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I am looking for a solution like this, can folks with experience comment on their experience with this(LibrePhotos) NextCloud or alternatives. Aspects that I t

I am looking for a solution like this, can folks with experience comment on their experience with this(LibrePhotos) NextCloud or alternatives. Aspects that I think are important include the community of maintainers in addition to the current state of functionality

edoceo 6y ago
I'm currently working to use more NextCloud. My prime objectives are for notes/b9kmark keeping and photos/media. So far the setup was pretty easy on my VM but I kicked the tires with their VM image first. And so far the Android app is doing mostly OK. There is a lot to get into. And extensions out the wazoo. I've not had to work with any community (yet) cause so far, it's just work - or there is some config I need to tweak (docs are great!) With their VM and docker images tho, super easy to kick tires.
HomeDeLaPot 6y ago
I've used Nextcloud. Auto-upload from your phone is nice, but I haven't found a way to share arbitrary groups of photos except by copying them into a folder and sharing the folder. Also, thumbnail generation is slow and I haven't put in the time to try to speed it up. I haven't used PhotoPrism, but wanted to toss it out there as an alternative.
- hkt 6y ago
  https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/previewgenerator https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/previewgenerator This builds the thumbnails in the background. I think it used to get triggered on upload but says it needs a cronjob now. Works OK on a folder of 40GB of photos. What I still find irritating about photos in nextcloud is I keep mine in high resolution but nextcloud won't downscale them to fit the viewing device screen, so I use 20mb a photo with all the UX impairment one might imagine when actually a few kB would do. It'd be nice if it cached light, fullscreen versions and offered a "view in full resolution" button.
  - ekianjo 6y ago
    > fullscreen versions and offered a "view in full resolution" button. Yes, I have no idea what they don't do this. This makes the gallery barely usable.
    - hkt 6y ago
      Yes, agreed. I'm going to draw their attention to this thread.
  - olliebennett 6y ago
    PhotoPrism (https://photoprism.app/ https://photoprism.app/) generates a few different preview image ('thumbnail') sizes to support efficient use in different situations More info: https://docs.photoprism.org/user-guide/settings/advanced/#images https://docs.photoprism.org/user-guide/settings/advanced/#im...
    - elliotpage 6y ago
      I have just about finished setting this up on my own home lab- the documentation isn't as comprehensive as I would like but it has ingested my 52GB of photos and is serving them up nicely!
ohthehugemanate 6y ago
I love my home nextcloud instance. Came for the Dropbox replacement, stayed for solid apps on android/IOS, Notes, 360 image viewer, good sharing, face ID, and extension ecosystem. I back up to Azure Blob, but there's nothing quite like having 10TB available on all your devices on a gigabit line at home. Also I really notice the absence of the creeping sense of unease I had when keeping all my everything on Google. Maintenance has been zero, aside from when I want to add functionality. My only feature gripe is that gPhotos has a wonderful "archive photos" feature to delete local copies of media already uploaded. You can still see uploaded photos (thumbnails stay local) and any interaction with them stays "as if local", there's just a delay while it downloads a temporary copy. I wish nextcloud had this capability.
Youden 6y ago
For "giant pile of photos I can't be bothered sorting" scenarios (e.g. phone backups), I like Photoprism [0], which is fairly similar to this but seemed more complete last time I tried it out. Photoprism is also somewhat unique in that it uses Darktable to process RAW photos, so if you use Darktable and have it write XMP sidecars, Photoprism will be able to process the adjustments. For more curated collections, I prefer Piwigo, as it has a mode where it converts a directory tree into an album tree. It also has pretty good sharing features. Photoprism on the other hand is horrible for pre-curated photos. [0]: https://photoprism.org/ https://photoprism.org/ [1]: https://piwigo.org/ https://piwigo.org/
arendtio 6y ago
I use Nextcloud for many years now and for many different use-cases, but photos is not part of it. Mostly because my Nextcloud runs on a SSD and my photos are too many. In addition, I feel like the Nextcloud performance and feature set would not be able to deliver a good user-experience. So if we are talking a just about a few hundred MB of photos, you are probably fine, but for anything larger I would recommend to consider one of the more specialized projects.
- Can_Not 6y ago
  Any recommendation for personal photo gallery backed by S3 compatible API?

