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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 elliotpage »

olliebennett wrote: post #28
hkt wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 on…

PhotoPrism ( https://photoprism.app/ ) generates a few different preview image ('thumbnail') sizes to support efficient use in different situations More info: https://docs.photoprism.org/user-guide/settings/advanced/#im...

I have just about finished setting this up on my own home lab- the documentation isn't as comprehensive as I would like but it has ingested my 52GB of photos and is serving them up nicely!

Re: LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

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Post by glenstein »

arendtio wrote: post #44

There are two projects I would mention in the same spirit: - https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism - https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed While I think photoprism has a very similar scope, pixelfed has stronger emphasis on federation. The project website gives a nice overview over different providers: https://pixelfed.org/

Love seeing Pixelfed mentioned here. I've thought of it as an Instagram replacement but if it's practical as a Google photos alternative that's an added bonus.

Re: LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

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Post by ape4 »

iforgotpassword wrote: post #23

Incidentally I've been trying out Digikam for the last couple days, mostly because of face recognition. The whole app is pretty slow on lower end hardware, they even recommend having an SSD which my travel laptop which I tested it on doesn't have. That's when I thought I should look for a web based solution because that would also solve acessing and managing the lib from multiple devices, and now there's this post he…

I am also trying digiKam this week. Sadly the face recognition is unusable. For example I tagged one photo with Name1 and many other photos with other names. But it always suggests Name1.

Re: LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

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Post by [deleted] »

olliebennett wrote: post #35
tauntz wrote: post #27

What's the current recommended way of getting your photos out from Google Photos? And I don't mean manually via Google Takeout (that's a dumpster fire and doesn't work most of the time) but I'd like to automate it for periodic backups. You never know when you Google Account might be killed, taking tens of years of pictures and videos with it :(

Be aware that Google Photos' API does not provide geolocation (lat/long) information from the photos; it's wiped. AFAIK The only way to get the photos with all metadata intact is to use Google Takeout.

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Post by kn100 »

ax0ar wrote: post #2

I wonder how this will perform when you have tens or hundreds of thousands of photos.

I tested it a few months ago hosted on my desktop (Ryzen 2600 6 core CPU, 16gb of RAM) with my entire photo library of around 100k photos - or about 60gb of data, and the performance was better than I expected. The ML image classification stuff it does took a few hours for sure, I left it go overnight, but then in the morning the ability to filter for specific classifications or jump to a specific date was pretty much as fast as you'd expect it to be (almost instant). This was using the default SQLite config.

The one thing I wished was that the ML Classification stuff it did was better - because it was nowhere near as good as what Google does with Photos, and nowhere near as useful for that reason. I still deeply miss Google Photos.

For context, my setup is pretty old fashioned these days. I plug my phone in, and use Shotwell to import the photos into my local photo library. Duplicati does a backup of all my photos once a week to Backblaze. Photoprism reads from my local copy and allows me to effectively browse my photos at home.

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Post by StavrosK »

glenstein wrote: post #62
arendtio wrote: post #44

There are two projects I would mention in the same spirit: - https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism - https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed While I think photoprism has a very similar scope, pixelfed has stronger emphasis on federation. The project website gives a nice overview over different providers: https://pixelfed.org/

Love seeing Pixelfed mentioned here. I've thought of it as an Instagram replacement but if it's practical as a Google photos alternative that's an added bonus.

I also know of it as an Instagram-type experience, and it's quite good at that, too. From my limited usage, I don't think it could replace Google Photos, though.

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Post by tauntz »

nerbert wrote: post #43
tauntz wrote: post #27

What's the current recommended way of getting your photos out from Google Photos? And I don't mean manually via Google Takeout (that's a dumpster fire and doesn't work most of the time) but I'd like to automate it for periodic backups. You never know when you Google Account might be killed, taking tens of years of pictures and videos with it :(

What’s wrong with google takeout? I’ve transferred everything to iCloud without any issue.

I'd say about 90% of the time I get the dreaded "However, we were unable to create a copy of all your files" message in the takeout email.

After multiple retries, it eventually succeeds but it's a manual process and using this for regular backups is extremely time consuming and frustrating.

Going through the process just once is definitely doable though :)

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Post by oarsinsync »

sammorrowdrums wrote: post #57
oarsinsync wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Given the last commit on ownphotos is from 2019, that seems likely and reasonable

At some point it might also be worth detaching the fork too in that case.

What do you mean by detaching the fork?
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