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I wouldn't follow the advice of using Immich. While its a great tool, growing fast and super polished, its currently aimed at photo backup from your android phone/tablet and is not a good pick for a family photo gallery.
To that end I would look into pigallery2 or the very good homegallery, which is still in early stages as well but also quite polished and already working great. They will not replace Immich, but will complete the workflow nicely.
My photo management flow (which includes your requirements, plus the capability to organize new photos over time) is here https://wiki.gardiol.org/doku.php?id=services:photomanagement if you are interested.
In general the flow is to buy or recycle a pc of anykind, install linux (optional, but recomendes), buy a domain you like from some registrar, setup some kind of remote access from outside to your home, and install the services you want.
The workflow mandatory includes hours spent trying and failing, and also having tons of fun in the process. Don't forget the WAF (Wife Appreciation Factor) which will determine how much fun you can have.
Last, i al documenting all my steps and proceedings while I run down my own selfhost rabbit hole in the above linked wiki (self hosted, ofc).
See you around, I guess!
I've been trying to find some good examples of how to structure the files, and whether to combine the photos from everyone or to keep them separate. Obviously there's different systems for everyone, but your method of syncing, tagging, and displaying/sharing photos is almost identical to how I've been wanting to go about it.
Do you mind sharing how you structure the photo files and naming in your Gallery directory?
I was thinking of implementing the Copyright tag to keep the data of the original phototaker, and then combine all the photos into a
Gallery/YYYY/MMstructure, with the filenames beingYYYYMMDD-CameraModel. There aren't many events we go to, so albums aren't a big priority, but on the occasion, I was thinking if using a folder likeMM-Eventin the respective year folder.I'm just putting my thoughts down because I don't often see this part of people's photo organizing.
I create folders with name like: /gallery/2024/03 - Trail Del Marchesato/
And put there all the photos related to that event.
Or more generic like: /gallery/2024/Winter To collect generic photos of that period.
So I divide by year and reason/event. Inside each use moves his own photos for that event, or they create their folders.
Tags do the rest.
Homegallery let's you view them by similar or tags, while pigallery2 let's you view them by the folder. Both together fits the bill