# Photoprism as Google Photos Replacement - My Experience
**URL:** https://forum.yunohost.org/t/photoprism-as-google-photos-replacement-my-experience/13510
**Category:** Discuss
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**Created:** [December 4, 2020, 11:26pm UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/photoprism-as-google-photos-replacement-my-experience/13510 "2020-12-04T23:26:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@arkadi](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/arkadi)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2020, 11:26pm UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/photoprism-as-google-photos-replacement-my-experience/13510/1 "2020-12-04T23:26:57Z")
Anybody else heard of, or using Photoprism? [GitHub - photoprism/photoprism: Photos App powered by Go and Google TensorFlow š](https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism)
Since Google is starting to charge for storage starting in June, I installed it on my Yunohost server to check it out.
If interested in my setup, click below.
> **[Photoprism for self-hosted photo management](https://blog.arkadi.one/p/photoprism-for-self-hosted-photo-management/)**
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> Photoprism: A true Google Photos replacement? In my quest to rid myself of all Google services, and self-host all that I can, I found Photoprism awhile back as a possible Google Photos replacement. I tried it before, but it felt slightly unpolished...
If you guys donāt use Photoprism, do you use any other self-hosted photo program?
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### Author:  [@Nesakko](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/Nesakko)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2020, 12:47am UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/photoprism-as-google-photos-replacement-my-experience/13510/2 "2020-12-05T00:47:06Z")
A very nice post, I didnāt know Photoprism at all, Iāll take a look at it on my side.
For self-hosted photo programs, I use Piwigo, itās clearly not as advanced as Photoprism, even if the web interface and themes looks old, itās more than enough for my general use. Whether itās to store my photos and images, or to share, it works very well and requires few resources
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### Author:  [@Tho](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/Tho)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2020, 9:00pm UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/photoprism-as-google-photos-replacement-my-experience/13510/3 "2020-12-06T21:00:59Z")
Are you interested on packaging it for Yunohost ? I think many people would be grateful š
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### Author:  [@arkadi](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/arkadi)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2020, 6:56am UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/photoprism-as-google-photos-replacement-my-experience/13510/4 "2020-12-07T06:56:45Z")
Sadly, I donāt know the first thing about packaging things. It is also run through Docker, so I donāt think it would be very worthwhile to āpackageā this.
To get the snazzy tile in the Yunohost online part, I think I just need to install this: [https://github.com/YunoHost-Apps/redirect\_ynh](https://github.com/YunoHost-Apps/redirect_ynh)
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### Author:  [@arkadi](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/arkadi)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2020, 7:24am UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/photoprism-as-google-photos-replacement-my-experience/13510/5 "2020-12-07T07:24:34Z")
What I will do, is write a setup guide for dummies like me using Yunohost. I just about finished setting up mine the way I like it.
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### Author:  [@Tho](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/Tho)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2020, 11:26am UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/photoprism-as-google-photos-replacement-my-experience/13510/6 "2020-12-07T11:26:19Z")
Yeaaah thank you !! š
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### Author:  [@arkadi](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/arkadi)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2020, 1:32am UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/photoprism-as-google-photos-replacement-my-experience/13510/7 "2020-12-13T01:32:37Z")
Here is a setup guide for Yunohost
I still canāt get it to properly redirect with NGINX. I am terrible at NGINX. Maybe somebody else can help me figure that out.
But if you follow my guide youāll be having it working locally.
> **[Photoprism on Yunohost Installation Guide](https://blog.arkadi.one/p/photoprism-on-yunohost-installation-guide/)**
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> This is a quick guide for people using Yunohost to install Photoprism.
> Full installation instructions in the Photoprism Documentation
> Before you Start Hard Drive: You should install Photoprism on a drive with at least the same amount of free space as...
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### Author:  [@tituspijean](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/tituspijean)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2020, 10:55am UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/photoprism-as-google-photos-replacement-my-experience/13510/8 "2020-12-13T10:55:26Z")
Thanks for the tutorial! Based on my experience with Photoprism and YunoHost on a small VPS:
> 1. Open Ports in your Router/Firewall
> `sudo yunohost firewall allow Both 2342`
> Router, do it like you did before for Yunohost.
> NOTE: Is this necessary? Not sure.
It is indeed not necessary, and actually dangerous since people could go to `yourdomain.tld:2342` and bypass the SSO.
> ERROR: I can access domain.tld/photos but just shows a massive Photoprism logo.
My guess is that PhotoPrism expects to be installed at the root of a domain, so if you install the Redirect app on `photo.domain.tld`, path `/`, it will work. I have just tested that on my server.
_Maybe_ you could have it working by setting `domain.tld` and path `/photo` for the Redirect app _while_ having set `PHOTOPRISM_SITE_URL: "https://domain.tld/photo"` in the `docker-compose.yml`. I will leave it to you to test it. š
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### Author:  [@arkadi](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/arkadi)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2020, 6:49am UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/photoprism-as-google-photos-replacement-my-experience/13510/9 "2020-12-14T06:49:08Z")
Got it! Will update my tutorial. Thanks!
