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ioPix photos

A web app for a photo library, for browsing, searching and managing photos from any browser. It started as a web companion for a digiKam library, and works just as well without digiKam: point it at a folder of photos and it keeps the library itself.

ioPix Explore: library totals, photos from this day in past years and a shuffle of older ones

The full ioPix guide is at iopix.net; this page is the short version.

What it does

  • Browse by date, folder, album, person, place and tag; a viewer with an info panel (rating, caption, faces, tags, location); a map of every geotagged photo; places worked out offline from GPS positions.
  • Search by what is in the photos (content search), by text in them, by objects and faces, with models that run on your own server. Each feature is optional and downloads its model when you turn it on.
  • Edit ratings, titles, captions, tags, dates, locations and faces, written to sidecars or into the files, the way digiKam writes them, with an edit log and undo for every change.
  • People: name the faces in your photos; with ioContacts, a person can be a contact's photo.

The ioPix viewer with its info panel

On its own

ioPix is a complete photo app. It needs the photos (a folder, read-only unless you turn on editing), a MariaDB or MySQL database for what it builds, and the Shared ioSuite database for its accounts. digiKam is optional.

With the other apps

  • ioContacts can link a contact to a person named in ioPix; the face becomes the contact's photo.
  • ioSuite shows photos taken on this day in earlier years on the ioPix tile, and a strip of photos under the tiles.
  • The start page's search box searches ioPix too.

Install
Proxmox VE bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/avandeputte/iopix/main/proxmox/ct/iopix.sh)"
Docker docker-compose.yml: the image ghcr.io/avandeputte/iopix, with a MariaDB service
Any Linux or Mac git clone https://github.com/avandeputte/iopix && cd iopix && ./setup.sh
Port 8600
Source github.com/avandeputte/iopix

The Proxmox installer bind-mounts the photo folder (and digiKam's database folder) into the container. See iopix.net › Install for digiKam on SQLite or MariaDB, the AI models and the album roots.