Photo Manager docker / plugin?


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Thanks for the clarification. This may not be the best fit for me then.

 

I suspect most users want to just create a web front end to an existing on disk photo store rather than starting a new portal fresh (i would have thought).

 

Maybe there are two use cases and potentially a simpler project would suit my use case.

 

 

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Thanks for the clarification. This may not be the best fit for me then.

 

I suspect most users want to just create a web front end to an existing on disk photo store rather than starting a new portal fresh (i would have thought).

 

Maybe there are two use cases and potentially a simpler project would suit my use case.

 

 

I have a lychee container in my repo and there is a plugin for it that may do what you want.

 

https://github.com/electerious/Lychee

 

particularly the lycheesync plugin.

 

may need tweaking vis-a-vis permissions etc.. so as not to mess with your images current permissions.

 

willing to work with you on it.

 

and welcome back.

 

 

 

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Lychee is nice and easy to setup and very slick to use.

 

 

However the wording of the addon https://github.com/leplatrem/lycheesync suggests it creates a complete duplicate set of images and then thumbnails as well. Not excited to have hundreds of gigs of dupe images. Am i reading this wrong?

 

it may well do, i'm not 100% certain on their -d argument though.

 

any image viewer is going to generate thumbs, it's finding one that imports folders in situ.

 

 

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I came to this thinking it should be easy to solve the "chromeos has no cifs for gf accessing pics" problems.

 

I think I will send some time trying to find a project that is as simple as possible and not try and bend a project that complex into my basic need.

 

If i find something I will post back. ta

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I installed your Lychee docker today and I get the webUI configuration screen.  However, I get failures when attempting to create the database from the initial UI screen 'unable to create database - access denied'.  I only filled out username and password as the other options say 'optional'.  I also made sure data and uploads were set to 777 and everything in /data is nobody users.

 

Any tricks to get this working?

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I installed your Lychee docker today and I get the webUI configuration screen.  However, I get failures when attempting to create the database from the initial UI screen 'unable to create database - access denied'.  I only filled out username and password as the other options say 'optional'.  I also made sure data and uploads were set to 777 and everything in /data is nobody users.

 

Any tricks to get this working?

 

my bad documentation skill, oops.

 

you need a mysql/mariab container for this to work. if you have that then you need to create a user for lychee.

 

at the mysql prompt

 

create user lychee identified by 'lychee';

  change the 'lychee' to another password if preferred, but keep the ' ' around it.

 

then

 

grant all on *.* to lychee;

 

then use those credentials with the ip of your mysql/mariadb container

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Just had to do this the other day for lychee.

 

First exec into the MariaDB container with

 

docker exec -it MariaDB bash

 

Then get into mysql by

 

TERM=xterm mysql

 

and then you can create the user and grant permissions as sparkly noted

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So has anyone found a front-end photo manager that doesn't duplicate your images? Piwigo and Lychee both want to re-upload everything.

 

Have you tried DigiKam from aptalca's repo?

 

DigiKam seems to be more for photo editing/management. I was following along hoping for a nice interface just for browsing. Piwigo and Lychee look nice but I'm not interested in duplicating all my pics. If anyone finds any other options, please share.

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DigiKam seems similar to Lightroom where I think it is focused on photo management and editing.

 

I was looking for something more like a pretty interface for photo browsing (vs Windows explorer or such). If this is what you are looking for, here are some options I have found via googling:

 

Photofloat: http://git.zx2c4.com/PhotoFloat/about/

 

fGallery:  http://www.thregr.org/~wavexx/software/fgallery/index.html  which has a docker: https://github.com/skorokithakis/docker-fgallery

 

There may be a bunch more out there but I figured I'd share. I've never built a docker container but if I get some time I may try import the fGallery one as a baby step.

 

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Hi All

 

No reason to create a new Thread.... so 2020 what are people using for their Photo management and backup to Unraid across devices?

I have +150K old pictures from devices upload by App to my Synology server and have been trying to come up with at replacement so I can sell it!

 

Piwigo - http://piwigo.org/

25 Mio downloads! -  been playing with this for 3-4 days and it have crashed or time-out every day!

(Even when changing PHP timeout to 5 min and the Memory to 1024 MB - and the recommended mgmt. plugins)

Way to unstable and synch. is not automated and when you try to synch - then it crashes...

(I think it just corrupted the MariaDB this last time the UI disappeared and even after a reboot its dead! - good thing I have auto appdata backups!)

 

So what to use instead ? - I found the following:

 

lychee - ? (Looks like Piwigo?)  - App docker on Unraid - 10 Mio downloads! https://lychee.electerious.com/ - Author gave it to the community...

 

Photostructure - Demo available could be promising? https://photostructure.com/server/photostructure-for-docker-compose/ - Not as unraid docker

 

Photoprism - https://docs.photoprism.org/ (App docker on Unraid!) 2,5 Mio downloads ???

