YCycuser2·Nov 18, 2022
Home Gallery[1] for my photo collection. It has (local) face and object detection.
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[1]https://github.com/xemle/home-gallery
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home-gallery
Self-hosted open-source web gallery to view your photos and videos featuring mobile-friendly, tagging and AI powered image discovery
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Self-hosted open-source web gallery to view your photos and videos featuring mobile-friendly, tagging and AI powered image discovery
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2 sourcesI haven't tried PhotoPrism, but I'll give it a whirl. In my case, I'm looking for the best way to enable multiple family members to upload, tag, and effectively browse tens of thousands of photographs as we all continue digitizing family albums.
I'm currently using HomeGallery[0] behind Authelia[1] for authentication to view so many images effectively. For uploading, I'd been using Nextcloud, but it began to lag noticeably after a few thousand photos. I switched to FileRun[2] with symlink'd photo directories and a user for each family.
With HomeGallery, I get the desired performance on mobile devices with de-duplication and tagging. My instance detects objects fine, but I owe it troubleshooting time to figure out face recognition. The "similar images" feature can be fun with so many photos. A nice tagging modal on keybind per image would
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be a nice-to-have.
Using FileRun for uploads works fine, but I also needed a continuous cron job for docker exec to generate any missing thumbnails.
[0] https://github.com/xemle/home-gallery (or https://home-gallery.org/)
[1] https://github.com/authelia/authelia (or https://www.authelia.com/)
[2] https://filerun.com/