How is everyone syncing photos/videos from andriod phones?

Also what are people using to manage/view/arrange the photo collections?

  • rastla@kbin.social
    4·
    1 year ago

    https://immich.app/
    Best Google Photos Alternative I found so far.
    The dev warns though
    ⚠️ The project is under very active development. Expect bugs and changes. Do not use it as the only way to store your photos and videos!
    That’s why I still also use Google Photos at the same time

  • xfd@kbin.social
    3·
    1 year ago

    I’ve tried various self hosted photo synchronization and management solutions, multiple times.
    Lychee, PiGallery2, Libre photos, Immich, and Nextcloud all fell short in different areas.

    The long-term solution I’ve landed on is Photoprism for management and PhotoSync.
    I’ve found Photoprism to have the most features to meet my needs (mainly albums, public links with password protection) as well as not being too resource intensive. However, there isn’t a mobile app, but the mobile web interface is great.
    PhotoSync is a paid app. But I’ve been using this for syncing for 3+ years now and it’s been very reliable.

    My photos are also backed up to an external drive daily and also encrypted and uploaded to Wasabi for redundancy.

      • xfd@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        Yes I have the paid version with all features. But it looks like the add-ons have been split into a few different in app purchases. Just taking a quick look at the free version, it appears to support transfer to local machines. If you want the auto transfer feature, that’s a paid feature.

        Syncthing is good free alternative as well. I use it primarily for documents between devices, I just haven’t tried it with photos since I already have the PhotoSync app configured.

    • pfrench42@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      I’ve been using PhotoSync (paid) as well (for years). I’ve set up a SMB server on a home machine. Launch PhotoSync and it shows the recent photos which haven’t been synced, long-press the “quick sync” button and it uploads them. Fast and simple.

  • stackPeek@kbin.social
    3·
    1 year ago

    Have you tried Syncthing? It’s not the same as Google Photos, but I think it’s one of the best file synchronization software yet. I don’t use it to sync my photos, though, I use it for syncing my markdown notes.

    • RiviusMaximus@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      Adding support for Syncthing. It is the closest thing to Dropbox that I’ve found self-hosted. And that’s perfect for syncing photos to my server. Also as a plus, I can then easily transfer large files from my server to my phone while away! It’s just the syncing part. I am still looking for a good album solution.

  • jabeez@kbin.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    I use Synology Photos, has worked quite well, but that’s obviously only an option if you have Synology NAS.

  • TurboRotary@kbin.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    I use OneDrive for the auto-upload feature. I know it’s not selfhosted, but I want an off-site copy of my pictures anyway, and the phone app works really well for auto-uploading. I had previously tried Nextcloud’s auto-upload, but many times the uploading was stuck and I had to fix it manually.

    I then have nightly rclone jobs to download the photos from OneDrive and store them locally. To view them locally, I use Photoview, which works really well with an existing directory structure.

  • greatley@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    I use Nextcloud with Memories addon but I also use it for general file storage from many sources. If you only need photo sync Immich might make more sense.

  • v3ritas@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    I’m currently using Immich & Nextcloud too. I have some backups in Google Photos, but mainly trying to keep a hold of the photos myself. Having Immich & Nextcloud at least gives me two copies of my photos as a precaution.