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I do like the idea, and I've love to move from Google Photo into something... now Google. However, Google Photos covers an aspect that this does not: it syncs
by WhyNotHugo 7y ago
I do like the idea, and I've love to move from Google Photo into something... now Google.
However, Google Photos covers an aspect that this does not: it syncs the photos _off_ my phone into an online stream.
I actually use Google Photos because it's the only way of getting photos off your phone. The only other mechanism is iCloud, but if you don't have a Mac, there's no way to read from it.
- kossae 7y agoWhile the interface isn't great, icloud.com _does_ allow you to view and download your photos without a Mac. I really do wish they would put more resources into updating their web UI, though.
- HenryBemis 7y agoI now use Huawei/Android and before that I was on iPhone/iOS. In both cases I am using Dropbox as the means move photos to my hard disk. I upload all photos I want to Dropbox. Dropbox renames the images from "Image1" to Image-YYYY-MM-DD-HH-MM-SS.jpg. I then download the lot as one big zip file, expand it on my backup disk and that is sucked to my cloud backup. I do this every month, it is a manual process but it's not an overkill. This way I save time on renaming the files.
- wwn_se 7y agonextCloud and similar have the sync photo functionality and could probably be glued together with this without to much effort. That said I also use Google Photo even though i have a servers and stuff for other personal uses.
- reacharavindh 7y agoI use https://www.photosync-app.com/home.html https://www.photosync-app.com/home.html On my phone and transfer photos when on home wifi AND phone being charged to my NAS. I have a private static photo gallery generated from my nas. For static gallery generation, I use a project called sitelen-mute. https://github.com/kensanata/sitelen-mute https://github.com/kensanata/sitelen-mute No affiliation with either tools.
- jakearmitage 7y agoWhich NAS do you use?
- reacharavindh 7y agoA desktop PC with a bunch of SATA disks and ZFS. Nothing fancy, but works great and is super stable. My entire digital footprint is just 2 TiB, so the NAS has my back covered for several years now, and probably will for a few more years.
- throwanem 7y agoNot OP, but I've had excellent luck with a Synology DS418 containing a RAID-1 of four 8TB disks I peeled out of USB enclosures bought absurdly cheap last Black Friday. Simple, fast, and compatible; the drawback is that it's expensive compared to similar 4-bay SOHO offerings, but IMO it's worth the premium.
- WhyNotHugo 7y agoI've been reading about Synology, but I can't figure out the encryption. Does the encryption key also live in the NAS as well? Is it like, sitting there?
- throwanem 7y agoI haven't used it, so I've no idea.
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- dreamcompiler 7y agoFWIW, Dropbox can automatically pull photos off your phone as you take them. I like it better because less Google in my life is good.
- rhacker 7y agoI think the ultimate would be for someone to develop an app that works with one (or multiple?) of these various photo apps so that everyone else can also get the totally seamless experience.
- dawnerd 7y agoPlex can also auto upload photos to a server you own.
- ianhowson 7y agoI really really want this to work, but it doesn't, at least on iPhones. The sync only seems to work while the app is open, it uploads JPEG instead of HEIC, and videos aren't uploaded at all. I would be happy to pay money to make this work properly. In the meantime, I pay extra for Google Photos (for display/search/tagging) and iCloud (for reliable auto backup) and need to find a way to automatically download the iCloud things to my Plex/NAS machine.
- dawnerd 7y agoYeah it definitely needs work. I primarily use it as a backup. Google photos is my primary because of their unlimited drive data. Although now that photos don’t show up in google drive I’m going to have to figure something else out.
- ianhowson 7y agoYou reminded me. GPhotos is stripping the GPS data from the photos, which is why I started using iCloud. I just want to take my data from here... and put it there... and not have it trashed along the way. I will pay money for this service.