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

#51

Is there any of these that can be pointed at a photo library on a NAS or harddrive, instead of having the application copy all the images into it's own location/database (which therefore required double the harddrive space)?

The static gallery generator sigal(http://sigal.saimon.org) supports this. You can configure it to include the original images in the file tree it builds, but instead of copying the images just make a symlink.

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

#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 hard coded since I wrote it for myself but can be easily broken out into command line options if needed)

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

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post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Will you have support for handling duplicate images? People are either super organised, or the complete opposite. When you have multiple copies for backup and then want to consolidate to a library you want to hide your messiness. I've been struggling to find a tool that handles that handles the duplicates problem within a web interface. I've been experimenting with some approaches including perceptual hashes and was…

I definitely hear you regarding duplication. This whole project evolved from a script I wrote to do just that. There is a concept of multiple versions (files) of an image so different edits with the same metadata timestamp will show only once and you'll be able to select the preferred one. I prefer to handle things this way to start and then suggest deletions based on same hash rather than deleting up front. I don't…

I like your approach. I'll play around more with your app. Thinking about the LR catalogs, I wonder how much is tied up there versus being written back to image metadata. It's probably better to see what data is there and recommended workflow before spending too much time.

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

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post #24

Is there one that can import Mac photo libraries an remove duplicate pictures by the way?

I am looking for this exact feature. Identifying duplicates from multiple back-ups. Is there a cool way?

Exiftool allows you to handle dupes while organizing photos.

http://owl.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/

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

#55

I've been unable to find an open source multiuser local photo product. I'd love for my whole family to upload cell phone photos and SD cards to a central place we could share and tag from, without it belonging to Google.

I run a small linux server that acts as a NAS. I rsync everyone's phones to a home directory, manually, and then pull that into a shared directory.

I just went through and renamed all my pictures by the exif create date, adding any unique names to exif UserComment.

I'm working on scripting all of this, but it works for me and I can pull data from anything into the directory. Everyone in the house can access it via samba and view the pictures.

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

#56

I've been looking for the same thing. An Apple Photo clone would be perfect, as I like this product very much, but I would like to have control over my photos.

Yeah, I’m in the similar boat here too. I have an iPhone, and a Mac, but any interface between the two is needlessly completely busted unless you use iCloud. I want out of that game.

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

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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…

I appreciate the "no dependencies" but it seems the client still needs NodeJS:

> It is build on React using the Create React App tool, written in Javascript and requries a NodeJS development environment.

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

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post #19

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.

Google Photos does some really handy stuff with facial recognition, which was super helpful when searching & collating photos. Doesn't help much for privacy, however.

My biggest complaint is how long it takes for facial recognition to occur. I like searching by name, and if I do a large upload, I might have to wait a couple weeks to get the groupings. I don't get a push notification, I have to go check and suddenly I have 100 faces to tag.

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

#59

Shameless plug: I'm currently working on a solution called Photonix, though it's still very much pre-1.0 at the moment. https://photonix.org/ Installation is fairly simple with Docker, frontend is web-based (React), backend is Python with a sprinkling of Tensorflow. So far auto-tagging of photos by location, object detection and colour is fairly decent. UI is progressing and is useable on most devices, though quite m…

I like this architecture and wil spin up a Photonix docker on my Unraid server in a few weeks or so. I wonder why you used graphql for the api?

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

#60

Not specifically for photos, but I have been a user of Perkeep, a long running project from one of the golang maintainers that focuses on long term storage of one's data: https://perkeep.org/doc/

Although it's no longer actively maintained (IIRC) and some of the importers are currently broken for me (Mastodon importer can't talk to Pleroma, Pinboard has a JSON error, Twitter gives random "account not found", etc.) Which is a shame because I really like Perkeep/Camlistore as a concept.

Could you try to troubleshoot some of the issues and open PRs? It doesn't take an army to resuscitate a project...

-- Edit --

Actually on checking, it doesn't seem like Perkeep is at all dead. I'm seeing several updates in the last month...

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