How to install PhotoPrism
This is a complete step-by-step guide to install PhotoPrism on a Raspberry Pi 4. The installation of PhotoPrism is pretty straight forward. However, a Pi 3 or 4 is recommended to be able to use 64 bit mode and achieve a better indexing performance. I used a MacBook for my setup. The steps to flash…
Read this post ›Use an external SSD for your PhotoPrism instance
You should add an external drive to your PhotoPrism instance, because otherwise it will put all data on the SD card. I only use a pretty small 32 GB SD card for my PhotoPrism instance and save all other data to an external drive. Since SD cards have a limited life span this allows my data to be…
Read this post ›Configure PhotoPrism to use an external drive
This post explains how to configure your own PhotoPrism instance to use an external hard drive. To use an external drive in PhotoPrism , you need to first mount the drive and configure it to mount automatically . Afterwards you can configure PhotoPrism accordingly. Make sure the drive is mounted…
Read this post ›Automatically mount a drive on your Raspberry Pi
You should configure your Pi to automatically mount your drive on start-up. This avoids your data being missing after a reboot and having weird side effects. The automount is handled in the fstab file on your Pi. You can modify the fstab file to define the location where the storage device will…
Read this post ›How to mount an external drive on a Raspberry Pi
To mount an external drive on your Pi, a few steps are needed. Plug in the SSD Check if it is connected Your drive should be visible: 3.1. In my case, the SSD is formatted as exFAT, so I install the needed driver: 3.2. If you are using a NTFS file system, use this command: Run the following…
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PhotoPrism is a privacy friendly image gallery
PhotoPrism is a software for organizing a photo gallery. Using machine learning, it indexes and structures the pictures into different albums, allows searching etc. If you value your privacy, you probably don't like uploading your photos to Google. However, having a nice interface to back up and…
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We like ideas that support our point of view
Confirmation bias describes the tendency to prefer arguments and information that support your own point of view rather than opposing arguments. The human mind prefers arguments it agrees with, because we like to strengthen our own point of view. This is why we tend to live in our own filter bubble…
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