edoceo 6y ago

I'm currently working to use more NextCloud. My prime objectives are for notes/b9kmark keeping and photos/media. So far the setup was pretty easy on my VM but I kicked the tires with their VM image first. And so far the Android app is doing mostly OK. There is a lot to get into. And extensions out the wazoo. I've not had to work with any community (yet) cause so far, it's just work - or there is some config I need to tweak (docs are great!) With their VM and docker images tho, super easy to kick tires.

HomeDeLaPot 6y ago

I've used Nextcloud. Auto-upload from your phone is nice, but I haven't found a way to share arbitrary groups of photos except by copying them into a folder and sharing the folder. Also, thumbnail generation is slow and I haven't put in the time to try to speed it up. I haven't used PhotoPrism, but wanted to toss it out there as an alternative.

hkt 6y ago
https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/previewgenerator https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/previewgenerator This builds the thumbnails in the background. I think it used to get triggered on upload but says it needs a cronjob now. Works OK on a folder of 40GB of photos. What I still find irritating about photos in nextcloud is I keep mine in high resolution but nextcloud won't downscale them to fit the viewing device screen, so I use 20mb a photo with all the UX impairment one might imagine when actually a few kB would do. It'd be nice if it cached light, fullscreen versions and offered a "view in full resolution" button.
- ekianjo 6y ago
  > fullscreen versions and offered a "view in full resolution" button. Yes, I have no idea what they don't do this. This makes the gallery barely usable.
  - hkt 6y ago
    Yes, agreed. I'm going to draw their attention to this thread.
- olliebennett 6y ago
  PhotoPrism (https://photoprism.app/ https://photoprism.app/) generates a few different preview image ('thumbnail') sizes to support efficient use in different situations More info: https://docs.photoprism.org/user-guide/settings/advanced/#images https://docs.photoprism.org/user-guide/settings/advanced/#im...
  - elliotpage 6y ago
    I have just about finished setting this up on my own home lab- the documentation isn't as comprehensive as I would like but it has ingested my 52GB of photos and is serving them up nicely!

ohthehugemanate 6y ago

I love my home nextcloud instance. Came for the Dropbox replacement, stayed for solid apps on android/IOS, Notes, 360 image viewer, good sharing, face ID, and extension ecosystem. I back up to Azure Blob, but there's nothing quite like having 10TB available on all your devices on a gigabit line at home. Also I really notice the absence of the creeping sense of unease I had when keeping all my everything on Google. Maintenance has been zero, aside from when I want to add functionality. My only feature gripe is that gPhotos has a wonderful "archive photos" feature to delete local copies of media already uploaded. You can still see uploaded photos (thumbnails stay local) and any interaction with them stays "as if local", there's just a delay while it downloads a temporary copy. I wish nextcloud had this capability.

Youden 6y ago

For "giant pile of photos I can't be bothered sorting" scenarios (e.g. phone backups), I like Photoprism [0], which is fairly similar to this but seemed more complete last time I tried it out. Photoprism is also somewhat unique in that it uses Darktable to process RAW photos, so if you use Darktable and have it write XMP sidecars, Photoprism will be able to process the adjustments. For more curated collections, I prefer Piwigo, as it has a mode where it converts a directory tree into an album tree. It also has pretty good sharing features. Photoprism on the other hand is horrible for pre-curated photos. [0]: https://photoprism.org/ https://photoprism.org/ [1]: https://piwigo.org/ https://piwigo.org/

arendtio 6y ago

I use Nextcloud for many years now and for many different use-cases, but photos is not part of it. Mostly because my Nextcloud runs on a SSD and my photos are too many. In addition, I feel like the Nextcloud performance and feature set would not be able to deliver a good user-experience. So if we are talking a just about a few hundred MB of photos, you are probably fine, but for anything larger I would recommend to consider one of the more specialized projects.

Can_Not 6y ago
Any recommendation for personal photo gallery backed by S3 compatible API?