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Hey community! I'm looking for a #selfhosted alternative to Google Photos for my family. I'm interested in something with an easy to use UI, automatic face tagging, multi-user support (including shared albums and, if possible, automatically sharing photos of designated faces), and a good mobile app that supports automatic syncing with device photos.

I think I've narrowed the options to #NextCloud Memories and #LibrePhotos. Does anyone have any experience with using either as a Google Photos replacement? Can you speak to how you like them, how you decided on them, or anything that might help the choice?
nexcloud is there: https://github.com/nextcloud/photos
Hot damn, I was aware of Immich, but didn't realize it was this popular! My concern with Immich right now is its warning that it's still under heavy dev and shouldn't be relied on as a daily driver.


Dang, what a Thursday surprise: Home Assistant has released an application that seamlessly integrates with the HA platform and enables music playback from multiple streaming services (including a local media library or self-hosted music server) to multiple target devices.

I strongly suspect that in the next year, we'll see the Home Assistant team announcing their own, local-only smart speaker device: something that can integrate with Home Assistant, process spoken commands (using Voice Assistant), and play back music (using Music Assistant). It seems to be what the organization has been building toward.

#homeassistant #smarthome #selfhosted #SelfHosting
The beauty of the open-source community of hackers and the Open Home Foundation's values of user choice is that whether or not HA puts out such a product, once the supporting pieces are in place, it also means anyone else could work toward that end. (Indeed, some of the entries in Home Assistant's recent community voice assistant contest were voice assistant satellites. Looking at the categories in that contest, it's hard not to see it as a bit of talent scouting for future plans.)

I have my fingers crossed for the polish that a professionally produced device might bring, but I also love that the pieces are there for an enterprising hacker to share open-source circuit board schematics and 3D printer files for DIY'ing a similar device, or for a well-known community content creator to make and sell their own device to fit that niche (à la Everything Presence One).

It strikes me just how much of a contrast this is with the closed ecosystems of... well, every other tech company today. God, it's refreshing.
I'm excited about this!

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