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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.
Bonus: Shutterfly - $25 to spend or 8x8 Photo Book with order!
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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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At this rate, I expect these to show up at a liquidator.
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.
Hi lilyly,
In the app you can change the wifi by going to menu->settings->lilyly's ibi->network->network. I'll upload a pic when I get to a desktop since I can't do it on the mobile app.
In the app you can change the wifi by going to menu->settings->lilyly's ibi->network->network. I'll upload a pic when I get to a desktop since I can't do it on the mobile app.
after a couple times, now my "lilyly's ibi" is just gone from the network, with the greyed out cloud icon. so it doesnt matter how many times you clicks on that greyed out cloud, you cant get anywhere. no "network" option for you to continue.
ive tried their last connection diagnostics from the manual. fast pin reset, then connect via bluetooth and wifi. both connected (via ibi-xxxx name) but the app still has that greyed out cloud icon. cant get anywhere.
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I just realized this has an import from Google Photos feature. I have like 1.5TB worth of unorganized photos, many dupes, and Google Takeout is so freaking tedious. I'm at the home stretch but this would have been a godsend if it worked and I could use a 2TB drive instead.
* Dead, will not connect to anything, warranty has me mailing it back and waiting...... Not worth the $40.....
Also does this sync properly for large video files? When I used some other tools like nextcloud, that is one area where I found it to fall short. If it doesn't sync, does it notify, so that those can be manually moved? (like over USB by connecting phone to ibi to move it quickly for larger files instead of wifi)