Self-hosting my photos with Immich
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Self-hosting my photos with Immich
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#2I'm running Immich on NanoPi R6C (arm64, even lower idle power usage, still plenty fast for running Immich).
I use Cloudflare tunnel to make it available outside the home network. I've set up two DNS names – one for accessing it directly in the local network, and and a second one that goes through the tunnel. The Immich mobile app supports internal/external connection settings – it uses the direct connection when connected to home wifi, and the tunnel when out and about.
For uploading photos taken with a camera I either use immich-go (https://github.com/simulot/immich-go) or upload them through the web UI. There's a "publish to Immich" plugin for Adobe Lightroom which was handy, but I've moved away from using Lightroom.
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#3Love Immich. Runs smoothly on an amd 4700u ($200) with minimum cpu/ram usage
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#4Self hosting used to mean conceding on something. I can honestly say Immich is better in every way than Google Photos or whatever Apple calls it. The only thing is having to set it up yourself.
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#5Immich started the same time and with the same backstory/reasoning to my (failed) project.
I love the immich success story but it seems like it's missing a crucial use case in my view: I don't actually want a majority of the photos on my phone. I want something like a shared album that me and my wife both have access to, and so we can share photos specifically to that album (quickly and without hassle), so we can do it in the moment and both have access.
I would probably estimate 90% Of my photos are junk, But I want to isolate and share the 10% that are really special.
My app failed, but I'm thinking about reviving it as an alternative front-end to immich, to build upon that.. But I feel like I'm the only one who wants this. Everyone else seems fine with bulk photo backup for everything.
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#6I adore Immich. I set it up a while ago, and I'm finally looking at my photos again. I was previously using Nextcloud for photos, but it was such a slog to find anything that I never took or looked at photos.
Immich put the joy back in photography for me, it's so easy to find anything, even with just searching with natural language.
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#7I'm running Immich on NanoPi R6C (arm64, even lower idle power usage, still plenty fast for running Immich). I use Cloudflare tunnel to make it available outside the home network. I've set up two DNS names – one for accessing it directly in the local network, and and a second one that goes through the tunnel. The Immich mobile app supports internal/external connection settings – it uses the direct connection when con…
Are you also facing the the 100mb upload limit when using cloudflare tunnel?
Sometimes I want to upload a video from my phone will away from home but I can't and need to vpn
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#8Docker + Immich + Tailscale is the killer replacement to Google & Apple Photos, it's simply that simple
Re: Self-hosting my photos with Immich
#9I adore Immich. I set it up a while ago, and I'm finally looking at my photos again. I was previously using Nextcloud for photos, but it was such a slog to find anything that I never took or looked at photos. Immich put the joy back in photography for me, it's so easy to find anything, even with just searching with natural language.
Yeah I started with memories for nextcloud. But it was buggy/slow unfortunately.
Being able to scroll to dates with immich is golden. And the facial recognition is on device and works great.
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#10Docker + Immich + Tailscale is the killer replacement to Google & Apple Photos, it's simply that simple
Can you elaborate? What role does Tailscale play? I selfhost and have heard about Tailscale but couldn't figure out how it's used.