 

PhotoShow - App docker on Unraid 5 Mio downloads (Development looks dead!)

 

DigiKam - https://www.digikam.org/ not a lot of people using this only 100K download from our App community - looks more like a editor?

 

koken - http://koken.me/ - sold and not supported anymore (Dead)

 

Does anyone have other candidates or suggestions on what to use on ones Unraid server

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On 11/10/2020 at 12:05 PM, casperse said:

Hi All

 

No reason to create a new Thread.... so 2020 what are people using for their Photo management and backup to Unraid across devices?

I have +150K old pictures from devices upload by App to my Synology server and have been trying to come up with at replacement so I can sell it!

 

Piwigo - http://piwigo.org/

25 Mio downloads! -  been playing with this for 3-4 days and it have crashed or time-out every day!

(Even when changing PHP timeout to 5 min and the Memory to 1024 MB - and the recommended mgmt. plugins)

Way to unstable and synch. is not automated and when you try to synch - then it crashes...

(I think it just corrupted the MariaDB this last time the UI disappeared and even after a reboot its dead! - good thing I have auto appdata backups!)

 

So what to use instead ? - I found the following:

 

lychee - ? (Looks like Piwigo?)  - App docker on Unraid - 10 Mio downloads! https://lychee.electerious.com/ - Author gave it to the community...

 

Photostructure - Demo available could be promising? https://photostructure.com/server/photostructure-for-docker-compose/ - Not as unraid docker

 

Photoprism - https://docs.photoprism.org/ (App docker on Unraid!) 2,5 Mio downloads ???

 

PhotoShow - App docker on Unraid 5 Mio downloads (Development looks dead!)

 

DigiKam - https://www.digikam.org/ not a lot of people using this only 100K download from our App community - looks more like a editor?

 

koken - http://koken.me/ - sold and not supported anymore (Dead)

 

Does anyone have other candidates or suggestions on what to use on ones Unraid server

This is THE hole in my home setup.  Nothing really does what I want.  I use the nextcloud app to sync my devices and that works well enough but is not good enough for the presentation part.

I want this:

  • Don't copy the data, use a path to the server.  A DB for metadata is fine but don't put 2TB of data in the DB
  • sync with changes in the photo path
  • picture AND video support
  • user and group management
  • Sharable tags between users or album from a tag or a way to have an album other than a directory
  • maybe face recognition

I agree with your list, I tried them all except Photostructure and koken nothing is close and nothing is stable with tens of thousands of files.  Photoprism looks promising but without user management it's a deal breaker.  I think the appdata directory was pretty big too.

 

Looks like I need to test photostructure now...

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3 hours ago, Gog said:

I think the appdata directory was pretty big too.

Photoprism: You can always set the path where you save your photo's to another directory or even mount another directory in the docker template and then save the photos there... ;)

But I recommend using MariaDB or any MySQL database instead of the builtin database if you got a big Photo/Video library.

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On 11/12/2020 at 11:35 AM, spants said:

I've just published a Photostructure template for you to try... @Gog @casperse

Thanks, @spants! I've been really surprised by how many of my beta users are on Unraid (!)

 

For anyone else trying it out, please know that PhotoStructure is a young product, and I've got an embarrassingly long to-do list, but if your library is as messy as mine was, nothing else has better deduplication, and the "samples" UI is novel as well. Also, I'm providing the beta for free in exchange for your feedback.

 

If y'all find anything odd or confusing or buggy, please send me an email and I'll get on it.

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On 11/12/2020 at 8:35 PM, spants said:

I've just published a Photostructure template for you to try... @Gog @casperse

Thanks @spants I installed it right after your post and it has been running ever since... +130-150.000 pgoto+video files it does take a lot of my CPU resources

But it hasn't crashed like Piwigo did again and again - The only problem sofar is the lack of user profiles (Family members that shouldn't see all pictures or only have read access (Don't know if Photostructure have any edit functions - so far it has just been updating my library - What DB does it use? (MariaDB has been my go to for all of my tests so-far) - I have sofar solved my APP needs by using PhotoSync + WEBDAV access from NextCloud that is really brilliant and rock solid - did a transfer from my phone +7000 files to Photostructure and the upload renames and sort all my files in my own structure /Photos/Year/Year-month/Date-Time-Number.ext it also do my Albums from my phones keeping them in the Album folder..

@mrm When its done loading I will test - looks very promising! Thanks for sharing this with all of us 

 

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@mrm The program completed without errors like a Champ! Sofar its working great. and it did go through 180K files 🙂

One thing because everyone use mobile phones as cameras the model library gets very big and for video this is a problem

 

Example: Because many phones use the "moment" video when taking a photo, you get A LOT of videos in the filter that really isn't videos

and I have not found any way to filter them out? (Maybee a min size to be registered as a video file?)

Or some HEIC ignore (I can't be the only one with this problem) and of cause some multiple user profile access setup for the family

 

Again thanks for letting us test your software! 

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