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Phobox on a Raspberry Pi

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Nick edited this page Jul 14, 2019 · 4 revisions

The Raspberry Pi is a great device to have small local server. Are you interessted in to store your photos on a local network server. With a raspberry pi and phobox you get a cheap and easy solution.

The possible setup

The following diagram shows the simplified setup for phobox and a raspberry pi. All devices are in the same wifi and get access of the phobox by calling the ip address of the RPi and port 8080.

raspberry pi setup

Installation

  1. Get a RPi and install the latest rasbian
  2. Get the phobox installation script in the raspberry pi:
    • execute on raspberry wget https://github.com/phoboxhq/phobox-packaging/raw/master/phobox-on-raspberry-pi.sh
  3. Run the script:
    • execute on raspberry bash phobox-on-raspberry-pi.sh

The startup on a RPi takes a while, please be patient. After that phobox runs smooth.

  • Startup on RPi 2 -> ~3-4 minutes
  • Startup on RPi 3 -> ~2 minutes
  • Startup on RPi 4 -> I don't have this device 😥
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