I have a raspi sitting idle and would love to use it to run this! What are common solutions for backups? I would hate to lose all my photos. Is buying a Synology the only option?
Immich – High performance self-hosted photo and video management
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Re: Immich – High performance self-hosted photo and video management
#152Absolutely 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…
> I've been able to do things like automatically create albums from my Signal backup
Interesting, would you mind elaborating on how you do that? I take it you have your backup key stored on your home server then? What tool do you use to decrypt & parse the backup?
Re: Immich – High performance self-hosted photo and video management
#153I set up Immich last week and I absolutely love it. Docker is my "happy place" and I found the setup pretty straightforward, though it does have some rough edges that I anticipate will be sorted out as the project continues to mature.
I showed Immich to my partner and they loved it so much that we've ordered significantly more storage for the server to accommodate it. We're currently using both Google Photos and OneDrive, but with this we'll be ditching OneDrive and filling that niche with Immich (as well as expanded network storage in general).
The website and documentation is super clear about not using it as the only source of photos. This is why we'll keep using Google Photos, and why I'll also be backing up Immich and portions of the network storage to B2 via restic. I've used this snapshotting pattern for my general server data for years, and it's even saved me a couple of times. Backups are something you hope to never need to use, but boy are they satisfying when you do need to use them and have them set up properly!
Re: Immich – High performance self-hosted photo and video management
#154Any 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.
I was using PhotoPrism for a few years and switched over to Immich and am very glad I did.
- There was no good mobile backup story. State-of-the-art was WebDAV sync and import delays which would truncate files and other issues on back connections. It also made deletion risky.
- The UI had lots of things that felt very opinionated for a very specific workflow that seems niche. Things like auto-adding generated titles and other things.
- The face recognition is much worse, especially for non-white faces. Even detection didn't seem to have a good setting that would reliably identify what is a face without way too many false positives.
- Immich's semantic image search is way better than what was on PhotoPrism where it seemed to just find a few tags.
- PhotoPrism had lots of UI quirks like the persistent selection that almost never worked how I wanted it to.
Lots of other odds and ends as well. There isn't anything that I actually miss from PhotoPrism.
Re: Immich – High performance self-hosted photo and video management
#155Earlier quoted context omitted.
Immich is extremely stable even if not labeled as such. My personal experience is zero maintenance (other than updating docker container) since deployment several years ago.
Stability also implies that we don’t have to update our server version every couple of days/weeks because otherwise the mobile app stops working. I’m ok upgrading but it gets old wondering why the photos aren’t showing up and then realizing that it’s because the versions are out of sync and the mobile app just refuses to talk to the server.
Yeah, short compatibility ranges between the app and sever is one of my biggest pain points right now.
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#156Earlier quoted context omitted.
To be fair, there’s a massive banner on their front page warning users it’s in beta. Until they settle on a proper release it’ll continue to be a bit chaotic. All software development is like that.
This looks like one of those projects that will never settle and have a stable slower release cycle.
v0.46.4_p3
Re: Immich – High performance self-hosted photo and video management
#157I use immich every day and I'm a big fan of it, but the search feature is dismal and still falls short of any other major image hosting provider:
https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/8377
The way that semantic search works, they don't cap a relevance score (since it's all relative), and they don't allow you to sort through some kind of time index either.
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#158Years ago I've passed on Immich because it was "prone to breakage" and went with a directory organization and syncthing for syncing. I still see immich doesn't have a stable release which is a bummer, although people report it is quite stable. I'm glad I went with the organization method I did. I do a lot more pruning of photos and less hoarding. I actually am able to view photos without getting "burnt out".
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#159I would love to give this a try but its software supply chain story seems like a car crash, with dependency bumps needed every few days: https://github.com/immich-app/immich/commits/main/server/pac... I'm keen to use it as soon as the dependency story is mature (eg. it is packaged in Debian). This doesn't seem likely to happen any time soon. I'm sure many people won't care about this. But for me, it's a measure of qu…
Are there any/many applications that require a configured database (like PostgreSQL) and Redis/Valkey in Debian's package manager at all?
Also, Docker-compose is pretty great in terms of getting complex applications up and running.
Re: Immich – High performance self-hosted photo and video management
#160I would love to give this a try but its software supply chain story seems like a car crash, with dependency bumps needed every few days: https://github.com/immich-app/immich/commits/main/server/pac... I'm keen to use it as soon as the dependency story is mature (eg. it is packaged in Debian). This doesn't seem likely to happen any time soon. I'm sure many people won't care about this. But for me, it's a measure of qu…
Why is docker compose a red flag? That feels like a benefit to me.
Yeah... I'm not sure that I've ever seen a complex app with multiple, separate service/database requirements (redis, pg, etc) packaged in a Linux distro repository... but I could be wrong.