Is there a viable setup where I can NOT sync our photos to our desktops (keep them on an UNRAID file share) and Digikam is the primary way they are served up? There are two unknowns I'm still trying to figure out:ĭoes the import from Google Photos feature work as we're trying to emigrate from Google Photos.Ĭan I save the tagging / other databases in a central file share so that information could be saved across multiple instances of the application on multiple devices? If not, perhaps running it on the server in a VM / docker will be a better option for working with out photos across multiple devices.
NETWORKING DIGIKAM SOFTWARE
This seems like such a great piece of software and I'm very strongly considering donating to help support further development. This works for us to help us sort through out massive library as needed (instead of having to organize it all).Īlso include a (rather ugly) map view, timeline view, etc. Much more customizable that Google Photos in that regard and seems accurate so far. After manually completing a few tags it's good to go from there. With only one sample it did a great job of identifying several phases. The best part is that it has facial recognition and tagging. It also apparently saves metadata back to the files for use by other applications. Just reads from the existing files which is wonderful. but it doesn't duplicate the entire library. It does create database files for tags, etc.
More mature perhaps with a larger community.īoth still looked like they'd be a bit of work to implement.Īn opensource desktop application for viewing, tagging, organizing photos from a library saved elsewhere. It seemed that indexing / importing (couldn't even figure out the difference between these / get indexing to work) could not be set up to run on a schedule (say from a server file share) without scripting and I'm not up to speed on that on UNRAID yet. Overall digiKam gave a good impression, but a couple of things demoted it in my rankings. Maybe I was lucky, but I didn’t experience other crashes when running version 3.4.0 during testing. It looked great, but also a little rough around the edges. The digiKam developers do warn that it’s not as stable under Windows as under Linux. Tagging should be mostly automated and we'll put some time into creating albums as we feel like it. We don't intend to spend a lot of time managing the library. My partner and I have gotten use to Google Photos taking care to tagging and facial recognition automatically. What is lacking is a way to explore the photos (sort, tag, search, etc.).
NETWORKING DIGIKAM ANDROID
NextCloud backup from Android app to server works great for this. I think it's important to me to keep a regular copy of all the photos somewhere (rather than bundled up in a database where I could loose them if something went wrong).
I've recently set up a home server with UNRAID, currently running Plex and NextCloud w/ MariaBD) and am looking for a good photos solution. I've been going down the rabbit hole of self-hosted photo library solutions.
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