Nest photo albums

[Nest_NTIMID8R]

So I'm looking for help to display a specific Google photo album on my nest display. 

My goal is "HEY GOOGLE, display NEST RECIPES ALBUM on kitchen nest". 

Basically, I've got a few recipes in a Google photos album that are screenshots of stuff I've googled.

The best I can find is to go into the HOME app > all devices > Kitchen Nest > gear icon > photo frame > Google photos > (select) Nest Recipes (album)

I had to turn "personal photo curation" to "live albums only" to get the screenshotted recipes to display in the preview and as basically the recipes as a Screensaver on the nest device itself...

But when I ask the Google assistant to display NEST RECIPES ALBUM ... Its confused and asks me to re set up my voice assistant, which I've deleted my voice training and redone.

If I ask it to display my Google photos it just gives me a list of photos that I haven't selected in the photo frame options... I don't get it... 

Any ideas for a better, simpler option to quickly and easily display my saved recipes via voice assistant command hands free? 

[Quill]

Hi @Nest_NTIMID8R!

     As you've discovered, voice commands for displaying photos that don't contain identities is not natively supported currently.

    Hopefully in the future we see Gemini become as capable in home voice as it is through text, it feels like the ghost of Google Assistant is still haunting Gemini for Home. 

    I can think of a solution that will allow you to pull up all of your recipes, but it will still require some manual input to navigate through them. 

  If you upload your photos to a Google Site and store it natively in your Drive, then copy and paste the link into your automation action it should use the built in browser to pull it up. You could scroll through all of them no problem. 

If you really wanted to spend time on the project, you could create multiple pages, one for each uploaded recipe, and multiple automations. This would be incredibly time consuming, but would technically be a work around. 

Unfortunately, this is the closest thing I can think of that would get Gemini to behave the way you would like. It will work, but it is not as simple as an out-of-the-box automation. 

    If this is something you're interested in trying and want some support or a walk through, let me know - it is a simple process, it just requires a little time.

I hope this helps!

Q

[Nest_NTIMID8R · Accepted solution]

Thanks for the idea... I kinda used that in a slightly different way. 

Using Google lens copy the text of the screenshot and paste it into a Google keep note. I put the entire copied text on the title and the note details and created a label with the recipe name...

I got two done so far.... To ask Google to show keep notes it brings up both that I can scroll thru (one by individual named label works, other doesn't YET!)

And if I then tap the note the nest will read it aloud. 

I think it's slightly less work than your method, but one would think Google engineers would have included at least access to all of my Google photos natively on the nest ... Hopefully they will wise up! 

[Quill]

I'm glad this was helpful in some way, great idea! In the future I hope devs consider this, especially considering one of the advertised uses is as a kitchen tablet.