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.
Google Photos will no longer sync with third-party digital photo frames
Submitted 1 month ago by doopinglouie@feddit.org to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.theverge.com/news/623306/google-photos-digital-photo-frame-auto-sync-going-away
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jodanlime@midwest.social 1 month ago
Xanza@lemm.ee 1 month ago
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.
Anivia@feddit.org 1 month ago
I’m sorry, but then you are the minority. AI image categorization and face recognition is amazing for finding specific pictures quickly
LKC@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Those features can be disabled to ease up on resources.
ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
I got it running on a raspberry pi and have disabled the machine learning parts in the docker compose file. Works great.
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
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 VM and a few LXC containers. It does the job just fine with more than enough overhead.
apostrofail@lemmy.world 1 month ago
a self-hosted* Google Photos* replacement
Knossos@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This is the way.
Check out Immich Kiosk as an example for image frames.
fxdave@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
The only problem is, my internet’s upload speed is slow as hell.
VonReposti@feddit.dk 1 month ago
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.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
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.
AtariDump@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I was still using Picasso desktop up until about a year ago. I only stopped because the software doesn’t support HEIC.
a_cuddly_fox@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Damn. I miss Picasa. It was a powerful tool too.
const_void@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Stop using Google products. Uninstall Chrome, delete Gmail, etc.
Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Sounds like another reason to keep dumping google crap
scotmartin@feddit.org 1 month ago
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.
mustbe3to20signs@feddit.org 1 month ago
Sounds like a Nest Frame is preparing for release to me
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
You shouldn’t be trusting google to store your photos anyways.
pastermil@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Or third party, really…
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
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.
Ulrich@feddit.org 1 month ago
Immich FTW
jeena@piefed.jeena.net 1 month ago
So I know that it has a API, but do 3rd party digital photo frames support it?
Ulrich@feddit.org 1 month ago
I mean you could put a stand on an old tablet. Personally I just put it on the TV.
PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I just have an old tablet and I access Immich locally via browser and play a shuffled slideshow in full screen.
flightyhobler@lemm.ee 1 month ago
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
Zachariah@lemmy.world 1 month ago
sbv@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
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.
shrodes@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Sidenote, are these frames any good? Aura seems to advertise on a few podcasts I listen to but I’m curious how people in the real world feel about them
scotmartin@feddit.org 1 month ago
I can tell you it’s a very good digital picture frame for my needs that gets less convenient with this change by Google. I have one and gave one to my parents. This feature allows everyone with access to a shared Google photo album to contribute without an extra account or software and my parents get pictures of their grandchildren and what not. Also since the frame does nothing else but display pictures and play short videos it only needs to be plugged in and it does it’s thing. It is quite wonderful to be honest. It is a shame that Google is taking this joy away.
thisphuckinguy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Fucking Google.
scotmartin@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
Got an email from Aura saying they are working with Google to keep the functionality. I wish they were working on a Nextcloud integration instead. Anything to protect themselves from Google I’m the future.
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Because of course it won’t
NRay7882@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The enshittification must flow.