how do you manage loads of pictures?

[danb35]

@John Doe, PicApport may be an option:

PicApport | The self-hosted private photo server with photo gallery and photo management

The free software for photo management. Easily manage photos and videos, and provide them locally in your WLAN or internet from your server.

www.picapport.de

I haven't made any attempt to install it on FreeNAS as yet, but a quick overview of the docs suggests it should be possible.

Edit: See also:

PicApport running fine in a FreeNAS jail, but not as a service

I got PicApport, a nice self-hosted private photo and video opensource server with gallery and photo management, to run in a FreeNAS Jail, but could not get it to run as a service. Installation of PicApport, in a freenas jail (11.3): 1 - Created a jail in my favorite pool (say "MyPool" for...

www.truenas.com

 

[John Doe]

thanks, that looks promising!

will check the T&Cs and might give it a try over the weekend

 

[danb35]

I haven't done much with PicApport, but the instructions in the thread I linked were enough of a start to get it running--though I think the rc script still needs some refining. Make sure to tell it in the .properties file where to store (or look for) the photos.

 

[John Doe]

I haven't done much with PicApport, but the instructions in the thread I linked were enough of a start to get it running--though I think the rc script still needs some refining. Make sure to tell it in the .properties file where to store (or look for) the photos.

thanks for pointing that out.
PicApport seems like a good solution. It is using a third party service for face recognition and auto tagging.
I need to dig more into that 3rd party privacy statement and what is submitted to that company.

privacy law within europe got quite strict in the past year...

 

[HolyK]

@joeschmuck Take a look at this: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarde...ka_20_app_to_clean_duplicates_similar_images/

 

[danb35]

@John Doe, there's work in progress on a port of PhotoPrism. I don't yet see that it does face recognition, but it definitely analyzes the photos and tries to describe them. The instructions here should get it running in a jail:

How to install PhotoPrism in Jail?

git. More precisely: I'm not sure what the current replacement to portsnap fetch extract. From what I see on the FreeBSD forum, it looks like git clone --depth 1 https://cgit-beta.freebsd.org/ports.git, but that's not quite an official source.

www.truenas.com

Some examples of image analysis:

 

[John Doe]

@John Doe, there's work in progress on a port of PhotoPrism. I don't yet see that it does face recognition, but it definitely analyzes the photos and tries to describe them. The instructions here should get it running in a jail:

How to install PhotoPrism in Jail?

git. More precisely: I'm not sure what the current replacement to portsnap fetch extract. From what I see on the FreeBSD forum, it looks like git clone --depth 1 https://cgit-beta.freebsd.org/ports.git, but that's not quite an official source.

www.truenas.com

Some examples of image analysis:
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appreciated!
will check that out once I find time for that...

you might imagine during home office and lockdown you gain more time for that kind of stuff but somehow it is the other way round.

 

[TooMuchData]

over the years I got more and more pictures.
currently I have them all on a SMB share in folders.

probably many of them are double, they are not sorted in a proper way.... it is a mess

I can remember, that google had a photo tol called picasa with auto face recognition, tagging pictures for geo location etc.

is there an application around, that manages that all on the server directly with a strong focus on privacy?

if not, how do you manage you pics?

I've been running PIWEGO in a TrueNAS jail for years. 350 albums and 50k photos. Some albums are public, others restricted to certain users or groups. Security can be at the level of individual photos.

 

[chris4nas]

Hello, I'm trying to follow the instructions ( danb35/freenas-iocage-lychee ) and the first instruction is "Change to a convenient directory, clone the repository using git clone https://github.com/danb35/freenas-iocage-lychee, change to the freenas-iocage-lychee directory, and create a configuration file called lychee-config with your favorite text editor (if you don't have a favorite text editor, nano is a good choice--run nano lychee-config). Then run the script with script lychee.log ./lychee-jail.sh."

I'm not sure what is meant by "change in to a convenient directory". Can someone please clarify?

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

I'm not sure what is meant by "change in to a convenient directory". Can someone please clarify?

Login to your NAS via ssh. Create a directory in a path of your choice with mkdir. Change to that directory with cd.

 

[chris4nas]

Login to your jail via ssh. Create a directory in a path of your choice with mkdir. Change to that directory with cd.

Thanks for the reply. I'm picking away at this as I find time. So far I've run the git clone command in the /media directory of the jail and used nano to make the lychee-config file in the freeness-iocage-lychee directory. My config file looks like this (I've verified that the IPs are correct):

JAIL_IP="192.168.50.193"
DEFAULT_GW_IP="192.168.50.1"
POOL_PATH="/mnt/Photos"

This is as far as anything makes sense to me because I'm not clear on where/how I should run the script command... In the freeness-iocage-lychee directory? or at the Truenas root? Also, will the command need to be modified according to my system or does 'script lychee.log ./lychee-jail.sh' work for everyone, assuming all previous steps were done properly.

