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Re: LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

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Post by beagle3 »

alisonkisk wrote: post #94
Bishonen88 wrote: post #93

For anyone moving from google photos and looking for alternatives, I recently transitioned to a NAS from Synology. They offer many apps, and one is very similar to this project, although a bit more polished. It's not open source, though (AFAIK). Performance with 2TB of movies and raw photos is awesome (60k files+). Indexing and face recognition took a few days, though. https://www.synology.com/en-global/dsm/feature/m…

It's amazing that synology would hold themselves back with a proprietary app when they are trying to sell hardware and are competing against Google and Apple.

Synology is selling an experience, like Apple, not hardware. It's a plug-it-and-it-works private-on-premise cloud. They are not competing with Google or Apple in the sense that customer usually decide on-premise or cloud-based and only then look for a solution (prices are on the same scale, so the reason to choose one over the other is usually not price).

Re: LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

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Post by mceachen »

deanc wrote: post #11
ax0ar wrote: post #2

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

There was a fantastic article by one of the frontend engineers at Google about how they built the UI for photos to be scalable: https://medium.com/google-design/google-photos-45b714dfbed1 There's no reason why the lessons learnt here couldn't be incorporated into an OS project.

That article addresses how to do a "scrubbable" infinite scroll for their timeline view.

Rendering correctly-scaled images is a different issue: Google Photos renders the image to the precise viewport dimensions (which is why it takes sometimes a couple seconds to render).

When I designed PhotoStructure, I knew I wanted everything to show instantly, so resizing is done to several common viewport sizes at import time (and these sizes are customizable). When you're browsing your library, your browser fetches the smallest variant that will still show with high quality based on native display resolution.

Re: LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

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Post by netsharc »

danez wrote: post #34

Is there a good android app for librephotos (or any other application) that offers similar features than Google Photos? A while ago I tried adding photos to my nextcloud instance, but the nextcloud app in my opinion is very rudimentary. I really missed face grouping, location search, the year based scrollbar, etc.

Google Photos also uses other means to add location metadata to photos, if you have Google Maps Timeline enabled that logs your location, and you've uploaded photos from another camera (e.g. DSLR), it will assume, based on the timestamps, that photos were taken at the location your phone says you were at that time. Sadly I doubt librephotos has that integration.

Hmm, one could take out one's Google Maps Timeline info as JSON, and write a parser for librephotos (or others) that adds the location metadata into the photos.

Re: LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

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Post by netsharc »

alvarlagerlof wrote: post #26

No screenshots and a broken demo

Huh, the demo looks empty at first glance, only if you go to Photos > Without Timestamp do you see any content.

It's easy to criticize, but huh, if this were a commercial product, a manager would be complaining to the appropriate team about how crappy the demo is. The Github page says the app has "slight focus on cool graphs" but the demo's "Data Viz" section is completely empty. EDIT: Oh not completely empty, the face recognition library has data.

I'm interested to see my frequency of photos per day/week/month, etc, so if I want to try that out I would have to install the whole thing locally.

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Post by wakkaflokka »

buzzert wrote: post #105

I’d really like to get off of iCloud Photo Library, but I’m not sure of a way to reliably and automatically sync photos off of my iPhone to a provider like LibrePhotos. Has anyone figured this out?

I'm trying to figure this out myself. I've gone from Google Photos -> iCloud -> testing out Unraid + PhotoPrism + NextCloud. That is, point PhotoPrism's import folder to the NextCloud photos folder. Both hosted on Unraid. And then on my iPhone, have the photos automatically uploaded. Only issue so far is I don't see an auto-detect and import option in PhotoPrism so I have to manually click 'import'.

Re: LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

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Post by glial »

buzzert wrote: post #105

I’d really like to get off of iCloud Photo Library, but I’m not sure of a way to reliably and automatically sync photos off of my iPhone to a provider like LibrePhotos. Has anyone figured this out?

Not sure about the upload part, but for getting photos out of iCloud, this works:

https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_do...

Re: LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

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Post by glenstein »

djsumdog wrote: post #74
glenstein wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It's a Fediverse program (uses ActivityPub) which lets people follow Pixelfed servers from any Mastoson, Pleroma or other server that implements ActivityPub. PeerTube is a similar service for video hosting. The Fediverse is the future, and the future is distributed.

Oh, I'm very aware, and very happy that this is the case. This to me is a major advantage that Pixelfed has over basically everything else in the thread.

I had never considered Pixelfed as a google photos alternative but am glad that something in the activitypub universe might be used that way.

Re: LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

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Post by glenstein »

StavrosK wrote: post #67
glenstein wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Right, that's what got me wondering. I've got an account on the flagship Pixelfed instance, and I started thinking whether that's a plausible use case - setting all uploads to private (or, I guess "unlisted" is the only available option) and effectively using it like Google Photos.

I guess it's a bit of a stretch but my preferred attitude is to be open minded and generally to cheer on the activitypub projects. They are, in the end, a force for good.

Re: LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

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Post by StavrosK »

glenstein wrote: post #109
StavrosK wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Right, that's what got me wondering. I've got an account on the flagship Pixelfed instance, and I started thinking whether that's a plausible use case - setting all uploads to private (or, I guess "unlisted" is the only available option) and effectively using it like Google Photos. I guess it's a bit of a stretch but my preferred attitude is to be open minded and generally to cheer on the activitypub projects. They a…

Certainly, but it's a free service hosted by volunteers, and I think uploading gigabytes of private photos would hurt the service for no benefit to them.
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