Looking for an alternative to synology photos. I moved over to synology about 3 years ago and am now considering moving out of the synology ecosystem. I’m looking for something that has a decent android app, wifi syncing, shareable albums, all the standard stuff.

Edit: thanks for the many replies, I’ll likely move to nextcloud as I was planning on deploying that anyway as a synology drive replacement. I’ll look into immich as well.

  • @[email protected]English
    6•1 year ago

    Nothing beats Google Photos for me, personally.

    So I bought a used Google Pixel 1 (first gen) and use Syncthing to sync my camera roll from my phone to the Pixel 1.

    Google originally advertised the Pixel 1 as having unlimited cloud storage for life, so they have to stick to it. I don’t pay for Google storage but I’ve got at least 500gb stored in Google Photos (including all my RAW photos and my digitised VHS tapes).

    I’ll abuse this system until the Pixel 1 dies and I can’t get another one, then I’ll cry.

    • @pdxfedEnglish
      1•6 months ago

      Hey random user, I setup synchthing and have it uploaded from a pixel 5(last phone with unlimited storage).

      *New phone synchs to p5 bi-directionally I clear the storage on the p5 and now it’s stopped removing the photos from my new phone. I would expect it to delete the cloud backed-up photos from my p5 then deleted from the bi-directionally synched folder on P8. Am I missing something? Why would it have worked at first then stopped?

      Also any idea on the folder structure for backing up either storage/emulated/0/dcim/camera or storage/emulated/0/dcim/camera/camera? it seems to work when I synch just the /camera folder, but then if I download a picture from a messageing app or something and save it in the folder it will synch it but then not recognize it’s backed up on p5 and won’t delete it when I go to “clear storage space” on photos on new phone.