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AIPPics Desktop Server — User Guide

AIPPics Desktop Server (aiudtfs) keeps your photo and video library on a computer you own and lets your other devices use it over your home or office network. It is the "Desktop" repository inside the AIPPics app, and it has its own web gallery that opens in any browser — nothing to install on the device you browse from.

What you can do with it​

  • Keep the library on your computer. Photos and videos stay as ordinary files in a folder you choose; albums are kept next to them in the server's own small database, so the same album or photo can sit under several parents without duplicating files.
  • Use it from the phone. In AIPPics, switch the repository to Desktop Server, pick your server from the list of servers found on Wi-Fi and log in. See Connecting.
  • Use it from a browser. Open the server's address from any computer, tablet or phone on the same network to browse albums, view photos and videos, move and copy them, crop, and export whole folders to disk. See The web gallery.
  • Configure it from one page. The admin page sets the photos folder, the network, the password, which folders may be browsed or written to, and more. See The admin page.

What you need​

  • A Linux computer to run the server on (ready-made packages: .deb for Debian/Ubuntu and a .tar.xz for any x86_64 Linux). See Installation.
  • The computer and your phone or browser on the same network.
  • TCP port 48651 open on the computer (and UDP 5353 if you want the phone app to find the server by itself).

The server speaks plain HTTP and is protected by one shared password: it is made for a trusted home or office network, not for the open internet.

Demo, Free and Plus​

Like the app, the server comes in three versions that differ only in how much it holds and how many devices can use it at once: Demo (no account linked), Free (linked to a free AISKSoft account) and Plus (the account has AIPPics Plus — no limits). The exact numbers and how to link an account are in Account and Plus.

In this guide​

  1. Installation — install, first start, first login.
  2. Connecting — from the phone app and from a browser.
  3. The web gallery — browsing and managing photos in the browser.
  4. The admin page — every setting.
  5. Account and Plus — limits, linking, upgrading.
  6. Troubleshooting — when something doesn't work.