My Photo Folder

A simple service to run on your home server to keep your family photos and videos organized and in good mood.

The idea

You probably already have a folder (probably a shared one) where all your media files go. It worked well in old times when you have to copy photos from your camera. But everything got more complicated when mobile devices came into play and its now really hard to keep all media accessible from one place and organized.

MPF will help to perform 2 things: it will copy your photos/videos to the folder where you'd like all files to be and it will populate it via web service to your local network.

How it works

1. To install clone repo and run build.sh

$ git clone https://github.com/serafxxx/MyPhotoFolder.git
$ cd MyPhotoFolder
$ ./buid.sh

2. Set MPF_PHOTOS_PATH env variable to point to the folder with your files. The folder could already have your collection of home photos/videos, it will stay on its place. MPF wouldn't move any files from/inside MPF_PHOTOS_PATH folder.

3. To add new files to your folder run import. MPF will copy files to autoimport folder inside MPF_PHOTOS_PATH (autoimport folder will have structure based on dates)

$ flask copy_media --from-path="/path/to/new/files"

4. Another way is to put your files inside MPF_PHOTOS_PATH manually in any subdirectory you like and run import from MPF_PHOTOS_PATH itself. MPF will scan your folder, ignore old files and analyse new files. In this way new files would be available through the web interface.

$ flask analyze_lib