What are you using for photo storage and organization?

Hey, I’m wondering what everyone’s solution is for self hosted “cloud” storage of photos? I’ve been running a PhotoPrism server on my Synology for a while but it’s missing some features I’d like to have. While we’ve set up auto-uploading from different phones to the web server, I haven’t found an easy way to share read-only access to the pictures or specific albums. There is an admin login, but no way (that I’ve found) to create multiple users with different permissions.

So SelfHosted lemmy, what’s your solve for photo storage, sorting, and sharing?

Brochetudo,

Android’s Gallery application

Wats0ns,

Saw recently that Shadow, the cloud PC company, has now a next cloud based storage offer: shadow.tech

I’d be interested by any feedbacks if somebody gives it a try !

CCatMan,

I’ve never heard of this, but what happens if it shuts down? How is this really self hosting vs getting an generic we hosting service and storing files there ?

Wats0ns,

Oh my bad, didn’t see this was on self hosted. Then yeah, it’s a hosting service like any other one

CaptainBlagbird,
@CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world avatar

Piwigo looks nice.

I’m trying to get it to run (in docker), but I can’t get it to connect to my MariaDB

namelivia,

I installed immich thinking I could use it to access my entire pictures collection that I had stored on my hard drives only to learn it currently does not support that.

Luckyly I saw the other day there is already a PR in the official repository trying to implement that, so I may wait for a bit to Immich to have this importer.

TheCraiggers,
@TheCraiggers@lemmy.world avatar

So, what, it only lets you upload pics remotely but not view? I do not understand.

I was thinking of trying it out but the huge banner saying not to trust it for anything important makes me hesitate every time.

namelivia,

Sorry, my explanation was not very clear. Check this thread: github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/1006 this is what I was talking about

nukeworker10,

Followed that guide. Got redis and postgresql14 installed. When installing immich I get an error in the log that says "error:password authentication failed for user “postgres”. I’ve trirled every combination of changing password, no passwords whatever. It never works.

betternotbigger,

Have you tried logging in with a simple postgres client?

nukeworker10,

I’m not sure how I would do that. What sort of application would I use? Postgres doesn’t have a webui to log in through. So not sure how else I could test it.

betternotbigger,

Are you comfortable in command line? There’s psql or there’s www.pgadmin.org

keyez,

It doesn’t have that feature you linked but you can do a bulk upload if you wouldn’t mind them hosted then in 2 places on your storage.

immich.app/docs/features/bulk-upload

activator90,

I just use Samba for now. I don’t care much about viewing photos. also, I have an underpowered old server that overheats easily

imperator,
@imperator@sh.itjust.works avatar

I use samba and digikam

Trail,

Same but NFS over Btrfs.

pound_heap,

Test driving NextCloud Memories. Looks nice, works inside Nextcloud (no need to set up and maintain one more service).

Main con so far - no mobile app

ErevanDB,

Nextcloud itself does have an app, though. Don’t know if you’ll still be able to use those additions or not through it.

pound_heap,

No, you can’t

ErevanDB,

Thank you for checking! I don’t have a readily accessible server yet.

rmean,

You can “install” it while it’s open in your browser - good enough for me

pound_heap,

Yeah, that’s what I’m using too

joelfromaus,
@joelfromaus@aussie.zone avatar

I hadn’t heard of Memories before. I’ve just set up an Immich server and I’m not super impressed with it, if I can shut that down and use my pre-existing Nextcloud server instead that’d be great!

What’s the development pace been like for Memories?

pound_heap,

I can’t say I’m following all release notes, but development is active. You can take a look yourself github.com/pulsejet/memories

bjeanes,

Immich. I recently set it up after having bounced around trying a few others, such as PhotoPrism and Synology Photos. Immich is truly excellent. I’m excited to see how it develops further!

minishoemaze,

I’m a recent Immich adopter, but one thing that seems to be missing compared to Google photos is the ability to manually backup by picking and choosing individual photos. Am I missing something or can you only do “all or nothing” with folder backups?

bjeanes,

I am also missing this. AFAICT there is no way to backup all photos yet.

StuffToWrite,

This is also one of my gripes with immich atm. Sometimes I just want to pick a specific photo that I want to upload

minishoemaze,

I’m a recent Immich adopter, but one thing that seems to be missing compared to Google photos is the ability to manually backup by picking and choosing individual photos. Am I missing something or can you only do “all or nothing” with folder backups?

wolre,

Like many people here I’m also planning on moving to Immich. It frankly looks amazing and it has a TrueCharts version, so it should be relatively easy to deploy on TrueNAS Scale. I’m going to wait a little longer though since it’s still in relatively active development and there are quite a lot of breaking changes that I currently don’t feel like dealing with.

TheCraiggers,
@TheCraiggers@lemmy.world avatar

As somebody that already has an NFS share for their photos, is immich able to use my already existing photo location, or is it another one of those that requires an import process that copies them to its own storage?

wolre,

I guess it depends on what you’re looking for. You’ll probably be able to configure it to display your photos, but when it comes to more “advanced” features like creating albums, sharing photos with other users and the like, it’s understandably pretty difficult to find a system that would allow you to configure your own storage system.

TheCraiggers,
@TheCraiggers@lemmy.world avatar

Perhaps, but there are a few that do it, such as photoprisim and photostruct.

kowcop,

There is an experimental feature where you can have a read only share (mount point) and you can run a cli and import it into Immich

Monkeyclock1234,

Prism is my go to …it’s allright but I am still looking for new options. Have heard good things about Immich so might look at that

MangoPenguin,
@MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Another person using Immich.

It supports importing existing photos, so I pulled in all my old folders of stuff.

Also has multi user with album sharing and all that.

warmaster,

I’m planning my homelab, and from the research I’ve done, Immich is the best but not ready for production and it can’t use an already existing photo library. NextCloud memories is the next best alternative, and supports already existing libraries.

MangoPenguin,
@MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Immich can use existing libraries, either by importing (copying) existing files, or just by adding an existing folder of files in place.

warmaster,

Importing is another thing. But using an existing folder is exactly what I want. Is this feature new ?

MangoPenguin, (edited )
@MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

I think it’s pretty new, in the last month or so. It’s currently something you have to run manually with the CLI to do an import, but they should eventually have it added into the web interface and run automatically.

immich.app/docs/features/bulk-upload#importing-ex…

The important thing is the –import flag which adds files without copying them.

Personally I run the CLI command inside the immich-server container, here’s the full command to make life easier since this took me a bit to figure out, make sure the directory is mounted into both the immich-server and immich-microservices containers. You can mount it as :ro if you want (I did) to make sure Immich can only read the files and not change them.

immich upload --key apikeygoeshere --server http://localhost:3001 --recursive /some/path/to/existing/photos --import

warmaster,

Amazing ! Thanks for sharing!

archy,

I recently started dumping all my photos at Immich. WIth every release it becomes greater and greater. I donated to the developer to keep it going. And I need to make a script to automate the DB backup

FermatsLastAccount,

Immich is pretty great. I used to use Nextcloud, but it isn't nearly as good for photos.

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