Tag: photoprism

  • A Move from Self-Hosting on a Pi5 8gb to a Pi5 4gb Continued

    A Move from Self-Hosting on a Pi5 8gb to a Pi5 4gb Continued

    Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I shifted my data and setup from the Pi5 8gb to the Pi5 4gb with relative ease. I rsynched the data from one Pi to the other, brought up the docker containers, checked that they were working before shutting down the other Pi. I then swapped the 8gb Pi with the…

  • Migrating Audiobookshelf From Instance to Instance

    Migrating Audiobookshelf From Instance to Instance

    Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I switched from Ubuntu on the Pi5 to Raspberry Pi’s version of Debian. I experimented this because I had just moved the data from one file system to another so it seemed like the right time to switch from one OS to another. ## ExFat to Ext4 The first step was…

  • A Rainy Day

    A Rainy Day

    Reading Time: 2 minutesThis morning it rained and this afternoon I fled from noise pollution. I had planned to write a blog post this morning but inspiration failed to come. I was distracted because I don’t know whether it is the USB ports on a PI 5 that have failed or if it is a…

  • The Nicest Pi Setup Yet

    The Nicest Pi Setup Yet

    Reading Time: 2 minutesThere are several types of people. One of them is youtubers that try and fail until they succeed, and then there are people like me, who also try and fail until they succeed. In one case the individual probably gets millions of views, and earns enough to waste hundreds of dollars per…

  • PhotoPrism self-boot

    PhotoPrism self-boot

    Reading Time: 2 minutesThis morning I made PhotoPrism self-booting. I am not certain that this is the write term so I will specify what I mean. PhotoPrism, when run via docker boots, when we tell it to boot, like any other app on our laptop. This morning, after a little time spent with AI I…

  • Kdrive and PhotoPrism

    Kdrive and PhotoPrism

    Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I configured PhotoPrism to work with my iPhone photo album that was being synced to Infomaniak’s Kdrive, before then being synced to a drive that I could access via the Photoprism docker-compose config file. I then used No-ip to make that PhotoPrism instance available to the world wide web. For several…

  • Photoprism and Fast Loading

    Photoprism and Fast Loading

    Reading Time: 2 minutesast night I spent hours going through videos and changing them from “public” to private, so that they would be removed from the index. I went through them by loading 2024 without filters and worked my way through 60 or so files at a time, before scrolling, and waiting for content to…

  • PhotoPrism On a Pi Continued

    PhotoPrism On a Pi Continued

    Reading Time: 2 minutesAfter more than a week of working twenty four hours a day my Raspberry Pi 4 finally indexed over 120,000 videos and photos. The first thing that I notice is that Photoprism feels slower now. It takes several seconds and it feels as if it is suffering. ## Overloaded with 120,000 Files…

  • PhotoPrism, Walks in Cold Weather and Migrating to Linux

    PhotoPrism, Walks in Cold Weather and Migrating to Linux

    Reading Time: 2 minutes## A Cold Walk Yesterday I went out for my daily walk but within minutes I noticed that my legs felt cold and that I really did need the scarf that I wore. It’s exceptional for me to wear a scarf. My fleece and my inner coat both have neck protection built…

  • Migrating Media Assets from Google Photos to PhotoPrism

    Migrating Media Assets from Google Photos to PhotoPrism

    Reading Time: 5 minutesYesterday I started the proper migration of my Google Photo assets from Google Takeout to [PhotoPrism](https://www.photoprism.app/). The first step was to mount the drives to the linux system, the second was to transfer the photos from the external hard drive to the internal SD card, unzip them, and then start imposing assets.…