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Re: LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

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Post by StavrosK »

jdright wrote: post #78
StavrosK wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Photoprism looks great, thanks! I've been looking for a project like this, but my biggest requirement is that it doesn't move my photos from where they are, which no project I've found can satisfy. Everything insists on moving things to its own store.

I have the exact same issue. I've been looking for something that will just work and have both facial detection and "object" detection (dogs mostly). I think I tried photoprism a long time ago and it failed on my requirements unfortunately.

Which requirement did it fail, do you remember? I just installed it and it's indexing, and it found both faces and dogs fine so far (hasn't indexed much yet, though).

Re: LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

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Post by StavrosK »

cjbconnor wrote: post #79
StavrosK wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Photoprism looks great, thanks! I've been looking for a project like this, but my biggest requirement is that it doesn't move my photos from where they are, which no project I've found can satisfy. Everything insists on moving things to its own store.

Photoprism doesn't move photos around, I ran it in a docker container and just mounted my existing folder to /photoprism/originals and it worked fine.

Yep, I installed it and it seems quite good so far, thanks!

Re: LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

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Post by daehee »

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 :(

Check out this google photos export tool by the perkeep team: https://github.com/perkeep/gphotos-cdp

> This program uses the Chrome DevTools Protocol to drive a Chrome session that downloads your photos stored in Google Photos. By default, it starts at the most ancient item in the library, and progresses towards the most recent. It can be run incrementally, as it keeps track of the last item that was downloaded. It only works with the main library for now, i.e. it does not support the photos moved to Archive, or albums. For each downloaded photo, an external program can be run on it (with the -run flag) right after it is downloaded to e.g. upload it somewhere else.

Re: LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

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Post by mistrial9 »

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/

I built and installed PhotoPrism including the TensorFlow lib, but had to do some link-hacking to get TensorFlow to start on Debian, in my case. Once it was working and ingested a few thousand home photos, searching for color names was fun.

Shortly thereafter, the site was "bombed" with uploaded pictures. I tore the whole thing down. Beware.

Re: LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

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Post by jdright »

StavrosK wrote: post #81
jdright wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have the exact same issue. I've been looking for something that will just work and have both facial detection and "object" detection (dogs mostly). I think I tried photoprism a long time ago and it failed on my requirements unfortunately.

Which requirement did it fail, do you remember? I just installed it and it's indexing, and it found both faces and dogs fine so far (hasn't indexed much yet, though).

It was maybe 1 year ago, it was failing any recognition, it was just unable to index anything. I'll try again today and will test these other alternatives listed in other comments too, hopefully something will actually work now.

Re: LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

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Post by zaroth »

> You will need at least 10 GB of HDD Space for the docker images. It needs that space because of the machine learning models.

Are face detection models on the iPhone not run locally? Do they take up this much space on-device? Multi GBs just seems “large” for this?

Re: LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

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Post by Can_Not »

arendtio wrote: post #54
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 use Nextcloud for many years now and for many different use-cases, but photos is not part of it. Mostly because my Nextcloud runs on a SSD and my photos are too many. In addition, I feel like the Nextcloud performance and feature set would not be able to deliver a good user-experience. So if we are talking a just about a few hundred MB of photos, you are probably fine, but for anything larger I would recommend to c…

Any recommendation for personal photo gallery backed by S3 compatible API?

Re: LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

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Post by Can_Not »

HeckFeck wrote: post #49

> You need a x86 processor and it is recommended to have 8GBs of RAM. This is a bit much for a home cloud installation, but I could see it becoming what Invidious is to YouTube.

Most likely the machine learning features are what cause that.

Re: LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

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Post by gingerlime »

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/

I've been using the Beta version of Photostructure[0] for a while and am generally very happy with it.

It doesn't have all the bells and whistles, no ML etc, but it's also much lighter. Running on my Synology NAS inside a docker container just fine (with ~30k photos).

I also heard about Mylio[1] which looks nice, but haven't tried it. Somehow the privacy policy left me a little more concerned compared to the bold promises elsewhere. The pricing model also feels a bit off to me.

Neither are open-source though.

[0] https://photostructure.com/

[1] https://mylio.com/

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