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Immich – High performance self-hosted photo and video management

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Re: Immich – High performance self-hosted photo and video management

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Post by wonger_ »

codethief wrote: post #50

I recently looked into both Immich and Ente.io for syncing and also sharing photos since 1) Syncthing has been rather unreliable for me in the last year, 2) my photo library has become too big to just sync it across devices, 3) I was never really happy with NextCloud for sharing photos. Immich looked really nice but in the end I went with Ente because of its E2E encryption. So far I'm really happy!

How has syncthing been unreliable for you? Curious as I was going to start using it more. Was it something about large files or many files?

Re: Immich – High performance self-hosted photo and video management

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Post by anttiharju »

esperent wrote: post #27

I 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 c…

I wish it'd be easy to plug it to a s3 backend and thumbnails etc. ephemeral things could just be on disk.

Re: Immich – High performance self-hosted photo and video management

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Post by esel2k »

Its great however I still think they could simplify usage: - admin vs config menu - I always search in both - mounted folders vs backup folders: I would welcome a Simple Filter in the main view as I find the folder view ugly - Initial setup with all the jobs a big complicated

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Post by justusthane »

esperent wrote: post #27

I 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 c…

Hetzner Storage Box is quite reasonable: https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/#matrix

Re: Immich – High performance self-hosted photo and video management

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Post by crtasm »

andreldm wrote: post #17

Any opinion on why Immich instead of Photoprism? I’m considering to pick one of them for my media library and Immich not being labeled as stable scares me a bit.

Photoprism is lacking batch edit for tags/metadata https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism/issues/271

Re: Immich – High performance self-hosted photo and video management

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Post by prism56 »

I run a homeserver and self host applications (freshrss, linkding). I just don't understand the security enough to trust my photos. I've gone with Ente.io. Their 3 tiered backup and my local backup should be good enough.

The other issue is my family use my account and don't want to be in charge if my backups fail.

I do love what immich is doing though and would love to run it.

Re: Immich – High performance self-hosted photo and video management

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Post by freetonik »

esperent wrote: post #27

I 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 c…

One very easy and painless way is Pikapods (https://www.pikapods.com/).

Re: Immich – High performance self-hosted photo and video management

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Post by barbazoo »

rclkrtrzckr wrote: post #39
greysonp wrote: post #30

Absolutely 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…

CLI? Didn't even know that! A doc pointer would be awesome

https://immich.app/docs/features/command-line-interface/
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