PiGallery2

This is a directory-first photo gallery website, optimised for running on low resource servers (especially on raspberry pi)

Live Demo

Live Demo @ heroku: https://pigallery2.herokuapp.com/

Install (on Raspberry Pi 1)

Install NodeJs

Download and extract

cd ~
wget https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.10.3/node-v6.10.3-linux-armv6l.tar.gz
tar -xzf node-v6.10.3-linux-armv6l.tar.gz

Copy it to /usr/local:

cd node-v6.10.3-linux-armv6l/
sudo cp -R * /usr/local/

Add to path. Add the following line to ~/.bashrc

PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin

Full node install description: https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/48303/install-nodejs-for-all-raspberry-pi

Install PiGallery2

Install from release

cd ~
wget https://github.com/bpatrik/pigallery2/releases/download/1.0.0-beta.3/pigallery2.zip
unzip pigallery2
cd pigallery2
npm install

Install from source

cd ~
wget https://github.com/bpatrik/pigallery2/archive/master.zip
unzip master.zip
cd pigallery2 # enter the unzipped directory
npm install

Run PiGallery2

npm start

To configure it. Run PiGallery2 first to create config.json file, then edit it and restart.

Feature list

• Rendering directories as it is
  • Listing subdirectories recursively
  • Listing photos in a nice grid layout
    • supporting most common image formats
    • showing tag/keywords, locations, GPS coordinates for photos
    • rendering photos on demand (on scroll)
• On the fly thumbnail generation in several sizes
  • prioritizes thumbnail generation (generating thumbnail first for the visible photos)
  • saving generated thumbnails to TEMP folder for reuse
  • supporting several core CPU
  • supporting hardware acceleration (sharp and gm as optional and JS-based Jimp as fallback)
• Custom lightbox for full screen photo viewing
  • keyboard support for navigation
  • showing low-res thumbnail while full image loads
  • Information panel for showing Exif info
  • Automatic playing
  • gesture support (swipe left, right, up)
• Client side caching (directories and search results)
• Rendering photos with GPS coordinates on google map
  • .gpx file support - future plan
• Two modes: SQL database and no-database mode
  • both modes supports
    • user management
    • password protection can be disabled/enabled
  • database mode supports:
    • faster directory listing
    • searching
      • instant search, auto complete
    • sharing
      • setting link expiration time
• Nice design - In progress
  • responsive design (phone, tablet desktop support)
• Setup page - In progress
• Markdown based blogging support - future plan
  • you can write some note in the blog.md for every directory
• bug free :) - In progress