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Private digital photo frames? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Hazzard@lemmy.zip to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Christmas is coming, we recently had a newborn, and we aren't sharing pictures of them on social media. But of course, we'd like to share photos with family, and a digital photo frame seems like an ideal way to do that.

I'm considering a solution with Immich, and found ImmichFrame. This doesn't recommend making it available to the internet, however, but running it on a Raspberry Pi with only the images we intend to share this way seems like a reasonable amount of risk.

Regarding Immich Frame, how does it handle when the server is unavailable, when say, my IP address changes? Ideally, I don't want this gift to become a series of tech support problems, there's good reason I haven't offered family access to anything else I self host.

Also, what frames do y'all recommend? Not looking to break the bank here, as I may be buying several. I assume something simple and Android would be best, maybe even something that can have its OS replaced with stock? I'd hate to get stuck with something locked down and unworkable, or that introduces its own broad privacy/security issues.

Lastly, please feel free to suggest other alternatives. Maybe there's a solution that sends images encrypted and decrypts them on device, and doesn't require me to self-host Immich, for example?

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[–] bolapara@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm about to try this. I've ordered a Frameo picture frame that runs Android and supposedly you can use adb to sideload Immichframe and set it as the home app so it launches automatically. My Immich instance is on a private mesh network so I was going to configure the frame to autoconnect to the mesh network and only have permissions to access that one machine.

If I cannot get this to work, I'll fail back to just manually loading the pictures on an SD card and swap out the card for one with new pictures when I visit.

[–] Hazzard@lemmy.zip 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Very nice! Was looking at the exact same frames after doing some more research, a 10 inch frame for about as cheap as some empty frames I've seen, with documentation on the process provided by Immich Frame themselves.

Your private mesh network is an elegant addition to it as well, I may consider something similar. As mentioned in the post, Immich Frame doesn't recommend being exposed to the Internet, and just has support for a simple single password system. I still feel better about that than being in Frameo's database I know nothing about and would be paying suspiciously little for, but it's not exactly ironclad either.

Definitely let me know how it goes if you tackle it in the next week or so!

[–] bolapara@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago

I finally got around to doing this. I bought one of these. Here is a quick brain dump of the steps.

Enable the beta program in the frame settings and you'll get the USB debugging option.
Once you enable USB debugging, hook it up to your computer (usb-a to c, not c-c cable) and install the latest immichframe apk: adb install
You'll need a computer on the network where the frame will live that is kinda like a proxy to your immich server. I didn't initially figure this out.
Setup immich frame docker container on that machine. you'll need to configure your immich library credentials and which albums to serve, etc.
Then, in the immichframe settings on the frame, configure your host address of the machine running the docker container.
you can then disable the frameo app so that immichframe launches when the frame starts up. 'adb shell su' then 'pm disable net.frameo.frame'

that's basically it. the immichframe documentation is pretty sparse so I had to fumble around trying a bunch of different things before I could make this work.

Also, I was originally planning on getting tailscale running on the frame but that was a no-go. Plus, it was not needed in my case since I already had a system on tailscale at that location so I installed the immichframe server there and it connects over tailscale to my immich server.