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?
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.
Immich can use existing libraries, either by importing (copying) existing files, or just by adding an existing folder of files in place.
Importing is another thing. But using an existing folder is exactly what I want. Is this feature new ?
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.
https://immich.app/docs/features/bulk-upload#importing-existing-libraries
The important thing is the
--importflag which adds files without copying them.Personally I run the CLI command inside the
immich-servercontainer, 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 theimmich-serverandimmich-microservicescontainers. You can mount it as:roif 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 --importAmazing ! Thanks for sharing!
A PR was opened last week to add the biggest first element of external library support. Hopefully in the relatively near future it’ll be merged. I’ll be giving it a shot when it merges.
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
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’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.
Android’s Gallery application
Immich is pretty great. I used to use Nextcloud, but it isn’t nearly as good for photos.
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 !
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 ?
Oh my bad, didn’t see this was on self hosted. Then yeah, it’s a hosting service like any other one
Piwigo looks nice.
I’m trying to get it to run (in docker), but I can’t get it to connect to my MariaDB
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 works well for general files. Immich is the way to go specifically for photo storing. It’s got a whole lot of added features.
I hadn’t heard of Immich. I’ll take a look. Thanks!
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.
Good to know, thanks. I generally sort by hand if they need sorting, but using EXIF would be a nice time saver.
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.
Really can’t find a good guide on how to host this on unraid. Any tips?
The docker compose file should work fine I’d imagine? IIRC Unraid supports docker.
Yes, but the Readme says it requires postgresql14 or 15 external. I don’t see how to set that up. I usually go through the app store that is included in unraid. Usually there are good guides but I don’t see one for this.
Their docker compose file has postgres in it: https://immich.app/docs/install/docker-compose
If unraid doesn’t support docker compose for some crazy reason, you should be able to bypass the webUI of unraid and just run docker compose files directly via CLI.
Actually ignore my other comment, they have an unraid guide for docker compose: https://immich.app/docs/install/unraid
This looks promising. Thanks for sharing!
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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.
immich!
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
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?
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.
No, you can’t
Thank you for checking! I don’t have a readily accessible server yet.
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?
You can “install” it while it’s open in your browser - good enough for me
Yeah, that’s what I’m using too
