HomeGallery

Note: since i don't use this service anymore, this page might be not updated.

HomeGallery is a nice photo gallery to be self-hosted. It support AI and many other features.

It comes with Docker and bare-metal instructions, which i like very much. Also it supports base-url's too.

The reverse-geocoding and AI stuff is accessed via public APIs on api.home-gallery.org specially for low-powered devices, but if your server can support it, you can also self host this part using Docker/Podman.

Full documentation is well maintained and csan be found here.

Create a homegallery user as a memeber of the photos group:

useradd -d /deposito/daemons/homegallery -m -g photos homegallery
su - homegallery
curl -sL https://dl.home-gallery.org/dist/latest/home-gallery-latest-linux-x64 -o gallery
chmod 755 gallery

Installing the API server is ismpler using a container, do use the following docker-compose.yml:

docker-compose.yml

version: "3.9"
services:
  api:
    # custom build via
    #build: packages/api-server
    image: xemle/home-gallery-api-server
    environment:
      # TensorflowJS backends
      # - cpu: slowest and best support
      # - wasm: good perfromance for arm64 and amd64 platforms
      # - node: best performance on amd64 platform
      #- BACKEND=cpu
      #- BACKEND=wasm
      - BACKEND=node
    ports:
      - "3023:3000"

Note that you should not create a specific network for the API server to ensure it works with the non-containerized server.

Then the usual:

podman compose pull

Full configuration is here.

First of all, run HomeGallery to let it initialize the configiuration:

./gallery run init --source ~/Pictures

Now you can edit the /data/daemons/homegallery/.config/home-gallery/gallery.config.yml. In detail, you will want to edit at least the following values:

gallery.config.yml

extractor:
  apiServer:
    url: http://localhost:3023
    timeout: 30
    concurrent: 5

server:
  port: 3022
  host: '127.0.0.1'
  BasePath: /gallery/

Please note that for BasePath to work, the trailing / is required!

Example NGINX configuration:

gallery.conf

location /gallery/ {
        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:3022/;

        proxy_http_version 1.1;
        proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
        proxy_set_header Connection 'upgrade';
        proxy_set_header Host $host;
        proxy_cache_bypass $http_upgrade;
}

Refer to The Reverse Proxy concept for more details.

For the API container, to start it, and set it up on boot, as usual follow my indications Using Containers on Gentoo, so link the user-containers init script:

ln -s /etc/init.d/user-containers /etc/init.d/user-containers.homegalleryapi

and create the following config file:

/etc/conf.d/user-containers.homegalleryapi

USER=homegalleryapi
DESCRIPTION="The homegallery APIs"

Add the service to the default runlevel and start it now:

rc-update add user-containers.homegalleryapi default
rc-service user-containers.homegalleryapi start

For the web part, following my Custom User Services, in e you need symlinks for the server:

cd /etc/local.d ln -s _servicer.sh 44-homegallery--service.start ln -s _servicer.sh 44-homegallery--service.stop

And the associated service support file /data/daemons/homegallery/service_homegallery_start:

service_homegallery_start

COMMAND="/data/daemons/homegallery/gallery"
ARGUMENTS=(run server)

Ensure the server starts after the container.

See here:

kill gallery
podman compose down
podman compose pull
mv gallery gallery.old
curl -sL https://dl.home-gallery.org/dist/latest/home-gallery-latest-linux-x64 -o gallery
chmod 755 gallery
podman compose up -d
./gallery run import
./gallery run server &