Stop using Google products. Uninstall Chrome, delete Gmail, etc.
Sounds like a Nest Frame is preparing for release to me
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.
That’s great when your photos have faces. Mine mostly don’t. Also they don’t come from my phone. So Google is also fairly useless.
That’s fair.
Those features can be disabled to ease up on resources.
I got it running on a raspberry pi and have disabled the machine learning parts in the docker compose file. Works great.
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.
I have it running on 4gb of ram. No problems!
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.
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This is the way.
Check out Immich Kiosk as an example for image frames.
The only problem is, my internet’s upload speed is slow as hell.
Self hosted doesn’t necessarily mean hosted at home. Some of my stuff is for example hosted in a French datacenter for redundancy. At one point it was my only server space since hosting at home wasn’t feasible at that time.
Because of course it won’t
The enshittification must flow.
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.
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.
Sounds like another reason to keep dumping google crap
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
You shouldn’t be trusting google to store your photos anyways.
Or any third party, really…
Well, you are going to have to trust someone to store your offsite backup unless you can afford a second house somewhere. It should be a backup service where you can encrypt the data before uploading it though.
You can trust your own relatives or friends though - as long as you encrypt the drive you give them. Doesn’t have to be a service.
Immich FTW
So I know that it has a API, but do 3rd party digital photo frames support it?
I just have an old tablet and I access Immich locally via browser and play a shuffled slideshow in full screen.
I mean you could put a stand on an old tablet. Personally I just put it on the TV.
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.
Fucking Google.
