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Using with Nextcloud |
Usage |
Photoview can be configured to grab media from Nextcloud.
All files uploaded to Nextcloud are located in the folder called data/ at the location where Nextcloud is installed.
Inside that folder you will find another folder for each Nextcloud user.
All files uploaded by a user is located inside their respective folders.
Now find the path to where your Nextcloud media is located, and copy it as we will need it later. The path could look somthing like this:
~/nextcloud/data/example_user/files/Photos
The next step will be to add this path to the desired Photoview user.
If you are not running Photoview in Docker you can skip this step.
Before the Nextcloud files can be accessed by the Photoview container, they must first be mounted as a volume.
For docker-compose this can be done by adding the volume to the docker-compose.yml configuration file for Photoview.
Open it up and under volumes: add a new volume like so:
- NEXTCLOUD_PATH:/nextcloud:ro
Replace NEXTCLOUD_PATH with the path you copied in step 1.
The /nextcloud path dictates where this mount can be accessed from within the container, this will be important for the next step.
The :ro in the end, instructs Docker to mount the folder in read-only mode.
Now restart the docker container.
You can now add the new path the desired user from the Settings page,
by clicking on the Edit button next to the user.
From there you can add the new path.
If you mounted the volume like in the previous step, the path will be /nextcloud.
When the path has been added, you can click Save.
You can now scan the user and the pictures and videos from nextcloud will appear in Photoview.
If you don't want to press the Scan button manually each time you've added new files to Nextcloud, you can configure a periodic scanner to automatically scan for changes.