I have been using immich. It supports user accounts and album sharing. And recent updates on the machine learning part have made it a even more potent replacement of Google Photos imo.
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This looks promising. Thanks for sharing!
Also using Immich, can recommend it.
There are still some rough areas though. For example its not possible to further share/download photos sent to you in a shared album. And the ios app is a bit janky when swiping through photos. No slideshow mode either.
Overall very usable though and getting updated constantly.
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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
Nextcloud itself does have an app, though. Don't know if you'll still be able to use those additions or not through it.
You can "install" it while it's open in your browser - good enough for me
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Have you looked at NextCloud? I have an instance running on an RPi that fits my needs (storage without sharing outside the home firewall). For anything that needs sharing, I just copy those images to an old Dropbox that I've kept and share from there.
Nextcloud on it's own can't read images EXIF data so it can't sort them by date. I've tried Memories addon and it seems to work well, except for transcoding movies.
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Nextcloud works well for general files. Immich is the way to go specifically for photo storing. It's got a whole lot of added features.
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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!
Yeah, seems like Immich is kind if taking over. It really is an excellent one stop solution for automated multi-user backup. Ive been using it for a few months and its solid.
The other option that I really like is a combination of software: Nextcloud + Les Pas. Nextcloud is the server where images are stored in a flat folder system, and Les Pas is an android photo album app that organizes and manages the albums. Its super nice and has some really advanced organization features. Worth checking out if you want to use nextcloud as the storage server.
I've been using Photoprism. Single-user is fine for me. I see lots of people switching to immich, but haven't checked it out myself.
Photoprism supports sharing albums via link to people who don't have accounts. Mine is remotely accessible using Tailscale. I would like to set up proper remote access via DNS, but haven't made that leap yet, I'm too nervous about opening ports up.
I'm happy with photoprism too. I paid for the photosync plugins.
I don't love the free-mium model, but you can edit your docker config to unlock it I hear.
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Haven't looked into sharing read only access, but you can look into this list
https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#photo-and-video-galleries
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?
This is also one of my gripes with immich atm. Sometimes I just want to pick a specific photo that I want to upload
I am also missing this. AFAICT there is no way to backup all photos yet.
Immich is pretty great. I used to use Nextcloud, but it isn't nearly as good for photos.
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
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.
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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.
I sync them to out local fileserver using syncthing and recently started using immich (since it supports custom libraries now)
Photoprism is one user only, maybe some day they wil implement multi user. You can donate to give them an incentive to work more on it. For me it is good enough.
They do support multiple users, but they gated the feature behind a subscription.
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I just use a folder of photos and then use digiKam to manage them. But it's just me, I don't need to share photos with anyone else. I like digiKam but it doesn't play great with concurrent users out of the box. I think there's a way to use a shared database though.
Currently just using Synology photos but with an eye on immich, as others have mentioned and plan to switch now that it has facial and object recognition. At this point it can do everything I want and has the benefit of being open source.
You have a Synology and Synology photos will do the features you mentioned (multiple users, different permissions). While I wouldn't recommend it now over Immich I'm curious why you went with photoprism initially?
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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.
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.
Sorry, my explanation was not very clear. Check this thread: https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/1006 this is what I was talking about
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.
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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.
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
Synology Moments, which is their older version of their photo app. I still use the older version because it supports object recognition. I just wish it had a map view.
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I’m using the PhotoSync app to backup to Dropbox and to my local HDD from multiple phones and tablets. Seems to work like a charm. Better than the shitty Dropbox iOS photos backup for sure.
immich!
Piwigo looks nice.
I'm trying to get it to run (in docker), but I can't get it to connect to my MariaDB
I just use Samba for now. I don't care much about viewing photos. also, I have an underpowered old server that overheats easily
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