Solved Piwigo - photo gallery application

[nebulon]

A photo gallery application (http://piwigo.org). Currently Cloudron has Lychee app, but after reviewing and trying that I find it extremely limited, basic to the point of not being useful.

Not being able to host photos is a major downside. I'd love to have a more featured photo management app available.

[msbt]

Updated the repo to the latest 2.9.4, as far as I can tell most of the things work.

I did not implement email just yet because I had no use for that, but maybe I can take a look at that soon.

https://git.cloudron.io/msbt/piwigo-app/ - LDAP, themes, plugins are working out of the box, but the users cannot be added to a specific group automatically, the groups filter doesn't work properly.

Best regards

[girish]

Great stuff! We will look into this soon.

[msbt]

https://git.cloudron.io/msbt/piwigo-app/
another update, now with email support! let me know if you need anything else.

[nebulon]

I've given it a spin over the weekend, due to its new version 2.10 release and it mostly works well. To push this forward, I've forked that repo into the cloudron group and added @msbt to the project as well. https://git.cloudron.io/cloudron/piwigo-app

[nebulon]

While writing the package tests, I found that there are two different login forms within the app and the redirection upon login is not consistent. @msbt do you know more about this issue?

[msbt]

well there is one login for the frontend (browsing) and one for the backend (administrative), is that what you mean? if you have an admin user and the setting enabled, you can switch from front to backend.

[nebulon]

I don't really understand the difference between frontend and backend here. I've made an upstream issue regarding this, as at least for me the flow is confusing to say the least https://github.com/Piwigo/Piwigo/issues/1138

[GustavoMarcante]

This would be very nice because Piwigo allows albuns inside albuns and groups and Lychee does not, what makes Piwigo much more useful.
@nebulon Any news about it?

[jdaviescoates]

@GustavoMarcante I'd also love this ASAP as my 2 yearly payment for my Flickr Pro account is due for renewal soon and I'd much rather self-host!

[jdaviescoates]

@nebulon apparently

The 2nd page is from when the gallery is empty. Right after a new install.

https://github.com/Piwigo/Piwigo/issues/1138#issuecomment-565769035

[girish]

@nebulon maybe we can add a dummy cloudron picture in each new install for some consistency for now?

[kuchengrab]

@nebulon said in Piwigo - photo gallery application:

Currently Cloudron has Lychee app, but after reviewing and trying that I find it extremely limited, basic to the point of not being useful.

I second this. We're currently experimenting with Lychee, but it is indeed a bit limited, especially if you need a proper photo database (with different versions of the same photo, automatically generated albums according to tags etc.).

If I understand correctly, it's not advancing at the moment because you need input from the Piwigo devs? @nebulon

[girish]

@kuchengrab yes, correct. I also left a note 20 days ago, no response.

[seekis]

Any progress on this? Last post looks a couple years old. I host my families shared photo library and nextcloud is not cutting it and lychee is too basic and doesn’t have a mobile app. Piwigo is mature, well put together, yes could use a UI refresh, but offers all the photo org and hosting features most people are looking for.

[girish]

@seekis When we tried to look into this last year, we found that piwigo had two completely different login screens and were trying to understand the reason for that. https://github.com/Piwigo/Piwigo/issues/1138 is the issue and if you can ping them there to get an answer, it would help.

[jdaviescoates]

@seekis see also PhotoPrism

[Neiluj]

Hi @girish - There have been a major update and two minor ones in the last 4 months. Might be worth revisiting ?
Unfortunately I lack the expertise to check this, but providing I have some time, I am always keen in helping.

I would value this as a great addition to Cloudron.

[girish]

@neiluj https://github.com/Piwigo/Piwigo/issues/1138 is still the issue. When configured with LDAP there are multiple screens. Though, we have to check with the latest version if this is sorted out.

[nebulon]

I have just published the initial version of the piwigo app package. Due to the lacking or broken upstream LDAP integration, I went ahead and just published it without LDAP for the moment. We will add this later once we have time to take a deeper look into this.

The forum category is at https://forum.cloudron.io/category/148/piwigo
As always please test the package and report back, so we can get this onto a stable path as soon as possible.