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OwnCloud / NextCloud? I haven't used either but would be interested to hear from any folks who have.

by llampx 6y ago

caymanjim 6y ago
Nextcloud works well. The web-based gallery UI isn't great, and the phone UI isn't great, but if you're looking for a way to self-host everything, share with family, etc. it's a good solution. You can always run a better self-hosted gallery on the web side, and mount the Nextcloud storage right into it. Nextcloud's Android client, while minimalist, has some surprising and useful features. It integrates well with the rest of Android, so you can browse and select photos from Nextcloud to e.g. upload to Facebook, and most-surprisingly, you can have your phone automatically upload photos and videos to Nextcloud when you take them, so that you don't have to do anything manually. Overall, Nextcloud is surprisingly good for photos.
alias_neo 6y ago
I use Nextcloud, run it on a dedicated server at home running FreeBSD. My wife and I use it exclusively to auto-backup our mobile photos. With that in mind, I'd say that yes it works, but is it the right tool? Not really. First, we don't use the web stuff at all, the app isn't great when it comes to choosing what, how and to which folders things should be synced. It is however useful that I can share my auto-upload folder with my wife's account so she can print the photos I take of our baby daughter, she's almost exclusively the subject of our mobile photographs these days. Finally, you're almost guaranteed to break it every few updates. I've spent several evening over the past couple of years recovering from updates. Much of this is likely down to my lack of knowledge of FreeBSD, but honestly, it shouldn't be breaking in the first place. I began writing something in something in Golang, that would use microservices to read out exit data, generate thumbnails and provide APIs to give family members custom photo frames we could push photos to. Unfortunately I haven't had the motivation to continue working on it. I'll keep looking for something else with good Android apps, preferably written in Golang so it's lean and easy to update that'll do the backup/sharing.

OwnCloud / NextCloud? I haven't used either but would be interested to hear from any folks who have.

by llampx 6y ago

OwnCloud / NextCloud? I haven't used either but would be interested to hear from any folks who have.

Nextcloud works well. The web-based gallery UI isn't great, and the phone UI isn't great, but if you're looking for a way to self-host everything, share with family, etc. it's a good solution. You can always run a better self-hosted gallery on the web side, and mount the Nextcloud storage right into it. Nextcloud's Android client, while minimalist, has some surprising and useful features. It integrates well with the rest of Android, so you can browse and select photos from Nextcloud to e.g. upload to Facebook, and most-surprisingly, you can have your phone automatically upload photos and videos to Nextcloud when you take them, so that you don't have to do anything manually. Overall, Nextcloud is surprisingly good for photos.

alias_neo 6y ago

I use Nextcloud, run it on a dedicated server at home running FreeBSD. My wife and I use it exclusively to auto-backup our mobile photos. With that in mind, I'd say that yes it works, but is it the right tool? Not really. First, we don't use the web stuff at all, the app isn't great when it comes to choosing what, how and to which folders things should be synced. It is however useful that I can share my auto-upload folder with my wife's account so she can print the photos I take of our baby daughter, she's almost exclusively the subject of our mobile photographs these days. Finally, you're almost guaranteed to break it every few updates. I've spent several evening over the past couple of years recovering from updates. Much of this is likely down to my lack of knowledge of FreeBSD, but honestly, it shouldn't be breaking in the first place. I began writing something in something in Golang, that would use microservices to read out exit data, generate thumbnails and provide APIs to give family members custom photo frames we could push photos to. Unfortunately I haven't had the motivation to continue working on it. I'll keep looking for something else with good Android apps, preferably written in Golang so it's lean and easy to update that'll do the backup/sharing.