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Re: Ask HN: Personal photo library recommendations? Open source, browser-based

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Post by damianmoore »

bloopernova wrote: post #108
damianmoore wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep, it should work fine with a read-only photo volume as it doesn't make any changes to photo files by default - it just needs to write to the DB which is configured as another container in the Docker Compose file.

Unfortunately I ran into issues with the docker-compose.yml method of running Photonix. I'll give it another try later and create a github issue for you. Thank you for replying to my question!

Sorry that it didn't work for you. Hopefully we can solve your issue.

Re: Ask HN: Personal photo library recommendations? Open source, browser-based

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Post by damianmoore »

bloopernova wrote: post #108
damianmoore wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep, it should work fine with a read-only photo volume as it doesn't make any changes to photo files by default - it just needs to write to the DB which is configured as another container in the Docker Compose file.

Unfortunately I ran into issues with the docker-compose.yml method of running Photonix. I'll give it another try later and create a github issue for you. Thank you for replying to my question!

You might just want to try making a copy of a smaller selection of your photo library in a new folder and giving that to Photonix to try out. That way it doesn't matter if anything were to get removed.

Re: Ask HN: Personal photo library recommendations? Open source, browser-based

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Post by sfifs »

howerkraft wrote: post #106
sfifs wrote: post #52

I created NasPics specifically for this reason. I wrote it in pure Go with no dependencies for ease of cross compilation since my NAS runs a weird old Debian based distribution of Linux on ARM. Running it is just cross compiling a binary, copying over and executing. For restart across boots, I just added a simple SystemD service file. https://github.com/srinathh/naspics (edit: some data destination paths are probably…

Do you have a demo somewhere or some screenshots of the client?

Yeah I should probably improve the README file.

https://m.imgur.com/gallery/gNFw1PU

https://m.imgur.com/gallery/NzatdKZ

Re: Ask HN: Personal photo library recommendations? Open source, browser-based

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Post by yboris »

Shameless plug: if you are want a library for videos, I created an MIT open source Video Hub App - nearing version 2.0.0

https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App

Sorry unsure about good photo alternatives, but my first place to research is https://alternativeto.net

Re: Ask HN: Personal photo library recommendations? Open source, browser-based

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Post by mceachen »

damianmoore wrote: post #95
mceachen wrote: post #90

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OMG, me too. @damianmoore, I've banged on this issue for > 2 years now and have a pretty solid deduping algorithm. I'd be happy to share what I've got with you.

Cool, share or PM me a link and I'd love to take a look.

You don't have any contact info here or on github (or in whois). Feel free to DM me @ https://twitter.com/mrm or send me an email.

Re: Ask HN: Personal photo library recommendations? Open source, browser-based

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Post by tenebrisalietum »

Try Shimmie2. It works like the danbooru or ouroboros style imageboards. Requires LAMP stack and php-gd, and ffmpeg if you want video thumbnails.

- Stores files by md5 hash and doesn't allow duplicates.

- Database is used to store tags and support searching and is not very large.

- Can tag pictures and search by tag.

- Is fast. Can handle large number of images and large number of search results.

- Can enable pools feature and arrange pictures in a pool.

- Can enable wiki feature, which while primitive, is nice for adding notes.

- Is multiuser.

Re: Ask HN: Personal photo library recommendations? Open source, browser-based

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Post by MrGilbert »

mceachen wrote: post #64

Personal plug: I'm working on PhotoStructure, after trying many, many open source photo projects (and being a committer for years of one of the most popular, "gallery.") PhotoStructure is browser-based (using Vue), and scales to hundreds of thousands of assets over millions of files. Your library can be created on a Mac, saved on your NAS, then later opened and managed by a Linux box, seamlessly. Raw images have high…

Also just signed up for the beta. :) If I can choose, I'll pay for a project that allows self-hosting rather than pumping my pictures into the cloud. I'm doing the same for Bitwarden, my go-to password manager.

Re: Ask HN: Personal photo library recommendations? Open source, browser-based

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Post by jamesbr »

bloopernova wrote: post #42
canada_dry wrote: post #5

I'd love to find one that incorporates the functionality that Picasa (windows desktop) circa 2000 i.e. face recognition/matching. It was way ahead of it's time, and actually worked! Best of all, it did everything locally... not cloud based and thus retained privacy of your personal photo collection.

Picasa was so useful, so of course Google had to kill it. It took multiple disparate photo directories and presented everything in a timeline of folders. And because everything was local, that happened quickly, rather than waiting for your browser to get the next 100 photo results from a javascript call or whatever. Are there any photo clients for windows that present multiple folders as a single coherent timeline? A…

I use and like Mylio (https://mylio.com/). Does face recognition & syncs to other devices without being in the cloud. I migrated from Aperture/Picasa to Mylio.

Re: Ask HN: Personal photo library recommendations? Open source, browser-based

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Post by pR0Ps »

Seems like a lot of people have their own solution, I'll add mine to the pile: https://github.com/pR0Ps/PhotoFloat

Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/F6w8Ixz.png (just took it now so I redacted some info)

It consists of 2 parts:

- a Python script to parse metadata from photos into json files and create thumbnails.

- A JS-based frontend that consumes the json files and thumbnails to provide a UI.

Features:

- Can be hosted completely statically making it ideal for low-power servers

- Serves up your photos in the same file structure as they are on the disk

- Works with many types of photos, including most raw files

- Parses and displays common EXIF data

- Works well on slower connections (minimal HTML+CSS+JS, small thumbnails, placeholders, preloads images as you view, etc)

Re: Ask HN: Personal photo library recommendations? Open source, browser-based

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Post by jonathankoren »

damianmoore wrote: post #82
jonathankoren wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have something that works fairly well for duplicates and automatic organization based on date. It’s python, so you can try integrating it, but it’s not a module, just a single file script. https://github.com/jonathankoren/photo-autorganize

Thank you. I'll definitely check it out.

Reach out if you want help
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