hi. i’m looking for an extremely simple selfhosted photo gallery software. i have photos from my laptop, a camera, and my phone. they are all rsync’ed onto my server. so on the server I have ~/Pictures/Laptop ~/Pictures/Camera ~/Pictures/Phone filled with JPEG/PNG/HEICs and no subdirectories.

i want to view photos from all three directories on a single timeline/feed, from the web (and if possible, via a mobile app). currently I VNC onto the server to run XnView and check each directory and this is a terrible user experience especially on a phone.

i don’t want to run a separate database or anything complex, so things like Immich or Photoprism are not an option. would be nice to be able to assign a tag to some images (“work”, “computer”, …) but it’s not a necessity. and i don’t need the ability to edit/remove images from the gallery.

i’ve considered rolling my own solution but thought there might be something already available.

thanks!

  • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
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    8 hours ago

    Another vote for Immich. Running it with docker compose is trivial. Been using it for 2 years now and it’s been glorious. Running it without docker would take more setup, not sure how complex.

  • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    23 hours ago

    Immich works really well. Don’t fear the database. Docker makes it all super easy too.

    Alternatively, Plex manages photos ok-ish.

    • hexagonwin@lemmy.todayOPEnglish
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      23 hours ago

      I really don’t want another complex service i have to manage. ideally i want something that’s a simple python/perl/php script or something like that.

      forgot to mention in OP but I run freebsd on my server and it’s possible to run docker(podman) with linux emulation if it’s very necessary, but i prefer not to use it

      • frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        15 hours ago

        Immich isn’t complex, and I don’t think it requires a separate database.

        Edit: just checked and technically it does, but if you use the docker compose then it deploys it automatically and you don’t have to think about it at all.

        Edit2: if you really want something dead simple, yeah you could trivially write a tiny script to list and thumbnail images. I’m sure there are apache plugins for exactly this.