Looking for an alternative to synology photos. I moved over to synology about 3 years ago and am now considering moving out of the synology ecosystem. I’m looking for something that has a decent android app, wifi syncing, shareable albums, all the standard stuff.
Edit: thanks for the many replies, I’ll likely move to nextcloud as I was planning on deploying that anyway as a synology drive replacement. I’ll look into immich as well.
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Photoprism
The Immich app does not support self signed ssl certs which is unfortunate for a self hosted app since many home users have ISP imposed restrictions which makes getting a cert from a commercial provider difficult or impossible.
Most other selfhosted apps do not have this problem.
Try a reverse proxy (like the nginx-proxy-manager)
Do those restrictions cause issues with getting certs from Let’s Encrypt?
Getting certs from Let’s Encrypt should work fine with any provider, even if you can’t open any ports, since they do support DNS challenge.
It definitely does. I have some internal-only sites that use Let’s Encrypt certificates. I use acme-dns and Certbot.
Like the peer comment mentioned. just drop nginx in front and let it so the TLS handoff. always recommend to put nginx in front of any open source docker project as you can finetune many of the security controls there.
This only works of you have open ports to obtain and renew the cert from the commercial provider, many self hosters do not have this option.
Why don’t you use LetsEncrypt? You shouldn’t be self signing certs these days
To use lets encrypt or any other acme client you either need port 80 or 443 open. As I mentioned, this is not an option for many self hosters who have these poets closed by their ISPs.
If you own a domain name you can use DNS challenge for obtaining the ssl cert, no need to open ports to get a cert issued. Nginx proxy manager has this feature built in and has support for many DNS name registrars.
If you have Prime and aren’t insisting on self hosting: Amazon Photos gives you unlimited full quality photo backups.
Trying to move all my data out of big cloud providers. I moved to synology when Google started to limit photo storage. Don’t want amazon to have my data either. And I’m not too thrilled with the direction synology is going trying to force proprietary drives on there customers so once again I’m going to move back to self hosted non proprietary solutions.
What sub are you on?
Self hosted. Though hey someone may wind up here via all and scroll and wonder what else there is.
Nextcloud but that’s just because it happens to have photos on it. I’ve not got an alternative to Google photos yet (And I’m halfway through my bloody storage!)
Immich
I actually got so fed up with image galleries that I made my own tiny PHP gallery https://p.drkt.eu/
Did the same, but in perl and used a small javascript in the resulting page. (Made it ages ago)
Did the same in python. Ages ago. And again in python half a decade ago. And again in python a few months ago.
Immich is still in relatively active development, but has a great feature set and is the only app that could reasonably replace Google Photos for me. Can recommend!
Moved to immich from Google photos recently, it’s an awesome replacement and the ml stuff works really well actually
What was your migration process like?
Not bad at all, set it to sync the photos on my phone with the app and imported photos I had on a drive previously, I still need to get a download of all of my Google photos that aren’t on my phone though
The Google Photos part is the what I’m dreading. But good to see immich improving and being recommended more and more.
I’ve tried everything. If you like a modern UI and simplicity, you want immich. The lead dev designs the app specifically so his wife is happy using it, and it shows.
Nothing beats Google Photos for me, personally.
So I bought a used Google Pixel 1 (first gen) and use Syncthing to sync my camera roll from my phone to the Pixel 1.
Google originally advertised the Pixel 1 as having unlimited cloud storage for life, so they have to stick to it. I don’t pay for Google storage but I’ve got at least 500gb stored in Google Photos (including all my RAW photos and my digitised VHS tapes).
I’ll abuse this system until the Pixel 1 dies and I can’t get another one, then I’ll cry.
samba/ftp?
Currently in the middle of a cutover between Flickr/Dropbox/iCloud mess to Photoprism. Immich, I’ll keep in a test instance with a decent chunk of duplicate files but I’m not too keen on how it, along with others, disregards your file structure.
Photoprism librephotos
Both have excelent android clients
I use PhotoSync to backup my iPhone to an SMB share on my NAS
PhotoStructure
I really think there’s nothing better than Photostructure in terms of viewing and re-discovering your photos. It’s still a young product going through growing pains, but the things it does, it does well.
The deduping is very good, too.
I’ve been meaning to spend some time setting up PhotoStructure last year, but never got around to it. I tried it on my desktop PC but want to install it on a server. Eventually :)
Immich is pretty great
