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 ====== Setting up Google services ======
-**This page is written for Vizy software version 0.1.103 or greater.  The older documentation can be found [[wiki:google_cloud_setup|here]] and [[wiki:google_cloud_setup2|here]].**  Vizy uses several Google services such as Google Photos, Google Sheets, and Gmail to communicate to the outside world and share its findings.  The main advantage of these is that they are all free and robust services that many of us are familiar with.
+**This page is written for Vizy software version 0.1.105 or greater.  The older documentation can be found [[wiki:google_cloud_setup|here]] and (somewhat recently) [[wiki:google_cloud_setup2|here]].**  Vizy uses several Google services such as Google Photos, Google Sheets, and Gmail to communicate to the outside world and share its findings.  The main advantage of these is that they are all free and robust services that many of us are familiar with.  They allow your Vizy to easily share data with you, such as pictures, videos, spreadsheets, files, etc.  It also allows Vizys to easily share data with each other and other Vizy users.
 ===== Creating a Google account =====
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 ===== Creating an API key =====
-The Google cloud services (Photos, Gmail, Drive, Sheets, etc.) require an API key.  This is a key that identifies the application that's making the API requests.  You need to create your own key because there are restrictions that make it impractical for us to provide one for you.  Fortunately, creating your own API key isn't too difficult.  It only takes a few minutes, and once you've created the key, you can use it with multiple Vizys.
+The Google cloud services (Photos, Gmail, Drive, Sheets, etc.) require an API key.  This is a key that identifies the application that's making the API requests.  You need to create your own key because there are restrictions that make it impractical for us to provide one for you.  Fortunately, creating your own API key isn't too difficult.  It only takes a few minutes, and once you've created the key, you can use it with multiple Vizys (Note, you could use the same API key with a few hundred Vizys, before daily access limits might be exceeded.  But since there are many more Vizys in the wild, we can't provide this key for you, unfortunately.)
 If you've already created an API key using our previous process, we apologize.  Google recently disabled the "out-of-band" confirmation code mechanism that we were using, so we had to change several things -- sorry about that.  The good news is that Google is unlikely to change things again any time soon. :-)
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-Next, check all the boxes, giving your Vizy access to everything it's requesting.
+Next, check all the boxes, giving your Vizy access to everything it's requesting:
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 You should then be presented with the message below:
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-So go back to Vizy tab in your browser.  If everything has proceeded without a hitch, you can now test your Google API key and authorization by clicking on **Upload test image**, **Send test email...**, and/or **Create test sheet...**  Note, photos/images will appear in [[https://photos.google.com|Google Photos]] page of the Google account that you created.  And emails will originate from the same Google account.  (It's almost as if Vizy were alive, yes?)
+So go back to Vizy tab in your browser, and if everything has proceeded without a hitch, you can now test your Google API key and authorization by clicking on **Upload test image**, **Send test email...**, and/or **Create test sheet...**  Note, photos/images will appear in [[https://photos.google.com|Google Photos]] page of the Google account that you created.  And emails will originate from the same Google account.  (It's almost as if Vizy were alive, yes?)
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