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Alternative to Google Photos (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 year ago by CoachDom@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/foss

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So I'm looking to disconnect myself from Google and their tracking (as much as possible) and I was thinking about installing GrapheneOS on my Pixel phone. I mostly use my phone for Lemmy, Signal, NewPipe and taking photos. The last one is my biggest bother at the moment. The Google Photos environment is so convenient - I take a photo, it uploads it to my Google Photos collection, and after a while, it deletes it from my phone to clear space, keeping only the cloud backup. Is there a functionality like this disconnected from Google that I would be able to implement on my GrapheneOS phone? I'm looking to invest in the Proton environment (mainly Mail and Drive) so I could use that for storage. Cheers

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[–] JurassicPork@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This was one of my last de-googling projects, I currently self hosting photoprism, I have syncthing that syncs my photos to a network attached storage....at 3am it copies those pictures to a permanent location (I do 3am because during the day if you want to delete any photos etc. Before it syncs with photoprism.... At 4am my nas backs up to another nas (they are just a few portable HD for redundancy) photoprism works great for me, not as powerful as say Google photos, but close 2nd for me..... And for accessing the photos when not at home, have setup wireguard VPN for away from home access....... I see you want automatic deletion of the photos on your phone, I'd say you be able to run a CRON job that maybe every day (if you have made sure that your pictures are for sure being backed up in the middle of the night, that would automatically delete your dcim pictures folder..... I also run graphene, I'll give it a try and let you know if it works

P.s. my NAS drives are connected to a raspberry pi

[–] chahk 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I tried to get Photoprism running on my unRAID server a while ago, but the setup was quite involved and I messed up a couple of steps. Ended up dusting off my old Synology DS412+ and running Moments on it. It's slow as hell (running on a 12 year old Atom processor and 4GB RAM) but it got me off of Google Photos.