homeserver vs Lychee

homeserver

Backend and frontend for my home server (by nicbou)

Lychee

A great looking and easy-to-use photo-management-system you can run on your server, to manage and share photos. (by electerious)

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lychee.electerious.com

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homeserver		Lychee
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2	Mentions	19
42	Stars	6,316
-	Growth	-
8.3	Activity	0.0
16 days ago	Latest Commit	over 2 years ago
JavaScript	Language	PHP
-	License	MIT License

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homeserver

Posts with mentions or reviews of homeserver. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-04.

What Are Your Most Used Self Hosted Applications?
50 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 May 2022

My own timeline thing.
It hosts all of my data plus my personal diary. I update it at least once a day. My photos, backups and geolocation are automatically uploaded to it.
https://github.com/nicbou/timeline
My home server gets a lot of use too. It's mostly my own code, plus Transmission.
https://github.com/nicbou/homeserver
I also have a few lines of code that take my browser's search queries and routes them according to keywords. Browsers do this natively now, but old habits die hard. Every search query goes through it.
Create animated GIF and WebP from videos using FFmpeg
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Feb 2021

Perhaps it's time to start a collection of ffmpeg commands for every situation. I feel like I have to look at my old projects every time I need to use it. It took me a lot of trial and error to write an all-purpose ffmpeg command.
This is how I convert videos to 720p web-playable videos (if it's not already web-playable):
https://github.com/nicbou/homeserver/blob/22c0a160f9df5f4c34...
This is how I create hover previews like on modern streaming sites:
https://github.com/nicbou/timeline/blob/9d9340930ed0213dffdd...

Lychee

Posts with mentions or reviews of Lychee. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-16.

Need advice about running a photo server for family
11 projects | /r/selfhosted | 16 Apr 2023
Yet another "photo gallery/management" question
2 projects | /r/selfhosted | 1 Nov 2022

Hi there! Check out lychee! Its simple, supports dropbox, and is really easy to setup. If your having problems, try our product easypanel. We got a template to get it setup for you, in a matter of seconds. If you have any questions, feel free to PM me or reply here.
Bilder mit Familie sicher teilen
3 projects | /r/Eltern | 3 Aug 2022
YouTube alternatives to share home videos with friends family
2 projects | /r/selfhosted | 25 Jul 2022
What Are Your Most Used Self Hosted Applications?
50 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 May 2022
Need application to display large photo archive for public sharing
1 project | /r/AskPhotography | 10 Mar 2022

Can check out options like lychee or various alternatives.
Google photos alternative
4 projects | /r/homelab | 2 Nov 2021

PhotoPrism is a good option something you've mentioned above in your OP, along with NextCloud Photos (I've never used this). Piwigo, Lychee, and of course Synology Photos is pretty popular.
Selfhosted (docker, etc) site/blog/gallery for a painter?
1 project | /r/selfhosted | 12 Oct 2021

You might be able to repurpose a photo gallery like lychee or photoprism?
Simple media server with thumbs
2 projects | /r/selfhosted | 26 Sep 2021

https://lychee.electerious.com/ seems to be working well for me
Synology Photos is utter bullcrap
6 projects | /r/synology | 11 Aug 2021

Lychee

What are some alternatives?

When comparing homeserver and Lychee you can also consider the following projects:

Ansible-NAS - Build a full-featured home server or NAS replacement with an Ubuntu box and this playbook.

PhotoPrism - AI-Powered Photos App for the Decentralized Web 🌈💎✨

WebMCam - Capture frames in real-time and save them as WebM.

Piwigo - Manage your photos with Piwigo, a full featured open source photo gallery application for the web. Star us on Github! More than 200 plugins and themes available. Join us and contribute!

Zenphoto - The Zenphoto open-source gallery and CMS project

librephotos - A self-hosted open source photo management service. This is the repository of the backend.

Chevereto Free - Community/Personal Image Hosting

PiGallery 2 - A fast directory-first photo gallery website, with rich UI, optimized for running on low resource servers (especially on raspberry pi)

Photonix - A modern, web-based photo management server. Run it on your home server and it will let you find the right photo from your collection on any device. Smart filtering is made possible by object recognition, face recognition, location awareness, color analysis and other ML algorithms.

UberGallery - An easy to use, simple to manage, web photo gallery written in PHP.

Gallery CSS - CSS only Gallery

Photoshow - A free web gallery in PHP with drag-n-drop support