Using with Nextcloud

Photoview can be configured to grab media from Nextcloud.

Locating Nextcloud files on the filesystem

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. Files uploaded by users are located inside their respective folders.

Now find the path where your Nextcloud media is located and copy it as we will need it later. The path may look something like this:

~/nextcloud/data/example_user/files/Photos

Configure Photoview

The next step will be to add this path to the desired Photoview user.

Adding path as a Docker volume

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 at the end instructs Docker to mount the folder in read-only mode.

Now restart the docker container.

Add path to Photoview user

You can now add the new path to 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 as described 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. Pictures and videos from Nextcloud will appear in Photoview.

Keep Photoview updated automatically

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.