Glad it was helpful!

My OpenWRT installation went without a hitch. Looking forward to doing another and getting so meshed wifi VLANs on the go!

Odd that you couldn’t install pip3 directly from the Ubuntu repo – you may have needed to run:

sudo apt update

…to get the latest package lists before installing. All the same, your solution works too, thanks for posting it!

E: Package ‘python3-pip’ has no installation candidate

root@gamma:~# apt install python3-pip
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Package python3-pip is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package ‘python3-pip’ has no installation candidate

root@gamma:~# python3 -V
Python 3.8.5

root@gamma:~# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS
Release: 20.04
Codename: focal

No problem 😉

Apologies for the delay in getting your comment approved – I hadn’t heard of Gerbera – thanks for pointing it out!

Most users run a media server on a small system like a NAS (as in my case) or a Raspberry Pi, not on a PC.

The problem with JellyFin is that it it is written for .NET, which is a good choice for PCs or powerful ARM devices like smartphones or tablets, but a .NET app is compiled to “Intermediate Laguage”, similar to Java’s bytecode, not to machine code for the respective platform.

But just that is an important requirement for a media server.

Even though my NAS has a 1 GHz dual-core CPU and 1 GB of RAM, JellyFin was unusable. Then I found gerbera which runs really fast since it’s written in C++ and it has a feature that other media servers I tried before – including JellyFin – don’t have: You can have your photos categorised into year and month.

When I want to see the pictures I have taken e. g. in september of 2009, I open the virtual folders “Year”, “2007”, “09”. Everything I tried before grouped together pictures taken at the same day. So after selecting “By Date”, I got a huge number of virtual folders. When I finally arrived at 2009 after scrolling, scrolling and even more scrolling, I was presented with virtual folders “2009-01-01”, “2009-01-05”, “2009-01-06” and so on. But this would only be useful if you remembered the exact day you took the picture.

Furthermore, if you are familiar with JavaScript, you can take full control of how your media will be categorised by writing functions that will be called by gerbera when importing media.

I recommend to compile gerbera from source since most distros have merely ancient versions in their repos, e. g. even Debian testing has merely v1.1.0, whereas the current version is 1.8.0.
ATM, stay away from 1.8.0 if your client supports video thumbnails and you want to use that feature since it’s broken in 1.8.0.

Get the 1.7.0 source from GitHub, it’s really easy to build since it uses cmake and it comes with scripts that download, build and install suitable versions of libraries gerbera depends on.