photoprism-docs VS immich

I got it: https://docs.photoprism.app/ https://selfhosted.show/32

version: '3.8' services: ## PhotoPrism service ## Docs: https://docs.photoprism.org/ photoprism: image: photoprism/photoprism:latest security_opt: - seccomp:unconfined - apparmor:unconfined depends_on: - mariadb network_mode: host environment: - PHOTOPRISM_UID=$USER_UID # user id, should match your host user id - PHOTOPRISM_GID=$USER_GID # group id - PHOTOPRISM_ADMIN_PASSWORD=photoprism # initial "admin" password (minimum 8 characters) ## Public server URL incl http:// or https:// and /path, :port is optional - PHOTOPRISM_SITE_URL="https://"redacted":2342/" - PHOTOPRISM_SITE_CAPTION="AI-Powered Photos App" - PHOTOPRISM_SITE_DESCRIPTION="Open-Source Photo Management" - PHOTOPRISM_SITE_AUTHOR="@photoprism_app" # Storage - PHOTOPRISM_STORAGE_PATH=/photoprism/storage - PHOTOPRISM_ORIGINALS_PATH=/photoprism/originals - PHOTOPRISM_IMPORT_PATH=/photoprism/import - PHOTOPRISM_ASSETS_PATH=/photoprism/asset # Features - PHOTOPRISM_DEBUG=true - PHOTOPRISM_READONLY=false - PHOTOPRISM_PUBLIC=true - PHOTOPRISM_EXPERIMENTAL=false #Server Web set - PHOTOPRISM_SERVER_MODE=debug - PHOTOPRISM_HTTP_HOST=192.168.1.98 - PHOTOPRISM_HTTP_PORT=2342 - PHOTOPRISM_HTTP_COMPRESSION=gzip # improves transfer speed and bandwidth utilization (none or gzip) # Database connection - PHOTOPRISM_DATABASE_DRIVER=mysql - PHOTOPRISM_DATABASE_SERVER=mariadb:4001 - PHOTOPRISM_DATABASE_NAME=photoprism - PHOTOPRISM_DATABASE_USER=photoprism - PHOTOPRISM_DATABASE_PASSWORD=photoprism # Photo file settings - PHOTOPRISM_DISABLE_CHOWN=false # disables storage permission updates on startup - PHOTOPRISM_DISABLE_BACKUPS=false # disables backing up albums and photo metadata to YAML files - PHOTOPRISM_DISABLE_WEBDAV=false # disables built-in WebDAV server - PHOTOPRISM_DISABLE_SETTINGS=false # disables settings UI and API - PHOTOPRISM_DISABLE_PLACES=false # disables reverse geocoding and maps - PHOTOPRISM_DISABLE_EXIFTOOL=false # disables creating JSON metadata sidecar files with ExifTool - PHOTOPRISM_DISABLE_TENSORFLOW=false # disables all features depending on TensorFlow - PHOTOPRISM_DETECT_NSFW=false # flag photos as private that MAY be offensive (requires TensorFlow) - PHOTOPRISM_UPLOAD_NSFW=false # allows uploads that may be offensive - PHOTOPRISM_RAW_PRESETS=false # enables applying user presets when converting RAW files (reduces performance) - PHOTOPRISM_THUMB_FILTER=blackman # resample filter, best to worst: blackman, lanczos, cubic, linear - PHOTOPRISM_THUMB_UNCACHED=true # enables on-demand thumbnail rendering (high memory and cpu usage) - PHOTOPRISM_THUMB_SIZE=4096 # pre-rendered thumbnail size limit (default 2048, min 720, max 7680) - PHOTOPRISM_THUMB_SIZE_UNCACHED=7680 # on-demand rendering size limit (default 7680, min 720, max 7680) - PHOTOPRISM_JPEG_SIZE=7680 # size limit for converted image files in pixels (720-30000) - PHOTOPRISM_JPEG_QUALITY=100 # image quality, a higher value reduces compression (25-100) - TF_CPP_MIN_LOG_LEVEL=0 # show TensorFlow log messages for development working_dir: "/photoprism" volumes: - ${DOCKERDIR}/photoprism/storage:/photoprism/storage - ${DOCKERDIR}/photoprism/asset:/photoprism/asset - ${DOCKERDIR}/dataserve/Photos/originals:/photoprism/originals #Photo Library - ${DOCKERDIR}/interchange/Media/photoprismimport:/photoprism/import # to import photos ## MariaDB 10.8 Database Server ## Docs: https://mariadb.com/kb/en/release-notes-mariadb-108-series/ mariadb: image: mariadb:10.8-rc command: mysqld --port=4001 --transaction-isolation=READ-COMMITTED --character-set-server=utf8mb4 --collation-server=utf8mb4_unicode_ci --max-connections=512 --innodb-rollback-on-timeout=OFF --innodb-lock-wait-timeout=120 network_mode: host volumes: - ${DOCKERDIR}/photoprism/mariadb-init.sql:/docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/init.sql - ${DOCKERDIR}/photoprism/data:/var/lib/mysql environment: - MARIADB_AUTO_UPGRADE="1" - MARIADB_INITDB_SKIP_TZINFO="1" - MARIADB_DATABASE=photoprism - MARIADB_USER=photoprism - MARIADB_PASSWORD=photoprism - MARIADB_ROOT_PASSWORD=photoprism

Feel free to open an issue here in case you miss something specific: https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism-docs/issues

Have you tried using the Files app for image/file transfers? You can add Samba (and other) shares in there by tapping the '...' in the upper-right corner, hitting 'Connect to Server', then inputting your local server's address and connecting. I use this not just for photos, but for transferring various files and docs to/from my phone/home server.

You mentioned not wanting to mass-select 2000+ photos. If the photos you're uploading fall within a certain date range, you can open the Photos app, search for the date range of photos you want to upload (e.g. "April 20 2024 to today", or "sept 21 2018 to mar 2020"). It'll return photos taken in that date range, where you can tap 'See All', then 'Select' > 'Select All' at the top of the screen. Then you can hit the 'Share' dialogue and upload to your server through Files without having to scroll and select tons of individual pics. Keep in mind that you can't use a '-' in place of the word 'to' when specifying a date range for some reason.

If your images are family memories, you might be interested in Immich[1] (if you're open to making changes to your photo storage setup). Stand up and configure the local server, install the smartphone app, enable automatic sync, and it'll automatically upload new photos from your phone when you open the Immich app. No need for you to manually keep track of your photo syncs. Built to be a local Google Photos replacement. Has features like shared albums, face recognition/person naming, smart search, etc. AI tasks, like everything else, are done entirely locally. It's a nice piece of software, and lots of people (including privacy advocate Louis Rossmann) vouch for it.

[1] https://immich.app/

https://immich.app/ has built in auto-detection and tagging.

I am surprised by the over-engineered comment. Object auto-detection is kind of an advanced feature and I would expect a lot of extra infra required for it. Immich hides it because they just publish docker containers for you but I imagine it would feel more complex if you were to look at the internals.

It really is hard to leave Gmail when all of your data has been conveniently stored therein. This is one of Google's retention strategies and it is indeed brilliant.

That said, there's a vast number of self-hosted alternatives like Stalwart Mail (email) [1], Immich (images) [2], NextCloud (Google Docs) [3], etc.

[1] https://stalwa.rt

[2] https://immich.app

[3] https://nextcloud.com/

Last year we added CLIP-based image search to https://immich.app/ and even though I have a pretty good understanding of how it works, it still blows my mind damn near every day. It's the closest thing to magic I've ever seen.

I’m a big fan of https://immich.app/ and I use it every day for thousands of assets