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Re: LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

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Post by jdright »

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

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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).

So, my memory failed me. The one which I couldn't make work was Photonix not PhotoPrism. It is still indexing my pictures and it kinda succeeded identifying some things (and others with lots of errors, eg. Dog as Hummingbird!). I'll wait it finish to confirm, but I feel already the need of two things: - fix tags & retrain? - face tags to identify and search for persons

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Post by derneuere »

technojunkie wrote: post #25
sammorrowdrums wrote: post #9

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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.

Wow, I didn't know Github had that feature, thanks for the link! Maybe the two repo authors can come together and sync the projects since both are so closely related. Nonetheless, I hope there will be more information via a changelog or an outline with differences and intentions. It's one of the more impressive projects I've seen to replace Google Photos so I hope there's a lot of transparency!

Hey, here is a dev from LibrePhotos. The original project is abandoned and pull request do not get merge anymore. That's why we started with a new fork.

Re: LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

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Post by derneuere »

JD557 wrote: post #59

Looking at this project and some of the alternatives provided, they seem to be quite memory hungry. I assume this is related to the ML model. Is there any way to run this (or one fo the alternatives) in a "Lite" mode without any ML? I see that Photoprism has a ton of flags, but it's not obvious how those affect memory usage.

We are not sure why it needs that much RAM. We know that it has something to do, with the ML models. I am pretty sure we can optimize it in the future.

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Post by dsego »

Octopuz wrote: post #119
dsego wrote: post #100

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A bit off-topic, but I've just bought a small 2-bay synology NAS and I'm wondering if I should go ext4 or btrfs for my family photos/videos. I like the idea of data safety features like checksums & scrubbing, but ext4 seems more robust & tested. Which did you go with?

btrfs works fine in Synology's implementation. Please keep in mind that RAID is not a backup. You can backup to a cloud service or to a friend's house with its own Synology.

Thanks, I was hoping it would. I understand that raid is not backup. I have two external drives and will probably also use a cloud service for off-site. I was also considering htl blurays for archives, but we'll see. The NAS will become the central storage hub so we don't keep files scattered around on family laptops and smartphones.

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Post by iforgotpassword »

libeclipse wrote: post #111
iforgotpassword wrote: post #22

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It's self hosted, so both parts are up to you.

Not necessarily. Is unencrypted data even sent to the server? That's controlled at the application layer. Of course you could setup TLS and FDE but this doesn't guarantee that your data will be safe.

Huh? It's a web app. If you set up https, no data is ever sent to the server unencrypted.

Likewise setting up FDE means your data is encrypted on the server.

> but this doesn't guarantee that your data will be safe

I don't get what you're trying to get at here. If you're taking about bugs compromising the encryption then I guess this applies to practically every software out there making this a moot discussion.

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Post by Nsida3 »

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/

There is another interesting project. It's more of a lightweight and simple photo gallery. - https://photoview.github.io - https://github.com/photoview/photoview

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Post by unityByFreedom »

alisonkisk wrote: post #97
oarsinsync wrote: post #92

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Gotcha. Thanks for the explanation! I think that's a terrible idea, disregarding the origins and removing an element of credit and attribution to the original authors. Be proud of where you came from, don't try to hide it.

The problem is that the original is defunct but "fork" on GitHub assumes that the fork is going to merge changes upstream. Credit goes in the credits file, not polluting every interaction with the project.

What pollution? It's just a link to the project's origin.

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Post by ddalex »

kilroy123 wrote: post #60
ddalex wrote: post #16

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My personal photo archive is 100k+ I'll test this out and report back.

I would love to hear your update. I have 80k+ and also need a solution for many pictures.

The problem with this thing is that it doesn't work. So having played with this for several hours today

* installation was ok, but I had to reach out to the discord channel to be able to configure it properly * started to index the photos; at 16480 photos (After about 1h) it stopped progressing with no error message * for the photos that are listed as indexed, when going to the gallery, there are no thumbnails * it appears that there is no metadata being indexed for those photos either

In short, this is not ready for prime time yet

I currently run PhotoStructure what works ok with indexing, but has other gaps (no tagging, face recognition, etc..)

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Post by mceachen »

ddalex wrote: post #128
kilroy123 wrote: post #60

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I would love to hear your update. I have 80k+ and also need a solution for many pictures.

The problem with this thing is that it doesn't work. So having played with this for several hours today * installation was ok, but I had to reach out to the discord channel to be able to configure it properly * started to index the photos; at 16480 photos (After about 1h) it stopped progressing with no error message * for the photos that are listed as indexed, when going to the gallery, there are no thumbnails * it a…

The next release (alpha build will drop in a week or two) will include keyword, album, and person tag imports from Google Takeouts, Lightroom, Picasa, and digiKam. See: https://photostructure.com/about/2020-release-notes/#vnext

Local face recognition, if it doesn't make it into this release, will be in the following release: most of the detection, aggregation, and backend storage is already implemented in my feature branch.

Please vote for features you want on the new forum! https://forum.photostructure.com/c/feature-requests/7/l/late...

Re: LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

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Post by ddalex »

mceachen wrote: post #129
ddalex wrote: post #128

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The problem with this thing is that it doesn't work. So having played with this for several hours today * installation was ok, but I had to reach out to the discord channel to be able to configure it properly * started to index the photos; at 16480 photos (After about 1h) it stopped progressing with no error message * for the photos that are listed as indexed, when going to the gallery, there are no thumbnails * it a…

The next release (alpha build will drop in a week or two) will include keyword, album, and person tag imports from Google Takeouts, Lightroom, Picasa, and digiKam. See: https://photostructure.com/about/2020-release-notes/#vnext Local face recognition, if it doesn't make it into this release, will be in the following release: most of the detection, aggregation, and backend storage is already implemented in my feature…

Thanks for pointing these out!

What I'm looking for is Lightroom-album style tagging (keyword and star-rating) that I can apply to photos manually - I dont' have my archive tagged in anywhere, and I need to do that somewhere

I'm thinking about biting the bullet and import everything in Lightroom just to get tagging :(

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