URL and Interoperability

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OskarB wrote:

I am trying to determine if ReadyNAS Photos II could be of use to me, and have two quick questions:

 

1) URL

I understand the normal operation of the package assumes the Internet access will be via Netgear's server redirection from the url http://photos.readynas.com/<hostname>/<Photographer>. If I have a dynamic DNS setup that already directs some domain to my router, can I set up the access using that instead of via http://photos.readynas.com/...?

 

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Yes.  photos.readynas.com simply redirects you to the external IP/port reported from the Photos II app.
Photos II should ask your router for a port forward via UPnP, otherwise manually configure one to port 8086 on the NAS.
Access via http://external_ip:external_port/photos2/login.html

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OskarB wrote:

 

2) Album import/export

Is there any possibility to import an album from something like an XML file describing the image file names, captions and descriptions, in order to avoid creting a large number of already existing albums all over again via GUI? And conversly, can an album be "unloded" in a similar file/structure to make easied migration of some albums to some other hosting platform?

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Unfortunately there are no batch import and no export options in Photos II.  Closest to export would be manually retrieving the photos (stored in /<VOLUME>/.apps/photos2/user) and exporting the metadata from the MySQL database via SSH (mysqldump --socket=/<VOLUME>/.apps/photos2/run/mysqld.sock -uroot rnp2 > photos.sql)