This is the name that will show up on the Consent Screen.Īfter the Consent Screen is setup select Create Credentials on the Credentials Screen and select OAuth client ID and then Desktop app.

When asked select External for your consent settings (only GSuite users can set Internal) and then the only compulsory field is an Application Name, you can call it for example “rclone”. This later can be configured again if needed via the OAuth consent screen on the left. If you do not have yet a configured Consent Screen a button will be on the Credentials screen called Configure Consent Screen. Now first you need to create an OAuth Consent Screen – this will pop up on your Raspberry when you connect rClone to your Google Drive. Go to the Credentials Screen by selecting Credentials on the left panel. The goal with creating your own Client ID and Secret is that you can use your own access to the API.įirst visit the Google Developer Console and create a new project. That will be done with the consent screen.īy default rClone shares an rClone owned Google Drive API Client ID over all connections done via the default config and this can result in performance limitations as Google puts a cap on the number of simultaneous connections, bandwidth, etc. It is important that this is not how rClone identifies and authenticates your Google Drive account. More information can be found here: Create a Google Client ID and Client Secret Confirm the Consent Screen on your Raspberry.Configure rClone to your Google Client ID.Create a Google Client ID and Client Secret.We need to accomplish the following steps to copy files to Google Drive with rClone: It is important to note that for a later step you will need your Raspberry open a webpage! Once you have rClone additional providers (other than Google Drive) can be used too. You could also run rClone in a separate container but I thought it is just easier and more efficient to have it on the host. It is important that we install the rClone on the Docker host and not in the HA Container.

We are using a tool called rClone to copy files to our Google Drive.

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