Need advice about running a photo server for family

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  • Lychee

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

  • Looks like they moved the repo here

  • Lychee

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

  • InfluxDB

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  • docker

    ā›“ Docker image of Nextcloud (by nextcloud)

  • Some of the extensions have dependencies not included in base image. They keep the base image clean to keep it small. See some of their official examples. https://github.com/nextcloud/docker/tree/master/.examples/dockerfiles/full. Iā€™m using their official image as the base image and adding dependencies. I based mine off of https://github.com/andrey18106/mediadc-docker-example, but use Nextcloud 25 as the latest version (25 is latest stable with most plugins up to it) as well as dependency additions for recognize and facial recognition extensions not available in base.

  • mediadc-docker-example

    Nextcloud MediaDC docker configuration example

  • Some of the extensions have dependencies not included in base image. They keep the base image clean to keep it small. See some of their official examples. https://github.com/nextcloud/docker/tree/master/.examples/dockerfiles/full. Iā€™m using their official image as the base image and adding dependencies. I based mine off of https://github.com/andrey18106/mediadc-docker-example, but use Nextcloud 25 as the latest version (25 is latest stable with most plugins up to it) as well as dependency additions for recognize and facial recognition extensions not available in base.

  • PhotoPrism

    AI-Powered Photos App for the Decentralized Web šŸŒˆšŸ’ŽāœØ

  • Damselfly

    Damselfly is a server-based Photograph Management app. The goal of Damselfly is to index an extremely large collection of images, and allow easy search and retrieval of those images, using metadata such as the IPTC keyword tags, as well as the folder and file names. Damselfly includes support for object/face detection.

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    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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  • immich

    High performance self-hosted photo and video management solution.

  • Edit: Looks like they're currently working on that too.

  • integration_google

    šŸ‡¬ Google integration into Nextcloud

  • recognize

    šŸ‘ šŸ‘‚ Smart media tagging for Nextcloud: recognizes faces, objects, landscapes, music genres

  • Yes, you need to install the Recognize app (https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/recognize)

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