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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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Recently 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…

How many and size?

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

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post #28

I can't get past the name. So cringe makes me not want to come near it

Download the repo, open in VS Code, and do a search + replace from "Immich", as well as the "Immich" part of file names to whatever you want. Then, go into the design folder of the repo and replace all the images with whatever logo names you want.

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

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post #28

I can't get past the name. So cringe makes me not want to come near it

Download the repo, open in VS Code, and do a search + replace from "Immich", as well as the "Immich" part of file names to whatever you want. Then, go into the design folder of the repo and replace all the images with whatever logo names you want.

And then apply to ycombinator.

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

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Can we make it into an app ?? For windows and mac like click and install ? That can scan all the folders and do all its stuff !??

macOS on arm, you can download the ios app and install it. That's what I did to import my wife's photos.

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

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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…

The only problem I've had with it so far is that the date on photos coming from icloud is when they were uploaded, not the date that the photo was created or even the date that I've marked the photo as being taken. Makes seeing photos from 90 years ago kind of strange.

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

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post #18

I would love to self-host this stuff (using Immich, or Ente) but my family's bus factor is 1 and the risk of losing all the pictures really prevents me from taking this step. Sure, maybe my wife could reach out to my techie friends but why create the problem in the first place?

If you can't backup your essential local data then self hosting isn't really ever an option for you

It's not about backing up. It's about non-technical family members being able to reliably recover the data.

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

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post #18

I would love to self-host this stuff (using Immich, or Ente) but my family's bus factor is 1 and the risk of losing all the pictures really prevents me from taking this step. Sure, maybe my wife could reach out to my techie friends but why create the problem in the first place?

What solution are you using now? I feel the same, so I keep photos on hard drives and usb drives in different locations. I have a Restic backup at Backblaze but that is where the bus factor comes in. I don't know what would be best.

Just iCloud for now.

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

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post #18

I would love to self-host this stuff (using Immich, or Ente) but my family's bus factor is 1 and the risk of losing all the pictures really prevents me from taking this step. Sure, maybe my wife could reach out to my techie friends but why create the problem in the first place?

The solution is packaging. My Immich server performs a nightly backup to a 2tb flash drive labelled "PHOTOS" attached to the router. My partner knows where it is and what it's for, and everyone knows how to use a flash drive.

Are you rotating flash drives and such? I would worry about something happening to me, then she goes to use the flash drive, and the data is corrupt or the drive is fried.

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

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I just started looking into Ente which works very well but I don’t like 100MB Dart chromium app (I may build my own native frontend in iced.rs). However I’m wondering how Immich compares it seems less interested in the encryption security and sharing aspects and more heavy on the image editor aspect. Both are selfhostable. So it maybe an effort to migrate one day.

Immich uses Flutter as well, fyi
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