HomeGallery is a Self-hosted AI-Powered Web Gallery Solution

Hazem Abbas

Nov 4, 2023 — 2 min read

Home-Gallery.org is a self-hosted open-source web gallery that allows users to browse personal photos and videos, featuring tagging, mobile-friendly interface, and AI-powered image and face discovery. It addresses privacy concerns by storing all private images and videos locally on a NAS at home, without relying on cloud services.

The gallery software aims to provide a fast user experience on mobile phones and helps users browse and rediscover forgotten memories from their complete media archive. It caters to computer-savvy users who prefer to solve their own problems and serve their local data without the use of cloud services.

Features

Endless photo stream via virtual scrolling
Video transcoding
Reverse image lookup (similar image search). If you have one sunset image, you can easily find other sunset photos in your archive without manual tagging
Face detection and search by similar faces
Expressive query language with and, or, not operands
GEO location reverse lookups
Simple mobile app through PWA support
Tagging, single and multi selection
Support of read only and offline media sources. Once the preview files are generated and their meta data are extraced, the original sources are not touched and required any more. So media from offline disk need to be extracted only once and the disk can stay offline on next runs
Media are identified by their content. Duplicated media (identical files byte-by-byte) are only processed once. Renaming is supported without recalulating previews etc.
Fast file changes detection such as add, removes, renames or moves
Static web gallery site export such as the demo gallery
Meta data export to XMP sidecar files
Stream photos and videos to Chromcast enabled TV devices
Runs on SoC such Raspberry PI

Platforms

Linux
Windows
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Docker

Install using Docker

Here is how to install HomeGallery using Docker.

mkdir -p data
alias gallery="docker run -ti --rm \
  -v $(pwd)/data:/data \
  -v $HOME/Pictures:/data/Pictures \
  -u $(id -u):$(id -g) \
  -p 3000:3000 xemle/home-gallery"
gallery init --source /data/Pictures
gallery run server

Then open http://localhost:3000/ , then run gallery -h on your terminal.

To configure your gallery head to: ./data/config/gallery.config.yml.

License

MIT License

Resources

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