Ok been moving slowly with this but I have a week off work so I have some time to mess with stuff.

#Nextcloud is working fine, I’ve disabled #iCloud contacts and hidden most calendars on my devices (can’t disable it completely yet, due to shared calendars) and I’m only using the Nextcloud versions now.

Currently setting up Nextcloud’s Mail app so I can access my #Fastmail email from there. Fastmail has a decent web UI, but my contacts are in Nextcloud and there’s no live sync for contacts with Fastcloud.

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OK so I just looked at the system requirements for the Recognize app: 4GB RAM.

My container has 2GB. 😅

I could give it more but I'm not sure I care about faces and landmarks tbh.

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Hmm, well since I restarted the container the second time it's been fine, but I think there's a scheduled task to scan for faces etc so I'm not confident it's gonna stay up once that kicks in.

I'll leave it going for now and see what happens.

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Well, the Memories UI is nice but yeeeah my poor server is not doing well with the processing load. 😅 I uploaded 600 pics and it maxed out the container’s memory allocation and it stopped responding. Twice. CPU was fine though.

The web UI is nice enough, it has a timeline view, the map view works well and uses Open Streetmap, it seems to have all the album and tagging features I use. I don’t really use the face and landmark scanning features in iOS Photos but it’s nice on occasion. The web app on iOS is ok (although can’t say how well it would run with my entire library uploaded!).

I think I’ll disable it for now (since my server can’t cope) and try #Immich, see how I like that. If that works better on the hardware I have, I’ll stick with that. If it’s no better I guess I need to get different hardware to run my photo library… or stick with an online solution.

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Thanks to @lothar for pointing out the "Memories" app in #Nextcloud which seems to be a way better UI for photos, more akin to the Photos app in iOS.

I just installed it, had to also install and configure other apps eg "Recognize" for face recognition and “Preview Generator”. No big deal but it would be nice if this stuff was bundled.

There are warnings about the face recognition being resource-hungry. Also need to increase the amount of storage for my NextCloud container. 😅

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Now my contacts, calendars and notes are in there, I’m tempted to try #Nextcloud photos instead of #Immich, people seem to like it and it would save me spinning up another container.

There’s no official Nextcloud photos app, the Nextcloud files app is what handles the background uploads from your camera roll, but for browsing you either get the files interface in that app (yuk) or you use the web UI.

I might stick a bunch of photos in there (not my whole library) and see how I get on with it.

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I really wanted my data stored on my own server, so I tried again on my local Proxmox machine, installed #Nextcloud via docker this time and reverse proxy is working, finally! 🥳

Also managed to get the data location set to a share on my #Unraid box, and I’m logging in seamlessly via #Authelia.

Although I am seeing an error about WebDAV now… 🙄

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A bonus: I can use the Remotely Save plugin to sync #Obsidian on my iPhone to a folder in NextCloud via WebDAV, and they’re just .md files so the NextCloud Notes app reads them just fine in the browser. There are some Obsidian specific things that don’t work, but they’re totally readable and editable.

I created a new vault to test, so not much in there, but it seems to work pretty well and it’s way less faff than the SyncThing method I’ve been using with iOS.

https://github.com/remotely-save/remotely-save

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I think #Nextcloud will work just fine. There’s a LOT of apps/plugins you can install for all kinds of thjngs, I’ve enabled one for grabbing recipes from websites and importing the steps and ingredients without the mandatory opening essay.

But the important stuff (contacts and calendars) seem to be working as expected. I’ve disabled the iCloud version on my phone and tested adding and deleting stuff, all working as expected.

Just have to decide if I’m happy keeping it on my paid VPS… I don’t pay for much storage and was hoping to use this for files/documents too. 🤔 I really would rather this was running at home. I’ll have another go with Docker on Proxmox I think.

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I’ve been fiddling with #NextCloud for the last little while, I’m going to test it as my main account for contacts and calendars for a while before I delete the data from iCloud.

I installed it on my home server on Proxmox, which I use for a lot of other stuff with no problems, and it works via local IP address but I just couldn’t get it to work with a secure remote connection via Nginx Proxy Manager, which makes it kinda useless.

I installed it on my Unraid server (which stores my media files) and it works remotely, but that machine is kinda sluggish and I don’t want to be using system resources for this.

Then @aj pointed out that Yunohost lets you install Nextcloud, and I already use that for my Mastodon server so it was super easy to set up (once I updated Yunohost).

Exported my data from iCloud, importing it to Nextcloud now. Contacts worked fine, already signed in via CardDAV, super simple.

Some of my calendars worked fine, but my primary one is taking forever to import, seems to have stalled… might be too much data, but the file isn’t that big. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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