https://github.com/pluja/Selfhosted-Google-Photos-Alternative

A complete guide on exiting Google, Amazon or any proprietary service Photos storage with all the features you would want.
https://github.com/pluja/Selfhosted-Google-Photos-Alternative

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A complete guide on exiting Google, Amazon or any proprietary service Photos storage with all the features you would want.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/pluja/Selfhosted-Google-Photos-Alternative
• Owner: pluja
• License: unlicense
• Created: 2021-07-02T20:38:47.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2022-04-30T15:23:58.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-10T19:27:13.365Z (3 months ago)
• Topics: albums, amazon, facial-recognition, gallery, google, photos, raspberry, rpi, selfhosted, selfhosting, server, storage
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• Size: 160 KB
• Stars: 168
• Watchers: 7
• Forks: 14
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
## 
 Replacing Google Photos 

# 
 Self-Hosted Photo Storage Solution 

After testing a lot (almost all of them) of alternatives and solutions. Finally I came up with the definitive solution, the one that gives me everything I want in an easy (once set up is done), cheap, secure and lightweight way.


At the end of this tutorial we will have a Photo Storage solution that will allow us to:

- [x] Sync our photos from any device.  

- [x] Remove exact-photo duplicates efficiently.  

- [x] Automatically organize our Gallery by Year and Month.  

- [x] Manually run Face Recognition and Face Scanning.  

- [x] Manage our gallery from DigiKam.  

- [x] Have an online gallery with a map, faces, tags, ratings and other filters.  

- [x] Upload an encrypted backup of our gallery to any cloud service.  

- [x] Locally generate a backup on a separated drive.  

- [x] Securelly access our Gallery from anywhere outside our network.  

This can be achieved using a Raspberry Pi 4 and a HDD Storage drive. Pretty cheap!

The stack we will be using is the following:

- [PiGallery2](https://github.com/bpatrik/pigallery2) - A simple and lightweight gallery with all that you expect. Read only.  

  - You can also use [PhotoView](https://github.com/photoview/photoview) instead if you want to be able to do the Face Recognition on the Raspberry itself. I personally prefer not to carry this workload on the RPI.

- [Syncthing](https://syncthing.net/) - A simple, fast, peer-to-peer syncing tool.  

- [Phockup](https://github.com/ivandokov/phockup) - Script to organize your Photos.  

- [Czkawka](https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka) - Find duplicates for your photos really fast.

- [SSHFS](https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs) - Manage remote Gallery folder locally.  

- [DigiKam](https://www.digikam.org/) - Face Recognition and Metadata management.  

- rsync - Efficient backup tool.

- rclone - Rsync for cloud services.

## The Guide

1. [Set up the server](https://github.com/pluja/simple-selfhosting/blob/main/01-Setting-Up-The-Server.md#setup-rpi4-server)

2. [Setting up the Google Photos replacement](https://github.com/pluja/simple-selfhosting/blob/main/02-Photo-Storage-Solution.md#replacing-google-photos)

3. [Outside access: PiVPN](https://github.com/pluja/simple-selfhosting/blob/main/03-PiVPN-Convert-Raspi-Into-VPN.md#convert-your-raspberry-into-a-vpn)