I’m running this Google Photos alternative for a week now, and I am pleasantly suprised.

• Face detection : spot on
• Responsiveness : fast!, even with a large library
• Android uploads : it just works! (I used Nextcloud before)
• Movies : plays smoothly (there is a cast button for movies and images)

The face detection had only 1 mismatch in my library.

Negatives?

Well maybe album management, it could be better or more flexible

Some search tests:

• Food – indeed found food
• Rum – found drinks
  (I changed search query to OCR, and it gave me images with the word RUM on it) !
• Dog – First ones are dogs indeed, after that other animals
• Smiling / Kissing works
• Hair/red/computer/music

Amazing results!

Features (some)

• Docker instance for simple upgrades
• Facial Recognition
• Hardware Transcoding
• Hardware-Accelerated Machine Learning
• Reverse Geocoding (see below)

Lets copy the rest of my photo libary to this server.
(Storage is on a 10Gbit fiberoptic iSCSI device)