hi. i’m looking for an extremely simple selfhosted photo gallery software. i have photos from my laptop, a camera, and my phone. they are all rsync’ed onto my server. so on the server I have ~/Pictures/Laptop ~/Pictures/Camera ~/Pictures/Phone filled with JPEG/PNG/HEICs and no subdirectories.

i want to view photos from all three directories on a single timeline/feed, from the web (and if possible, via a mobile app). currently I VNC onto the server to run XnView and check each directory and this is a terrible user experience especially on a phone.

i don’t want to run a separate database or anything complex, so things like Immich or Photoprism are not an option. would be nice to be able to assign a tag to some images (“work”, “computer”, …) but it’s not a necessity. and i don’t need the ability to edit/remove images from the gallery.

i’ve considered rolling my own solution but thought there might be something already available.

thanks!

  • NewOldGuard@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    7 hours ago

    Why would that write off immich? Docker compose is a recommended installation path for it

    • Derin@lemmy.beru.coEnglish
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      5 hours ago

      All of its install steps other than docker compose are still containers, or relate to hosting services, or specific managed platforms.

      I’m a simple admin who likes to compile, copy to /usr/bin, prep my system user, populate a directory in /etc with all necessary configs, and write my own .service files.

      If you like running single binaries in their own Docker instances, more power to you, but it rubs me the wrong way when people try to force that on me.

      NB: I’m not above reading a Dockerfile and executing the steps manually, case in point: that’s how I build lemmy_server for my current instance… but the Immich steps are waay too involved, with too much of the software expecting some less than sane defaults for me. I went through it once, left a bad taste in my mouth, so I stopped using Immich.

      Edit: Just to be clear, here’s the installation steps for Photofield. That’s what I like to see. “Download a binary, run, config lives at xxx” - delicious. I also don’t mind doing a ./configure and make if they want me to - just don’t bloat my system with an entire duplicate OS.

      • NewOldGuard@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        4 hours ago

        I misread your comment and thought you said you do run docker, i get where youre coming from