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### Author:  [@polochon](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/polochon)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2020, 8:49am UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/photoprism-as-google-photos-replacement-my-experience/13510/10 "2020-12-15T08:49:52Z")
Thanks for sharing!
I also use piwigo, but photoprism seems very interesting!
2 questions:
- is it possible to see .mp4 videos? Photoprism talks only about AVC1 [https://docs.photoprism.org/user-guide/organize/video/](https://docs.photoprism.org/user-guide/organize/video/)
- how is the android app? Piwigoās one is (almost) only a viewer, and bulk upload is not possible.
Polochon
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### Author:  [@arkadi](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/arkadi)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2020, 1:37pm UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/photoprism-as-google-photos-replacement-my-experience/13510/11 "2020-12-16T13:37:59Z")
1. AVC1 is a codec for mp4s. It uses ffmpeg internally to transcode movies to mp4 with AVC1 codec. The only problem Iāve had with videos are my MJPEG videos from about 2017 made with my old Canon powershot.
2. There is no app yet, but it works just great in a web browser though.
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### Author:  [@polochon](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/polochon)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2020, 8:27am UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/photoprism-as-google-photos-replacement-my-experience/13510/12 "2020-12-17T08:27:01Z")
Thanks for your repy, I should test it!
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### Author:  [@arkadi](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/arkadi)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2020, 4:09am UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/photoprism-as-google-photos-replacement-my-experience/13510/13 "2020-12-22T04:09:06Z")
Updated tutorial:
**Remove Floating Yunohost Button**
The floating navigation button is very intrusive when using Photoprism on mobile. It gets in the way, so the best thing is to disable it.
_sudo nano /etc/nginx/conf.d/photos.domain.tld/redirect.conf_
Comment out these lines:
_#Include SSOWAT user panel._
_#include conf.d/yunohost\_panel.conf.inc;_
_#more_clear_input\_headers āAccept-Encodingā;_
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### Author:  [@henicosa](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/henicosa)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2021, 4:17pm UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/photoprism-as-google-photos-replacement-my-experience/13510/14 "2021-11-29T16:17:02Z")
Hey arkadi,
any long time experience? I would like to take a look at your guide but it is not available anymoreā¦ Would it bother you to bring it online again?
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### Author:  [@arkadi](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/arkadi)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2021, 5:00am UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/photoprism-as-google-photos-replacement-my-experience/13510/15 "2021-11-30T05:00:06Z")
Sorry. I recently switched my blog to Hugo. I updated the links above.
Photoprism is working splendidly for me. We have facial recognition now!
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### Author:  [@DaniJohni](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/DaniJohni)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2021, 11:23pm UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/photoprism-as-google-photos-replacement-my-experience/13510/16 "2021-12-12T23:23:07Z")
Hey,
The links are still not working, would love to read your blog š.
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### Author:  [@arkadi](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/arkadi)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2021, 2:48am UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/photoprism-as-google-photos-replacement-my-experience/13510/17 "2021-12-13T02:48:44Z")
link up! any questions, let me know.
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### Author:  [@agichim](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/agichim)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2021, 10:15am UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/photoprism-as-google-photos-replacement-my-experience/13510/18 "2021-12-13T10:15:06Z")
Hi,
This question is more related to docker.
I canāt install docker by simply doing `sudo apt install docker-compose`. Reading through docker docs it seems I have to first install Docker engine and continue with the repo installation.
Any advice on this?
I donāt want to just simply install docker on a VPS with Yunohost installed. Iām too new to this and Iām unsure of what could break.
On the other hand, Iām very keen on installing docker as Iād like to install another app, paperless-ng and your tutorial, @arkadi for Photoprism is really good to try and replicate for paperless-ng.
Cheers
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### Author:  [@arkadi](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/arkadi)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2021, 12:01pm UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/photoprism-as-google-photos-replacement-my-experience/13510/19 "2021-12-13T12:01:13Z")
Docker wonāt break Yunohost, donāt worry. Docker is quite self-contained. If it does mess something up, reboot, and uninstall docker.
> **[Install Docker Engine on Debian](https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/debian/)**
>
> Instructions for installing Docker Engine on Debian
As many docker services will caution, make sure you donāt set your docker apps to āautorestartā until youāve tested it works.
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### Author:  [@Zinkie](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/Zinkie)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2022, 3:31am UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/photoprism-as-google-photos-replacement-my-experience/13510/20 "2022-01-10T03:31:18Z")
Iām really interested in PhotoPrism mainly for itās ability to automatically recognize people. Most of my photos are on my Yunohost Nextcloud install, which is accessible via webdav. I see that Photoprism can access webdav mounts. Do you know if itās possible for Photoprism to just tag images in a way that Nextcloud can read? Iād love for my family to just be able to click on the āKidsā tag in Nextcloud and have it automatically show all of the photos of my kidsā¦
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