Can anyone recommend one that would work over a local WIFI network without internet access?
Ask HN: What are some self-hosted photo organizing/sharing programs?
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Re: Ask HN: What are some self-hosted photo organizing/sharing programs?
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+1 for Synology photos. I back up automatically to my NAS, and sharing is a breeze. If you're going down the "self-hosted" path, Synology will be the answer a lot of the time. All your music and videos, etc. There's even a Google Docs-like office suite. I'm have kiwix on mine via docker and have self-hosted Wikipedia.
What does self hosted Wikipedia achieve practically?
If private, a private familiar photo history would be great...
There was a company called ORIGAMI that launched into private claiming to solves such - and they got acisition-hired before they could even launch and then the entirety of the team evap'd
but we still need a solid solution in a PI powered black-box with "facebook in a box for a family" with a familial social calendar...
this is what Nextdoor attempted to do - but its run by sketchy people I would never trust - we need a solid little container on a Pi that allows for a NAS of pics and a calendar and an air-tag tied to all our shit so we have a home hub that with a single click shows all the things/folks attached and then a timeline of all the pics taken (I appied to YC to this FN 10 years ago)
Re: Ask HN: What are some self-hosted photo organizing/sharing programs?
#33I am looking for something a little more specific to make a gallery out of screen shots with OCR and combining the dates and metatada with any text extract.
Photoprism looks close but no OCR.
Re: Ask HN: What are some self-hosted photo organizing/sharing programs?
#34Step 1:
Install XAMPP by going to https://www.apachefriends.org/download.html --
Download option "8.2.4 / PHP 8.2.4" or highest current version for your operating system. --
Note the directory where the files were installed. --
Inside the directory, open the "htdocs" folder. --
Create a folder here called "images" or whatever you like. --
Copy your images to this folder. --
Launch XAMPP, if not already launched.
Step 2: Download this free image organizer from https://www.files.gallery -- When you click on download it will download a single file called "index.php".
Step 3: Copy the index.php file you just downloaded to the images folder you created. -- Navigate in your browser to http://localhost/images/index.php (or replace images with whatever you named the images folder)
ENJOY!
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#35Install nginx. Put the photos in folders in your ~/www dir. Enable indexing. It's incredibly secure and has pretty much zero maintainence. Just link people to the http://yourIPhere/photos/ dir. It will be very easy for the wife to use since all she has to do is put the photo files in folders using the normal operating system GUI. This is something everyone knows how to do.
That's not really "photo organizing / sharing", that's just a directory listing. What you want from a photo specific software is things like thumbnails, exif info, powerful search, maybe indexing the content of the pictures (Searching for "dog") etc.
I feel like this is the kind of thing where an amalgation of Linux tools hacked together and based on this would offer a significantly better solution than most self-hosted media serving software I've seen.
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#36Backup/sync and also share - Nextcloud
Google Photos replacement - Immich
Just share some gallery that you have on a NAS with friends - PiGallery
Re: Ask HN: What are some self-hosted photo organizing/sharing programs?
#37Have a look at this list:
- https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#pho...
Personally I am looking into immich right now: https://immich.app
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
What does self hosted Wikipedia achieve practically?
If private, a private familiar photo history would be great... There was a company called ORIGAMI that launched into private claiming to solves such - and they got acisition-hired before they could even launch and then the entirety of the team evap'd but we still need a solid solution in a PI powered black-box with "facebook in a box for a family" with a familial social calendar... this is what Nextdoor attempted to…
The problem with centralizing everything like this is it becomes a honeypot and to make things worse it is expected to be run by the common non IT person who may not even recognize that they have been pwned. I admit it sounds like a dream, but realistically, I see how difficult it is to achieve.
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That's not really "photo organizing / sharing", that's just a directory listing. What you want from a photo specific software is things like thumbnails, exif info, powerful search, maybe indexing the content of the pictures (Searching for "dog") etc.
I feel like this is the kind of thing where an amalgation of Linux tools hacked together and based on this would offer a significantly better solution than most self-hosted media serving software I've seen.
If I'd have to choose I'd take a kinda-good off the shelf solution over a "Linux tools hacked together" solution any day.
Especially because I don't want to maintain something important like a photo collection forever. Having other people in the family being able to use it by just installing some mobile app off the app store is also a big plus.