Tag: photoprism
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The Backup Shell Script for Photoprism and Immich
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhen I go out to cycle, run, and do other things I take photos and when I come home I sync them to photoprism on one laptop and immich on a separate Raspberry Pi. I use photosync to sync to Photoprism. Once images are ingested I usually run a script almost…
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On Resolute Raccoon and Photoprism
Reading Time: < 1 minuteYesterday when I was looking at Photoprism, and synching from one drive to two other drives, and a second instance I noticed that for some reason I only had the last two months of photos. I eventually noticed that the photos are now living in run/media/… rather than /media/… and it…
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Using Photoprism and Immich in Tandem Across Three Machines
Reading Time: 3 minutesI have an HP laptop running Photoprism, and two Raspberry Pi 5 running Immich. One of the Pi devices is running Immich, solo, and is made accessible via Tailscale when I am on the move. Photoprism runs on the HP laptop and is not available at all times. When the laptop sleeps,…
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Migrating Photoprism From One Machine to Another
Reading Time: 4 minutesDue to the Raspberry Pi 5, and older, having issues with heat throttling and more it makes sense to build a Photoprism on a "normal" laptop before migrating towards the Pi. The process is an interesting one. Photo Consolidation The First step is to consolidate your photos from Google Photos, Apple Photos,…
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On Familiar Faces and Forgotten Names
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s amusing. I look through Immich and Photoprism and I am struck by how many names I have forgotten, but how easily I remember certain faces. I’m also curious to see how I remember certain names after scrolling through faces yet to be identified. Decades ago when I was playing with iPhoto…
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On PhotoSync and Photo Uploader for Photoprism
Reading Time: 2 minutesPhotosync is a photo uploading app that allows you to upload to various devices and cloud solutions with ease. Photo Uploader for Photoprism is a specialist app for Photoprism. The reason for which I bring up both of these apps is that they allow you to sync to photoprism. When I was…
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Sorting Photoprism Photos With the Mistral Cat
Reading Time: 3 minutesI chose to experiment with Le Chat by Mistral, the French AI alternative to Gemini, Claude and CatIFARTED (ChatGPT). For the experiment I copied my Photoprism photos from the drive I use that is connected a Raspberry pi to a laptop before running scripts to sort and remove duplicates. It worked well,…
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Migrating Photos to Photoprism Via Rsync
Reading Time: 2 minutesI downloaded my photographs from Google Photos via Google Takeout before using Exiftool to repopulate the exif metadata. Once this was done, I had to move the files from the mac to the Raspberry Pi running photoprism. For this I used rsync because it can run in the background as you sleep.…
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The Mature Phone Photo Backup Landscape
Reading Time: 3 minutesMany years ago, if I took photos with a nokia phone I had to sync them via a memory card. With the arrival of the Android Nexus on and the Apple iPhone our digital photography habits changed. With time we would leave our cameras at home, and carry our mobile phones, and…
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On Self Hosting and Having Multiple Devices
Reading Time: 4 minutesI grew up in the eighties, and 90s, and so computing, open source software and the world wide web grew up with me. In that time we went from going to magazine shops to buy mags, and cd shops to buy CDs, and book shops to buy books. We also took photos…