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LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

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Re: LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

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Post by ripvanwinkle »

I am looking for a solution like this, can folks with experience comment on their experience with this(LibrePhotos) NextCloud or alternatives.

Aspects that I think are important include the community of maintainers in addition to the current state of functionality

Re: LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

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Post by edoceo »

ripvanwinkle wrote: post #3

I am looking for a solution like this, can folks with experience comment on their experience with this(LibrePhotos) NextCloud or alternatives. Aspects that I think are important include the community of maintainers in addition to the current state of functionality

I'm currently working to use more NextCloud. My prime objectives are for notes/b9kmark keeping and photos/media.

So far the setup was pretty easy on my VM but I kicked the tires with their VM image first. And so far the Android app is doing mostly OK. There is a lot to get into. And extensions out the wazoo.

I've not had to work with any community (yet) cause so far, it's just work - or there is some config I need to tweak (docs are great!)

With their VM and docker images tho, super easy to kick tires.

Re: LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

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Post by HomeDeLaPot »

ripvanwinkle wrote: post #3

I am looking for a solution like this, can folks with experience comment on their experience with this(LibrePhotos) NextCloud or alternatives. Aspects that I think are important include the community of maintainers in addition to the current state of functionality

I've used Nextcloud. Auto-upload from your phone is nice, but I haven't found a way to share arbitrary groups of photos except by copying them into a folder and sharing the folder. Also, thumbnail generation is slow and I haven't put in the time to try to speed it up.

I haven't used PhotoPrism, but wanted to toss it out there as an alternative.

Re: LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

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Post by s_gourichon »

Listed on https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#pho... though that does not mention the advanced capabilities like face recognition.

How does it perform with huge collections? https://github.com/Webreaper/Damselfly claims staying fast even with 4+TB 500,000 photo collection.

Re: LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

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Post by sammorrowdrums »

technojunkie wrote: post #8

This looks and feels very promising, nice. Is there any documentation on the difference between this fork and the original project? https://github.com/hooram/ownphotos

Appears there have been a bunch of fixes. There are also 217 forks of OwnPhotos.

https://github.com/hooram/ownphotos/compare/dev...LibrePhoto...

I don't know if the original repo and LibrePhotos will permanently diverge (that appears to be the intention), but I like you am a bit confused at the necessity for a permanent fork and I'd like to know more too before committing to a version.

Re: LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

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Post by hkt »

HomeDeLaPot wrote: post #5
ripvanwinkle wrote: post #3

I am looking for a solution like this, can folks with experience comment on their experience with this(LibrePhotos) NextCloud or alternatives. Aspects that I think are important include the community of maintainers in addition to the current state of functionality

I've used Nextcloud. Auto-upload from your phone is nice, but I haven't found a way to share arbitrary groups of photos except by copying them into a folder and sharing the folder. Also, thumbnail generation is slow and I haven't put in the time to try to speed it up. I haven't used PhotoPrism, but wanted to toss it out there as an alternative.

https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/previewgenerator

This builds the thumbnails in the background. I think it used to get triggered on upload but says it needs a cronjob now. Works OK on a folder of 40GB of photos.

What I still find irritating about photos in nextcloud is I keep mine in high resolution but nextcloud won't downscale them to fit the viewing device screen, so I use 20mb a photo with all the UX impairment one might imagine when actually a few kB would do. It'd be nice if it cached light, fullscreen versions and offered a "view in full resolution" button.

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