Pix

Do not use unless you know what you're doing - this project is a work in progress!

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UPDATE March 2017

Sorry I haven't been working on this recently, been super busy. I'm hoping to pick this up around the end of April as I should have more time then, thanks!

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Pix aims to be a self-hosted multi-user photo gallery solution similar to Google Photos. Give it a folder of photos and it will index them, so you get to stay in control of your photos on the file system.

Ongoing discussion on the future of this project at https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/5fwcvf/open_source_familypersonal_photo_gallery_software/

Road to v1

• Add folders of photos as libraries into Pix
• Basic viewing of folders with thumbnails
• Detail lightbox view for viewing photos
• Sorting photos by date and other sorting options
• Ability to add multiple users with access controls
• Responsive web frontend which works on mobile
• Index, generate thumbnails for, and display videos

After v1 roadmap

• Native mobile app
• Intelligent image tagging and face recognition

Try Pix

Pix is not working software and is not finished, but if you still want to give it a try, it's best to install Docker and Docker Compose.

1. Get Docker Compose: https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/

2. Clone this repository: git clone https://github.com/madjam002/pix.git

3. Run docker-compose pull

4. Use your favorite text editing tool to change the following values in the docker-compose.yml file

5. Volume Mounts: In the server and worker section add a mount for your photos:

   volumes:
   - "pix_data:/mnt/data"
   - "/YOURPHOTOSLOCATION:/YOURPHOTOSLOCATION"
   

6. Specify the IP address/domain you are running the server in the PIX_URL: section of the worker and server

7. Run docker-compose up -d

8. Then go to http://localhost:8080 to give it a try. You can scale the worker service to spread indexing and thumbnail generation across multiple cores or servers.

Building / running without Docker

Take a look at the Dockerfile for what dependencies you need on your system:

libcairo2-dev libjpeg62-turbo-dev libpango1.0-dev libgif-dev build-essential g++

Make sure you have Node >= 6 installed too.

• Clone this repo
• Run npm install in the root
• cd into packages/pix-web, run npm install and npm run build to build the static web assets
• cd into packages/pix-server, run npm install and npm run build to compile the server side JS
• Look at packages/pix-server/src/config.js to see what environment variables you need to set, or docker-compose.yml for examples. Make sure you have NODE_ENV set to production.
• Run server with node server.js and a worker instance with node worker.js
• Profit?

License

Licensed under the AGPL License.

View the full license here.