Photos on the web

The web app is your Opensolr Photos library in a browser, on a computer, a tablet or a phone. It shows the same index the Android app fills, so the photos, your tags, the people you named and the places are all there. The pictures themselves come from your own backup storage, an S3 bucket or a WebDAV folder.

1. Go to photos.opensolr.com.
2. Press Sign in. The page asks you to pass a captcha, then for the address of your Opensolr account and its two-factor code: the one from your authenticator app, a recovery code, or a code sent to your phone as a text message when the account keeps a number for it. Without two-factor authentication on the account, this page does not open at all.
3. Your library opens and the browser stays signed in for 12 hours of use. Sign out, in the person menu, ends it at once.
4. From the Opensolr control panel, Services › Opensolr Photos in the top menu opens it in a new tab. That item is shown only when your account has a Photos index with photos in it.

An Opensolr account keeps one Opensolr Photos index, whichever phone made it, so there is nothing to choose: every phone of the account and this page work on the same library.

• A Photos index. It is made the first time you sign in with the Android app. Without one, the web app says No Photos library yet and links to the app.
• A backup backend, for the pictures. Without one, the library still lists and searches everything, but the grid shows plain placeholders and the viewer says the item is on your phones. Set it up on the Backup screen or in the phone app.

• The top bar holds the search line, Upload, and the four screens: Photos, Map, Stats and Backup. On a narrow screen the four screens move to a bar at the bottom.
• Each screen has an address of its own: /, /map, /stats, /backup and /account. A reload stays where you are, a link can be kept, and the browser's back and forward buttons move between the screens.
• The person icon at the top right opens your email, Account and search tuning, the Opensolr dashboard, this documentation, and Sign out.
• The Opensolr Photos name at the top left clears the search and the filters and goes back to the whole library.