PhotoPrism® is an AI-Powered Photos App for the Decentralized Web.

It makes use of the latest technologies to tag and find pictures automatically without getting in your way. You can run it at home, on a private server, or in the cloud.

Photoprism installation instructions
Requirements:
Windows 10 or greater version 22H2 or greater
8GB of ram minimum
16gb or more recommended, especially when multiple applications are installed.

  1. Install Docker Desktop – Installation instructions can be found here.
  2. Purchase your Home cloud domain – You can purchase your Homecloud connector here.
  3. Download the homecld application. – Download it from here and run it.

  4. Login – You should now be presented with a login screen. Login using the same credentials you used to purchase your homecld connector. Click the blue login button.

  5. Installing a Homecld application – If this is the first time logging into homecld you should see a screen that says “no applications installed” click “install application”. If you already have existing connections you can bring up the same page by clicking the homecld tray icon and clicking install connector

  6. Installation screen – select photoprism in the dropdown of this screen and click install
  7. Installing the application – Wait till the installation is completed. It might take some time depending on the speed of your machine, so have patience. When finished click OK. A new window should pop up.
  8. Initial Login and changing the default password – You should now have a screen like the one below. If you do not, right click the homecld tray app, and select view applications.

    Click the blue underlined Photoprism Button. A browser window should pop up.You should see a login page asking for a username and password. Go ahead and login with the default username and password. username “admin” password “insecure”. Don’t worry, we will change the password in the next step.

  10. Change the password – scroll down the left hand column till you see a gear. click the gear and go to account>security and access>change password
  11. Installing connector for access anywhere – go back to the homecld tray app and click “view applications”. Now click “Add Connector”
  12. Install your Homecloud connector – Instructions for installing a Homecloud Connector can be found here.
    Green = Good – Your connector should now show up green. Now you should be able to access nextcloud from any computer or device in the world via your homecld domain. go ahead and try it.
  13. Adding Photos via Homecld Tray App – open the homecld tray app, click view connectors. click configure. Click share new folder, and browse to a folder that has pictures. You can add multiple directories, and subfolder scanning is supported.

  14. open photoprism – open photoprism in a browser, you should start to see your photos being added. If you do not, and you are sure you added a directory with photos, you can manually refresh by going to the indexing icon (film reel), and clicking on start indexing. Typically this is not needed, only refresh if pictures aren’t showing up