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Best Buy has 1TB ibi The Smart Photo Manager (WDBNHE0010BWT-HESN) for $39.99. Select free curbside pickup where stock permits.

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About this item:
  • Collect, organize, and privately share photos and videos with the people who matter most to you.
  • Collect all of your favorite photos and videos from your phone, computer, USB drives and popular cloud and social media accounts. (Social media and cloud storage services may be changed, terminated or interrupted at any time and may vary by country. User account registration may be required. )
  • Find exactly what you're looking for quickly using the simple-to-use app.
  • Privately share individual photos and invite others to add photos to shared Albums from vacations, weddings, and more.
  • Invite your closest friends and family to a private space called the inner circle where you can all post photos and videos for each other to see.
  • Stream from ibi to your TV with Fire TV, Roku, Google Chromecast and more.
  • Setup is a snap — plug in your ibi smart photo Manager, download the app and let ibi do the rest.
  • ibi is currently designed for US networks and services. The device is not labeled or packaged for retail sale outside of the United States
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ibi - The Smart Photo Manager with Wi-Fi - White Model:WDBNHE0010BWT-HESN $40 @ Best Buy

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/ibi-...Id=6382798 Shipping unavailable. Free curbside pickup where stock permits.


Meet ibi™, the smart photo manager that collects all of your favorite photos and videos from your phone, computer, USB drives and popular cloud and social media accounts in one place at home. ibi lets you privately share individual photos or entire albums from vacations, birthday parties, weddings and more with only those you choose.

Specs: https://www.meetibi.com/tech_specs
  • Space- 1 TB
  • Photos- 250,000+
  • or Videos- 100+ hr
Services available to ibi: https://ibisupport.sandisk.com/ap...a_id/21375
  • Mirror It
  • Roku Service
  • Fire TV
  • Apple TV
  • Social and Cloud Import service- Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, OneDrive (One Way Sync); Facebook, Instagram, Google Photos (Import)
Collect it all
Collect, organize, and privately share photos and videos with the people who matter most – all in one place.

Get it anywhere
Easily access all of your saved photos and videos anywhere with the ibi™ mobile, web, or desktop apps.

Share it privately
Privately share individual photos and invite others to add photos to shared albums from vacations, weddings, and more.

Simple to use
Quickly set up by plugging in, downloading the app, and creating an account.

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cheap photo storage. bad reviews on amazon. alot available on amazon waregouse for $34 each for a reason.
I use Photosync to sync to my server from iphone and android devices. Have been using it for 6 years. Would endorse over this system.




Photosync is basically a small piece of software you install on your server or any computer/laptop in your home network. Then for each device you want photos backed up from, you install an app. I use it on my Android and my wife's iPhone.

The software will automatically back up any new pictures that are on your phone (including camera gallery, whatsapp, MMS, screenshots, anything!) to the server. You can set parameters on when backups are done. I set it to backup anytime the phone is connected to Wifi and a power plug. You can also set it up to backup whenever the phone enters your home network, e.g. when you return home.

You can also choose to backup to Amazon cloud, Google drive, dropbox, or a bunch of other cloud services. You can use FTP, WebDAV, pretty much anything.

One last thing is that the author is very nice and responds directly to your emails. I have emailed him twice in the last few years and he worked me through fixes.

I would recommend Photosync highly. Mine is set up on my home server. Photosync sends pics to that server. Then a Synology device backs up the server. Family pictures are important to me -- I want a backup of a backup.

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lou2004
03-18-2021 at 01:48 PM.
03-18-2021 at 01:48 PM.
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well, the app found my unit right away but that doesnt mean we can get it to work.

ibi app failed at the "hit a snag" error when it attempted to add the user to the device. i kept trying like almost 10 times, until it worked. but it wasnt a smooth ride.

why did the app ask for my phone location?
the app did backup all the photos from my phone to ibi. btw my unit is connected to 5G wifi.
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03-18-2021 at 03:29 PM.
03-18-2021 at 03:29 PM.
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the app did backup all the photos from my phone to ibi. btw my unit is connected to 5G wifi.
just finished uploading about 5000 photo and video to my ibi. about 3 hrs at work.

however, on the pc explorer, they are all under 1 single root "backup" folder. i cant find them organized in folders and directories like its on the app. its a pain to view them with a slow windows 10 index connected to this device via drive mapping. its very hard to organize them now using my explorer. any better way?

5g wifi connection is out of our expectation. a great (new) feature to have Applause
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garyhgaryh
03-18-2021 at 07:24 PM.
03-18-2021 at 07:24 PM.
Quote from Lilyly :
just finished uploading about 5000 photo and video to my ibi. about 3 hrs at work.

however, on the pc explorer, they are all under 1 single root "backup" folder. i cant find them organized in folders and directories like its on the app. its a pain to view them with a slow windows 10 index connected to this device via drive mapping. its very hard to organize them now using my explorer. any better way?

5g wifi connection is out of our expectation. a great (new) feature to have Applause
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I did some research. The dum thing will show HEIC if you collect pictures from phone or Facebook etc. but if you copy photos to IBI through usb , HEIC will not show thumbnails.
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hopefully they add that thumbnails feature to the app. like qnap that needs to scan and generate thumbnails on the background for all new incoming image (any format).

took me like 10 tries to get it connected. it kept saying "we hit the snag..." and failed to connect the ibi. its the very last step. so even if you see the device has been found, connected. its not really working until you pass the "add your account to the device". this is where it fails. so if you pass that msg. its final and ready.

how can we ajust the sync setting? can we delete the photo on phones after its done syncing to save space? what if the ibi syncs back to the phone and empty all our folders because we already deleted the photos on the phones.
My pictures came from two iphones and an android. I did get all the thumbnails when viewed from the app, but what I noticed today is that when viewing from windows, the thumbnails are not there. Maybe it takes time it to generate the thumbnails for the 10,000 media files on there for windows. Isn't windows suppose to go through and create them? Perhaps I should leave the window open to let windows generate them.

