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Immich – High performance self-hosted photo and video management
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#22I have been looking for such a thing for so long! Since this can be too much to develop from scratch I was hoping I could use Claude or something to start off on it.
I have gone for days in rage because Google photos would hog on memory and I had no folder view to know which pictures/videos were the culprit and I wouldn't get a folder view. If this works, I might spend some time working on this project, just to pay my regards.
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#23Recently installed and it’s chewing through 25 years of digital photos, has been some weeks now and expecting it to take another week. But - seems great. I was prompted to do this after the death of a friend and the subsequent hunt for photos, so I’m hoping the facial recognition lives up to its billing. I don’t really like having the NAS on 24/7 but I do like the idea of having that local photo sync. Probably cheape…
The facial recognition can tell my kids apart better than I can (with just the cropped face; other context makes it obvious which kid is which).
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#24I've been using immich for awhile now and it has been great!
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#25This serves as a great reminder for me to set up Immich when I get time, and a reason/excuse to purchase a better GPU. I have been uneasy with my dependence on Google for a while now. [EDIT]: the following was intended as a reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45168333 I understand the author's point against the perceived complexity of 1-5 star rating systems, but it's worthy of note that star ratings are ex…
Does Immich have features that need a high-end GPU? I hosted it on a machine with a 1050Ti, and see others in this comment section mentioning using a RPi.
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#26I’ve been testing with PikaPods and costs less than $6 a month. Been happy with it; actually, pretty happy with whatever comes to PikaPods (no affiliation).
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#27I would love to use Immich but I'm not into running a home server - electricity isn't that reliable here and putting in backup power is more expensive than I want to pay. Also I just don't want to manage the hardware.
I've looked into cloud hosting. But of course, photos and videos take up a lot of space. Object storage is cheap but not supported by Immich. Block storage is not cheap.
I did look into s3fuse but the concensus seemed to be that lots of tiny files like thumbnails wouldn't perform well.
Does anyone cloud host it? What's your solution?
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#28I can't get past the name. So cringe makes me not want to come near it
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#29I can't get past the name. So cringe makes me not want to come near it
Perhaps I’m missing something. What makes the name cringe?
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#30Absolutely love immich. Prior to the release of the new "Beta timeline", it was difficult to recommend without reservation, because there were a lot of performance issues on Android, and syncing was just non-functional on my wife's iPhone. However, since enabling the beta timeline, the app is basically perfect now. I've been running it for months without issue, and having a first-class CLI means I've been able to do things like automatically create albums from my Signal backup. Big thanks to the immich team!