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What are you using as a Google photos alternative? Currently I'm using Nextcloud but I'm thinking of switching to a more dedicated solution.

I mainly need to upload photos from my device automatically, have an UI to see and classify them, albuns and sharing.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Hi is there a guide for Complete Newbie like me , right from how to download this software(I could not find link or anything resembling.exe for installation,) upptill how doninput it on my zorin os laptop and setup my and my familys phone to upload photos to our own laptops via immich. Like a a book idiots guide to xyz... Kind of thing

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I think this is hard to answer because there's no "one way" to do this.

Do you want it accessible only in your house, and you're running something like a raspberry pi? That's one set of instructions.

Do you want it accessible from anywhere in the world, with proper TLS? That's a little more complicated, and there are a million ways to do this


do you want to self host and expose public IP? Self host using a VPN as the entry point? Host on a VPS?

I would recommend playing around with it first. This is easiest if you can get a well-supported environment, so something like a raspberry pi is best IMHO if you want to play around with minimal frustration.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Hi thanks for your reply. I have laptop with external drive that i use as server at home. Ideally as easy part1 i would only upload pictures home, and would access them home only. This is not a public intelltual property, it's our photos so no public IP needed.

What i am looking is

My and familys phones are getting full of pics and videos, so instead of using Google Photos can we upload it our own server at home easily and wirelessly. If need be we can watch them on tv . That's it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

“IP” in this context means “internet protocol address”. A public IP is one that can be accessed from outside your home (what you see when you go to https://whatismyipaddress.com/). A non-public, or internal, IP is the one your router gives your computer, frequently starting with 192.168. This can be accessed by other computers on your network but not from outside your network.

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