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1. #GOOGLE PHOTOS SCREENSAVER WINDOWS 10 CRASHING INSTALL#
2. #GOOGLE PHOTOS SCREENSAVER WINDOWS 10 CRASHING ANDROID#

Last but not least, prepare your virtual piggybank: By default, Photo Screensaver shows only your 50 oldest photos - basically a trial mode so you can check the app out and see if it's right for you. Make sure Photo Screensaver is selected, and set how much time you want to go by before the screensaver kicks in.

#GOOGLE PHOTOS SCREENSAVER WINDOWS 10 CRASHING ANDROID#

Once you have everything set to your liking, you'll want to hop over to the Display section of the main Android TV settings and look for the option labeled "Daydream" (yes, that term was used for screensavers on Android before it became the name of Google's new VR platform). Oh, and make a mental note: With this setup, you can manually skip forward or back anytime the slideshow is playing - if you ever come across a photo you want to bypass quickly or maybe see again - by pressing the forward or back button on your Android TV remote. There's a setting called "Smart Random" that's supposed to help "intelligently" pick what pictures are displayed, but I've found we've gotten far better variety with that feature disabled in fact, my wife and I have both noticed that we're seeing a much more varied and diverse selection of images now than we ever did with the Chromecast, which for some reason always seemed to revisit the same relatively small pool of pictures from our collection. You can also pick what sort of info is shown on the screen along with each image - a clock, the name of any currently playing music track, and photo date or album info. The app lets you select exactly how long each image should stay on the screen as well as how different types of photos should be handled in terms of cropping or fitting to your TV's dimensions. And you can specify which albums you want to be included from any of those services, in case you need to exclude certain (ahem) extra- personal photos from being featured. You can also opt to connect it to Facebook, Flickr, and 500px in addition, if you have images in any of those places and want some extra variety. The first thing you'll want to do, of course, is connect the app to your Google Photos library. The app you want is by a developer named Furnaghan.) Open that sucker up, and take a minute to poke around through the options.

#GOOGLE PHOTOS SCREENSAVER WINDOWS 10 CRASHING INSTALL#

(Open the Play Store app on Android TV, then search for that title and install it. Ready? All you've gotta do is download an app called Photo Screensaver onto your Android TV box.

The Android TV-Google Photos screensaver solution