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Not sure if it has been mentioned already but photoprism added face recognition a few releases ago and it is working well for me: https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism
The quality of this software is overall extremely good. It is a solo-developer as well so you might want to consider sponsoring them if you end up using it.
I am not affiliated, just a happy user :)
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I have recently switched to a M1 Mac Mini, and just have each family member sign in to that using Remote Desktop. It brings the added bonus of working as a content cache for anything iCloud.
My only gripe is that it downloads the shared photo album (new in iOS 16) once for each account, and when your photo library is 1.8TB, that suddenly becomes a lot of wasted space. When it comes to backing it up the backup software deduplicates the data, but not for the initial storage.
I really wish Apple would implement some kind of method for backing up photos stored in the cloud without the need for mirroring them.
Before the M1 I was using iCloud photo downloader ( https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_do... ) on a Raspberry Pi 4 which also worked well, but in the end I got tired of iCloud credentials expiring every ~90 days, requiring each family member to login again through a console.
Considering the M1 idles at roughly 20% more than a RPi4 (M1 at 4.5W) it was an easy sell. I just got the cheapest model and added a large USB drive. Using a Mac also gives you the possibility of using something like Backblaze Personal with unlimited backup storage, if that’s your thing :-)
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WorkOS
The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
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FOSS photo software with face recognition (note that some of this is off-premise face recognition, sometimes requiring an API key you get on your own)
https://github.com/LibrePhotos/librephotos
I may have missed some: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#pho...
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I have recently switched to a M1 Mac Mini, and just have each family member sign in to that using Remote Desktop. It brings the added bonus of working as a content cache for anything iCloud.
My only gripe is that it downloads the shared photo album (new in iOS 16) once for each account, and when your photo library is 1.8TB, that suddenly becomes a lot of wasted space. When it comes to backing it up the backup software deduplicates the data, but not for the initial storage.
I really wish Apple would implement some kind of method for backing up photos stored in the cloud without the need for mirroring them.
Before the M1 I was using iCloud photo downloader ( https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_do... ) on a Raspberry Pi 4 which also worked well, but in the end I got tired of iCloud credentials expiring every ~90 days, requiring each family member to login again through a console.
Considering the M1 idles at roughly 20% more than a RPi4 (M1 at 4.5W) it was an easy sell. I just got the cheapest model and added a large USB drive. Using a Mac also gives you the possibility of using something like Backblaze Personal with unlimited backup storage, if that’s your thing :-)
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librephotos
A self-hosted open source photo management service. This is the repository of the backend.
FOSS photo software with face recognition (note that some of this is off-premise face recognition, sometimes requiring an API key you get on your own)
https://github.com/LibrePhotos/librephotos
I may have missed some: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#pho...
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awesome-selfhosted
A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers
FOSS photo software with face recognition (note that some of this is off-premise face recognition, sometimes requiring an API key you get on your own)
https://github.com/LibrePhotos/librephotos
I may have missed some: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#pho...
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InfluxDB
Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
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I pull mine from Google Photos, with a docker image running a tool: https://github.com/gilesknap/gphotos-sync
Its not perfect, but as a backup, it works well.
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docker-icloudpd
An Alpine Linux 3.19.0 container for the iCloud Photos Downloader command line utility
And packaged as a docker container to run daily, weekly, or monthly backups. https://github.com/boredazfcuk/docker-icloudpd
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osxphotos
Python app to work with pictures and associated metadata from Apple Photos on macOS. Also includes a package to provide programmatic access to the Photos library, pictures, and metadata.
I’ve been using this tool to backup Apple Photos library to an external drive: https://github.com/RhetTbull/osxphotos
