0 as well as the BETA versions 1.50.0-b1 and 1.50.0-b2.

At the PS3 I'm able to see my categories and galleries. But whenever opening a gallery no images are found. And sometimes a DLNA error 2104 occurs.

Any idea?

Announcement: SmugMug-PMS3, a UPnP/DLNA interface for SmugMug accounts

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