 

[chris4nas]

Thanks for the reply. I'm picking away at this as I find time. So far I've run the git clone command in the /media directory of the jail and used nano to make the lychee-config file in the freeness-iocage-lychee directory. My config file looks like this (I've verified that the IPs are correct):

JAIL_IP="192.168.50.193"
DEFAULT_GW_IP="192.168.50.1"
POOL_PATH="/mnt/Photos"

This is as far as anything makes sense to me because I'm not clear on where/how I should run the script command... In the freeness-iocage-lychee directory? or at the Truenas root? Also, will the command need to be modified according to my system or does 'script lychee.log ./lychee-jail.sh' work for everyone, assuming all previous steps were done properly.

I should add the result I get when I run the script the freeness-iocage-lychee directory:


root@Lychee:/media/freenas-iocage-lychee # script lychee.log ./lychee-jail.sh

Script started, output file is lychee.log

./lychee-jail.sh: iocage: not found

/iocage: No such file or directory

./lychee-jail.sh: iocage: not found

Failed to create jail

Script done, output file is lychee.log

root@Lychee:/media/freenas-iocage-lychee #

 

[danb35]

Login to your jail via ssh.

I'd overlooked this earlier--no, this isn't correct. Do not log in to the jail. Do not create a jail. The script creates the jail.

@chris4nas, destroy the jail you've created, download the script somewhere on your FreeNAS system, and then follow the remaining instructions.

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

Sorry, my bad. I was just trying to answer the "how do I create a directory" question. I edited my post.

 

[HarambeLives]

I'm a bit late to the topic, but I used Advanced Renamer to get all the names in order, then put them into year by year folders for actual pictures

If they are Images (So not pictures I took) they get their own folder

Once the pictures are organized, at the end of the year I archive that years picture onto M-DISC - https://blog.networkprofile.org/archiving-pictures-to-m/

After they are archived, I make a new folder inside the year called "Archived" and move all the images to that. This way, if I find a new picture which goes into a past year, it's clear it has not been archived

 

[chris4nas]

Sorry, my bad. I was just trying to answer the "how do I create a directory" question. I edited my post.

Thanks for your help on this, I managed to install based on your tips but next steps in the setup are a foreign language to me and I don't have the time to get up to speed, so I'm bowing out now.

 

[winnielinnie]

Once the pictures are organized, at the end of the year I archive that years picture onto M-DISC - https://blog.networkprofile.org/archiving-pictures-to-m/

There's no way that's YOUR blog post, is it? If so, then what a small world we live in!

I used that same blog post and the provided .docx sleeve templates to do practically the same thing with video/photo archives for my family and relatives, making multiple copies of each disc for different members to keep somewhere safe. (Event-based, not year-based, though.)

 

[HarambeLives]

Thats pretty funny!

Yep, thats my blog. Well at least I could help someone

Thats pretty clever giving them to family members, then its off-site and they could enjoy them!

 

[Timmers22]

There's this one:

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

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

github.com

Script to install in a FreeNAS/TrueNAS jail here:

GitHub - danb35/freenas-iocage-lychee: Create an iocage jail on FreeNAS 11.3/TrueNAS 12.0 with Lychee photo gallery

Create an iocage jail on FreeNAS 11.3/TrueNAS 12.0 with Lychee photo gallery - danb35/freenas-iocage-lychee

github.com

Thanks for the script.

I know this an old thread, but in case someone else was looking to install Lychee in a TrueNAS Core jail, some small tweaks are now needed:

The script almost works, but failed when it tried to do the composer part. I got a 503 error "../vendor/autoload.php not found. Please do: composer install --no-dev --prefer-dist" when I browsed to the jail's IP address.

It seems Lychee requires PHP 8 now. On a whim, I replaced all the pkg references in the script from "php74" to "php80" and amazingly, it worked. For example: "php74-pdo-mysql" becomes "php80-pdo-mysql". In total, 20 replacements were needed.

@danb35: Your well-constructed script made it easy for a novice such as myself to work out what to do. Thanks a lot.

 

[danb35]

It seems Lychee requires PHP 8 now. On a whim, I replaced all the pkg references in the script from "php74" to "php80" and amazingly, it worked. For example: "php74-pdo-mysql" becomes "php80-pdo-mysql". In total, 20 replacements were needed.

Thanks, I've updated the script to reflect this.