https://github.com/bpatrik/pigallery2 is something I have moved to from Immich, but actually only because Immich didn't let my HDD go to sleep anymore. I do like it though, it is a bit simpler.
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Just wanted to add, pigallery2 is quick and looks pretty good
I'm standing up immich alongside for comparison (have to do a bit of extra before I can deploy), but pigallery is fast, easy and works - which are all easier said than done!
Awesome, thanks for the rec I'll check it out!
What's your hesitation with Immich? Try it out and with a small subset of your collection and see how you enjoy it before moving everything.
Honestly just seems way more hefty in reqs, I don't usually give 6GB or more to an lxc or VM (just to hit the bare minimum). The host i would put it on has 24GB in total and does other stuff as well, and it only has 8 cores on it.
Immich recommends 8GB+ and 4 cores, the db to be on a local ssd, etc, which seems like I'd need to pick up another whole machine to run it.
I run the immich container stack on a vm with 4GiB memory and 2 cores, with db on local disk and external libraries over smb, and it runs perfectly fine. I offload the machine learning jobs to another sometimes-on machine, sometimes, but don't really need to unless I'm dumping thousands of new images into the external library at a time and want it all to process quickly.
Thanks! Another person just posted similar, so I'm going to give Immich a shot and see how it goes. If I can pass off CV/ML elsewhere that's even better, I have a workstation for media tasks/editing I can use which would work out great
I think those reqs are assuming full computer vision features. I must've disabled them because my entire docker LXC is using less than 4GB, of which Immich is only one of the containers its running.
Well thats good to know, thanks!
If you are already hosting Nextcloud, the Memories app might fit your needs well.
Immich definitely isn't a bad option either. It doesn't take ton of resources, has a clean user interface and is multiplatform. Just like Coolie4 said, you can just try it out with a small collection first before committing to anything.
If you don't want them on cloud providers because you're not comfortable them being able to see those pictures, you can also pay for Ente.
Self hosting Ente is also an option, which is what I use for my family
~~You might also be able to get away with hosting something like Seafile and use directories as albums. But you won't get random shuffling in that case~~ (My bad I can't read. This isn't much better than what you're doing currently)
Maybe you can use some client to navigate your share in a more pleasant way instead of hosting something new? I never tried that so I can't recommend anything for that unfortunately