Is something like Pixelfed an option?
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?
#52Get the Monument device, attach as much external usb storage as you want and watch it do pretty much the same thing Apple Photos does but locally on the device. iOS and android apps. More than one user — my fam uses it. Plus you can backup the files to any SFTP storage. And the usb drives can mirror each other too. Highly recommend. https://www.getmonument.com/
Re: Ask HN: What are some self-hosted photo organizing/sharing programs?
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
+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?
I created an intranet portal for the house with a kind of prepper Internet. Plenty of things to do but no connection required, which is nice. It contains wikipedia, and other good kiwix packages like project Gutenberg. Our media and stuff.
Raising a young child, my partner and I try to model minimal phone usage and low Internet usage. But when you gotta use the Internet, it's fun to open up the intranet and let the answers flow from there.
Re: Ask HN: What are some self-hosted photo organizing/sharing programs?
#54Earlier 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…
You don't need any external accounts or services. You can turn on a dyndns service or a proxy service optionally, for convenience. You might need an account for those. You can and should wall the thing off.
What happens is, your photos only back up when you are at your house, or when you connect your phone to your VPN.
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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.
Of course, so would I. But I haven't found any kinda-good off the shelf solution. They're all sorta bad in their own way. Plex and Jellyfin constantly frustrate me with the bizarre unfixable issues I encounter.
Re: Ask HN: What are some self-hosted photo organizing/sharing programs?
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
You don't need any external accounts or services. You can turn on a dyndns service or a proxy service optionally, for convenience. You might need an account for those. You can and should wall the thing off. What happens is, your photos only back up when you are at your house, or when you connect your phone to your VPN.
I misunderstood.
You were talking about sharing to external family, oops
It would be cool if we could do peer to peer federation.
Re: Ask HN: What are some self-hosted photo organizing/sharing programs?
#57I've been trying to find a tool that would could do the following steps:
1. Find all the photos (and ideally videos) in multiple, nested directories.
2. Copy the found files over to a single new directory, ignoring any duplicates.
3. Rename the photos in a standard way, ideally using the creation time.
Does anyone have any recommendations?
Re: Ask HN: What are some self-hosted photo organizing/sharing programs?
#58I use eagle.cool and sync the lib with rsync.
Re: Ask HN: What are some self-hosted photo organizing/sharing programs?
#59I've been trying to find a tool that would could do the following steps: 1. Find all the photos (and ideally videos) in multiple, nested directories. 2. Copy the found files over to a single new directory, ignoring any duplicates. 3. Rename the photos in a standard way, ideally using the creation time. One tool that was recommended was PhotoStructure, but I wasn't able to make it do what I wanted. :/ Does anyone have…
Howdy! I'm the author of PhotoStructure.
PhotoStructure does exactly what you're asking: https://photostructure.com/getting-started/automatic-library...
Note that this is a paid feature, but I give free trials (without giving a credit card!), and discounts to a ton of people--including equalization for living in a country with less buying power, open source developers, and "making the world a better place." Details are here: https://photostructure.com/about/pricing/
If you can't make it work for your situation, please post to the support forum https://forum.photostructure.com/ or hop into the discord channel https://photostructure.com/go/discord : we'll try our best to get you set up.
Re: Ask HN: What are some self-hosted photo organizing/sharing programs?
#60Get the Monument device, attach as much external usb storage as you want and watch it do pretty much the same thing Apple Photos does but locally on the device. iOS and android apps. More than one user — my fam uses it. Plus you can backup the files to any SFTP storage. And the usb drives can mirror each other too. Highly recommend. https://www.getmonument.com/
Does the Monument device have the option to share albums/folders across the Internet? Do I need to open a hole in my firewall for this?
Edit: I've reached out to the Monument team as well.