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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?

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[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] gadgetzombie@feddit.nl 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fwiw I read that object recognition is coming back with 7.2

There's a DSM docker that enables the use of Synology Photos without having to buy a Diskstation as well if others are scrolling through this

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

There's a DSM docker that enables the use of Synology Photos without having to buy a Diskstation as well if others are scrolling through this

Woah! I'll need to check that out!

[–] Wats0ns@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 !

[–] CCatMan@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 ?

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[–] traches@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I'm currently on photoprism like you, but I am looking to switch to immich.

I solved the sharing problem by having a family-only instance locally (accessible via tailscale), connected via WebDAV to a public instance on a cheap VPS (which I also use for other things). We have to share twice, but I don't have any holes in my firewall. Currently I don't believe immich can do something like this, but I'd love to be proven wrong

[–] minishoemaze@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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?

[–] umbraroze@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I have a Zyxel NAS server that just offers a SMB share. I'm just dumping my photos there under YYYY/MM/DD scheme, and converting all of my Nikon NEF files to DNG. (For importing photos to the NAS and generating backups, I have a PowerShell script and a PowerAutomate action. Also mild usage of Dropbox to transfer files from my cellphone.)

For actual management of photos, I use ACDSee Photo Studio Professional, and it just writes all tag information to the files themselves, so I can basically use any other software for photo management. For actual photo editing, I use DXO PhotoLab and Affinity Photo most of the time.

[–] freeman@lemmy.pub 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A synology NAS and dsphoto. Its a mess.

I have considered photprism, never set it up though (other things got in the way).

[–] gladoz@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There is also Synology photos and I like it but see a lot of people recommending immich, someone that has used both know if there is notable difference or benefits?

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[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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.

[–] alex@agora.nop.chat 1 points 1 year ago

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.

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[–] TheInsane42@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Pretty simple here, directory with my phpto's, which I renamed to show the subject, date and an id for that day. Simple script to show the images when on a website, manual viewing from disk when archived.

I pull them off the phone via a cable and adb pull command. All photo's are read only for my wife. (And by default for all when on the website)

No need to use software when you can write some small scripts, devise an ordering system and run Linux. ;)

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[–] Brochetudo@feddit.de -3 points 1 year ago

Android's Gallery application

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