All the pics from one phone goes in its respective directory based on the phone name (prob if it can't find it, it will go into a generic directory - backup?). It's just a backup mechanism so don't expect much. It works great once you get it set up. I opened my box and was set up in a few minutes. I spend time debugging why mine was DOA (bad adapter).

Oh not only does it support 5G wifi, but it supports 80G "ac" wifi. I had that turned off on my router since I have no device that uses it, but I will give it a go with the ibi.
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03-19-2021 at 04:33 PM.
03-19-2021 at 04:33 PM.
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Never got it set up, I couldn't even set it up and it's supposed to be plug-and-play they gave you 20 different things to do to set it up if you have a problem and none of them worked and then it said please contact support at that time I gave up and no no photos were in it
I am also having the same problem. the white light keeps on blinking. and the ibi app is never detects the device.
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03-19-2021 at 06:17 PM.
03-19-2021 at 06:17 PM.
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I am also having the same problem. the white light keeps on blinking. and the ibi app is never detects the device.
yep, I tried all the sixes and none of them worked the next thing is call support which I am not going to do if it doesn't work out of the box what's going to happen in a month took it back and I'm happy I got rid of it it sounded like it would've been an awesome product to bed someone else didn't make it
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gossipninja
03-21-2021 at 07:43 AM.
03-21-2021 at 07:43 AM.
I can see the ibi is connected (via router dhcp pool) but neither mobile app or desktop "sees" it.

I have reached out to support.

This is pretty much the most frustrating setup of a consumer product I have dealt with in some time.
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03-21-2021 at 07:43 AM.
03-21-2021 at 07:43 AM.
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wasssup
03-21-2021 at 02:11 PM.
03-21-2021 at 02:11 PM.
I posted earlier about issues with the device becoming unresponsive, going off on its own with the flashing white light.

Coincidentally it also made devices on my Nest WiFi network unresponsive, can't prove it was the ibi but hell of a coincidence.

I'm happy to say that after a few days of that, and rebooting my router a few times, everything has been stable. This isn't my ideal solution, but it's worth $40 for another backup solution and a 1tb drive. Bought a second from western digital and plan to give it to my parents...
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03-22-2021 at 11:54 PM.
03-22-2021 at 11:54 PM.
Opened it up, plugged it in, got a blinking white light. Downloaded the app, never could connect, next page said if you have a blinking white light click here, next page was to contact support 👎. Like others have said, if you're getting problems this early, imagine how far down the line for something else to go wrong. Would not want to trust these with my photos and videos. It's going back tomorrow.
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03-24-2021 at 12:34 AM.
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Got it working last week and it's still backing up my photos like it's suppose to. It does that job better than the pogoplug and wd cloud app. These app I have to explicitly start it to get it to start the backup. The Ibi product just does it automagically. Worth the $40 (a hit), but if you can't even set it up it's a miss.
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Lilyly
03-24-2021 at 09:37 AM.
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Opened it up, plugged it in, got a blinking white light. Downloaded the app, never could connect, next page said if you have a blinking white light click here, next page was to contact support 👎. Like others have said, if you're getting problems this early, imagine how far down the line for something else to go wrong. Would not want to trust these with my photos and videos. It's going back tomorrow.
ive been moving back and forth between my workplace and home. have been connected fine after at least a couple tries with phone restarts. however, its completely dead after the 5th times. it kept flashing rapidly (or slowly after a hard pin 5s reset). my app cant see the ibi anymore.
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Got it working last week and it's still backing up my photos like it's suppose to. It does that job better than the pogoplug and wd cloud app. These app I have to explicitly start it to get it to start the backup. The Ibi product just does it automagically. Worth the $40 (a hit), but if you can't even set it up it's a miss.
after a lot of trial and errors (like 10 attempts) i got it to work. at that point, i thought it could be the user error if they couldnt get it to work. the app was very buggy when it tried to connect to the ibi multiple times even if its already connected fine. after learning that, after it said "connected" on the background, i just closed the app, while it still kept trying with the "hit the snag" error msg. then reopen the app and it should be fine.

not for long, now the app cant even see my ibi anymore, despite of closing the app, restarting my phone, soft reset (pinhole)...

i think its all about the buggy app, not user error like i used to think it was.
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after a lot of trial and errors (like 10 attempts) i got it to work. at that point, i thought it could be the user error if they couldnt get it to work. the app was very buggy when it tried to connect to the ibi multiple times even if its already connected fine. after learning that, after it said "connected" on the background, i just closed the app, while it still kept trying with the "hit the snag" error msg. then reopen the app and it should be fine.

not for long, now the app cant even see my ibi anymore, despite of closing the app, restarting my phone, soft reset (pinhole)...

i think its all about the buggy app, not user error like i used to think it was.

I have a 2nd one I have yet to set up. I should set it up soon to make sure it's not doa. So many issues with these it seems. Maybe I got at least one good one? Well my ac adapter was doa so I really can't say that. I'm worried that adapter may fail again (I got it working by slamming it on a wood block).
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03-25-2021 at 07:31 PM.
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Did anyone was able to fix the blinking issue? Is it worth talking to their customer support?
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03-26-2021 at 07:49 AM.
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Did anyone was able to fix the blinking issue? Is it worth talking to their customer support?
no i have not. ive tried bluetooth and wifi (reset) connections. the app cant still see my ibi anymore. after a quick pin reset. my phone could connect to my ibi via wifi but the app cant see it.

there must be an easy way to re-connect the ibi to a different network. i could get it to work the first couple tries. not the app cant see it anymore.
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