Phobox

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What is phobox?

Phobox is a small tool to extend your local picture storage with a bunch of connectivity features. It starts a lightweight server process, which you allows to access your pictures over a graphical user interface or a REST-API. Moreover you can organize your files and create collections of the best photographs.

I developed phobox to solve three main problems in my picture workflow:

• organize new pictures from camera to the correct directories
• get a simple and fast access to the pictures on my smartphone at home
• search for pictures

Features

• Automatic picture organization in the file directory
• Browse your pictures on different devices in the same wifi
• Prevents the import of duplicate images
• Tagging your pictures
• Searching for pictures by name or TAGs
• Creating albums
• Statistics
• Upload pictures from remote devices in the same wifi
• Password saved access
• Languages: English and German

Download

• Download the latest version from the github releases page.
• Docker images you get from docker-hub

Usage

Use it with graphical interface

1. Start the application with double click on phobox-.jar or java -jar phobox-<version>.jar in terminal
2. Set up the directory to your local pictures
3. Open a browser on your local machine or maybe a smartphone in the same wifi to the shown ip address
4. Enjoy your pictures

Commandline interface (maybe for raspberry pi or other headless systems)

1. Start the program with java -jar phobox-<version>.jar [ARGS]

usage: phobox
 -b,--backupDirectory <arg>   Sets the directory for backups
 -h,--help                    Prints this help
 -nw,--noWindow               Hides the application window for headless usage
 -p,--port <arg>              Sets the port for this application (default 8080)
 -s,--storage <arg>           Defines the main storage path
 -w,--watchDirectory <arg>    Scans this directory for new files

Importing new pictures

Phobox reads the phobox/import/ directory inside your specified picture directory. Each new readable picture will be processed. Phobox moves the files to the configured directory (if EXIF data exists) and creates thumbnails for a faster display on remote devices. Additionally you can define another watch directory to listen for new files (maybe a remote directory).

For small number of files you can use a upload function in the phobox front-end or the drag-and-drop area of the phobox window.

Requirements

Phobox is build on Java and just requires a JRE 1.8 or higher. The jar file is a standalone application and runs with java -jar phobox.jar. The tool runs on the raspberry pi with the Java ARM version great, too.

Build

The project can build with maven:

• build the phobox-server: cd phobox-server/ && mvn clean package
• build the complete phobox: mvn clean package

Contribute

Please try it out and leave issues if something goes wrong or you have a feature request. Pull requests are welcome, too 😊 Look here for more support possibilities

Made with ❤️ by Nick