SOLVED: Photo Gallery for Network Shares?
Posted: Fri May 05, 2017 10:32 am
Now that I have some photos uploaded to my Pictures network share, I'm trying to figure out a good way to share those pictures across devices in a neat and tidy fashion.
In my mind, the ideal scenario is the client side viewer would have the option to group the photos in the Pictures share by pre-existing image metadata (i.e. tags) as the folder layout might be disjointed due to the fact that I'm using it as a dumping ground for all camera devices.
I figured I have 2 main way so to accomplish this intent: (1) set up a DLNA server and use a DLNA client to view the files or (2) set up a web based photo gallery that could be viewed by any device with access to a web browser
I previously dabbled in setting up a photo gallery on my purchased web storage space using Piwigo and was fairly happy with the flexibility so I thought I'd first give that a go with my HDA.
The first snag I ran into is that it appears that Piwigo for Amahi doesn't have the built-in capability to point to pre-existing folders/pictures already on the same server. It acts just like the web server in that it wants me to upload photos to the Piwigo specific folders (which hardly makes sense because then I'll have 2 independent copies of the same information).
Parallel to that I tried playing around with a few DLNA compatible client apps (on an old iPad 2) after setting up the Serviio for Amahi DLNA app. Good news is that it was fairly painless to get the server to show the data on the iPad and the DLNA protocol does create some photo grouping based on timestamps. The bad news is that I can't figure out a way to sort by photo tags.There is a DLNA specific "play list" album but I get the impression that doesn't auto-populate information.
I feel like I'm missing something obvious about how I can set this up fairly easily. Any suggestions? Should I look at a different photo gallery web app? Can I point Piwigo to my network shares. I assume this would mean I will need to mount the share locally, but what needs to happen on the Piwigo side of things to see that share?
In my mind, the ideal scenario is the client side viewer would have the option to group the photos in the Pictures share by pre-existing image metadata (i.e. tags) as the folder layout might be disjointed due to the fact that I'm using it as a dumping ground for all camera devices.
I figured I have 2 main way so to accomplish this intent: (1) set up a DLNA server and use a DLNA client to view the files or (2) set up a web based photo gallery that could be viewed by any device with access to a web browser
I previously dabbled in setting up a photo gallery on my purchased web storage space using Piwigo and was fairly happy with the flexibility so I thought I'd first give that a go with my HDA.
The first snag I ran into is that it appears that Piwigo for Amahi doesn't have the built-in capability to point to pre-existing folders/pictures already on the same server. It acts just like the web server in that it wants me to upload photos to the Piwigo specific folders (which hardly makes sense because then I'll have 2 independent copies of the same information).
Parallel to that I tried playing around with a few DLNA compatible client apps (on an old iPad 2) after setting up the Serviio for Amahi DLNA app. Good news is that it was fairly painless to get the server to show the data on the iPad and the DLNA protocol does create some photo grouping based on timestamps. The bad news is that I can't figure out a way to sort by photo tags.There is a DLNA specific "play list" album but I get the impression that doesn't auto-populate information.
I feel like I'm missing something obvious about how I can set this up fairly easily. Any suggestions? Should I look at a different photo gallery web app? Can I point Piwigo to my network shares. I assume this would mean I will need to mount the share locally, but what needs to happen on the Piwigo side of things to see that share?