Jan "Jenkings" Škoda - blog

Finally, I set up my server to serve my photo archive in a "civilised" way.

I started building a photo archive as it was a general purpose buyin server. So I sort it by my own, just by samba shares, and sort all the photos into folders manually to keep it under control.

I was still wondering about a way to deploy any media server to access photos in a better way than just directory listing. I always wanted to get Photoprism working on my TrueNAS, but I was unable to deploy it properly as it always got stuck while deploying the app container. I tried it for at least the tenth time just in case it would work, and now it accidentally worked. So I deleted it and tried again, as the try was with default setups. So I set up the "originals" folder at the root of my photo library and made it read-only to make sure it would not corrupt my files. The thumbnails and other stuff is stored on the system disc as it is not needed. Photoprism is now indexing the folders and photos, but it looks like it is working and the photos are starting to appear in the dashboard.

I think it would take several hours or maybe days to index the whole archive, but I think it would work in the end.

When it would be finished, I would like to make some more parts of this media server work, asi some AI face recognition and filtering, and some more advanced indexing opoturnities, to make it even more useful...

So, I keep hoping, but it still looks good.