Ente Photos

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Ente is a self-hostable Google Photos alternative with S3 support and client for web and all major platforms.

The server API server (museum) and the web frontend (ente-web) can be deployed independently and are provided as two separate packages in nixpkgs. It is also possible to deploy only the API server and use a desktop or mobile client only, the frontend is not mandatory.

Setup

Following configuration will enable a basic API server instance.

services.museum = {
  enable = true;
  settings = { 
  # TODO add example
  };
  credentialsFile = "/path/to/secrets/creds.yaml";
  environmentFile = "/path/to/env";
};

To host the web client as well, the files from the frontend package (ente-web) can be directly served using a webserver like nginx or caddy.

services.nginx = {
  enable = true;
  virtualHosts."photos.example.com" = {
    enableACME = true;
    forceSSL = true;
    root = pkgs.ente-web;
  };
};

Tips and tricks

The web-client, the desktop-client and the mobile clients (iOS, Android) all allow using custom, self-hosted servers. To create an account or log into your own server Tap or click the logo in the welcome screen 7 times. This will bring up a setting where you can specify a non-official Ente API server.