{"id":11314,"date":"2024-01-21T12:25:12","date_gmt":"2024-01-21T10:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/?p=11314"},"modified":"2024-01-21T12:25:12","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T10:25:12","slug":"photoprism-self-boot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/photoprism-self-boot\/","title":{"rendered":"PhotoPrism self-boot"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

This 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 found the solution. <\/p>\n

I used ChatGPT\u00a0for this help but this is to give you an idea of how to enable docker containers to boot automatically rather than manually. It’s by a little trial and error that I suceeded in what I wanted to do. <\/p>\n

Boiled down Chat GPT\u00a0gave this overview<\/p>\n

> To start a service: sudo systemctl start servicename.service
\n> To stop a service: sudo systemctl stop servicename.service
\n> To restart a service: sudo systemctl restart servicename.service
\n> To enable a service to start on boot: sudo systemctl enable servicename.service
\n> To disable a service from starting on boot: sudo systemctl disable servicename service<\/p>\n

In concrete terms you need to “sudo nano \/etc\/systemd\/system\/photoprism.service” and add<\/p>\n

> [Unit]\n> Description=PhotoPrism Docker Compose Service
\n> Requires=docker.service
\n> After=docker.service<\/p>\n

> [Service]\n> Type=oneshot
\n> RemainAfterExit=yes
\n> ExecStart=\/usr\/local\/bin\/docker-compose -f \/path\/to\/your\/docker-compose.yml up -d
\n> ExecStop=\/usr\/local\/bin\/docker-compose -f \/path\/to\/your\/docker-compose.yml down<\/p>\n

> [Install]\n> WantedBy=default.target<\/p>\n

In my case it was \/usr\/bin rather than local bin. That’s a little thing to look out for. To double check use “which docker-compose” and you will see what to use for the execstart address.<\/p>\n

If you are using an external volume double check that the mount point is static. I rebooted twice and got three mount points as well as an “original picture folder empty” message due to the photo drive being mounted in the wrong place. To fix this I used. <\/p>\n

> sudo blkid <\/p>\n

to locate the uuid of the hard drive before personalising this line: <\/p>\n

> UUID= \/path\/to\/mountpoint ext4 defaults 0 2
\nI left the defaults behaviouts. The 0 is for fsck to check the file system and 2 is the backup priority number.<\/p>\n

This is added via:<\/p>\n

> sudo nano \/etc\/fstab<\/p>\n

Once you have ensured that the drive mount point will remain the same, boot after boot you can run the next lines. <\/p>\n

Reload Systemd
\n> sudo systemctl daemon-reload<\/p>\n

Enable PhotoPrism to launch at boot
\n> sudo systemctl enable photoprism.service<\/p>\n

To start the service
\n> sudo systemctl start photoprism.service<\/p>\n

And finally you can run <\/p>\n

> sudo systemctl status photoprism.service
\nto check service status. <\/p>\n

## And Finally<\/p>\n

When I set up a server for photoprism or other services I want it to boot automatically as soon as the computer is booted. I don’t want to have to start services manually. With this workflow I was able to setup PhotoPrism to boot automatically, as well as to make sure that the photo drive would mount to the right place each time I booted the system. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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