milchreis/phobox repository overview

⁠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

⁠Graphical interface

1. Start the application
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

⁠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.

⁠Features

• Automatic picture organization in the file directory
• Browse your pictures on different devices in the same wifi
• 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