I dumped Google photos for self hosted immich and it’s been great. Not sure if it has the ability to connect to photo frames but if you already self host anything else it’s not too much work to setup.
I dumped Google photos for self hosted immich and it’s been great.
I went to install immich but it was very heavy… I don’t need AI in a selfhosted Google Photo’s replacement.
I’m sorry, but then you are the minority. AI image categorization and face recognition is amazing for finding specific pictures quickly
This is one of the few things I can get behind with machine learning. Locally run, doesn’t “phone home”, just analyzes faces and categorizes them. That’s it.
Those features can be disabled to ease up on resources.
It’s really not that heavy. I have Immich - and several other services - running on a 4-core VM with 16GB RAM, running on 7th gen Intel hardware alongside another 4c/16GB VM and several LXC containers. It does the job just fine with more than enough overhead.
The only problem is that my internet’s upload speed is slow as hell.
Try Nextcloud Memories.
Does that run on top of next cloud or can I run it independently of next cloud?
It’s a Nextcloud app.
This API changes takes away the reason I pay for Google One storage so I can cancel it. If I understand the article correctly I can move to iPhone to keep a similar feature, I just need to heart s photo to add it. Might as well abandon Google altogether.
Because of course it won’t
The enshittification must flow.
Sounds like a Nest Frame is preparing for release to me
Sounds like another reason to keep dumping google crap
Stop using Google products. Uninstall Chrome, delete Gmail, etc.
You shouldn’t be trusting google to store your photos anyways.
Or third party, really…
I’m still salty about them discontinuing synchronization between Google photos and Google drive years ago. Such an unnecessary and irritating move. Before that it was getting rid of the picassa desktop app which was actually quite a good photo library manager. The enshitification marches on.
I was still using Picassa desktop up until about a year ago. I only stopped because the software doesn’t support HEIC.
Damn. I miss Picasa. It was a powerful tool too.
Here’s a slightly convoluted but effective way of syncing a dumb/simple digital frame with Google photos, by means of a raspberry pi zero
To be clear, users can still manually share Google Photos pics with connected frames.
It’s shitty that they removed apps ability to see all photos when authorized, though.
Immich FTW
