Does it handle iPhone hdr photos?
Ente: Open-Source, E2E Encrypted, Google Photos Alternative
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Re: Ente: Open-Source, E2E Encrypted, Google Photos Alternative
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Been running immich for a while but haven't dropped my Google photos just to make sure I can manage immich and not lose everything. Updated from 1.8.something to 1.9something which includes a big db rework and lost all my user accounts. I imagine the photos are still in there somewhere but i haven't dug in yet so they're effectively gone. Lost a lot of trust for me with that even though it was probably my fault.
I keep seeing immich mentioned a lot in selfhosting community. Is there a mobile app that can connect to the selfhosted backend server?
yes. And even an Android TV app in dev, too.
I self-host on my own local server on my LAN (an RK3588 ARM SoC board running in a cigar box...) and expose it to the app via Tailscale when I'm out and about. Works great
Though I still back up to Google Photos as well
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Hey, we do support the use cases you mentioned! 1. Album collaboration: https://ente.io/blog/collaborative-albums/ 2. Photo collection: https://ente.io/blog/collect-photos/ Please let me know if I missed something. Sharing is an important feature for all of us, and we would love to get it right.
That is great :) I will look into it, from a first glance collaboration seems to only be on a per album basis? Can you have nested albums? For a group of friends / family you'd probably want many tens of albums tracking different trips/events etc.
We don't support nested albums, yet.
Thanks for sharing your use case, will figure out how to best solve for it.
(Right now a "stream" of photos within a feed sounds like simpler UX than nested-albums, but will think more)
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#144Hey, Ente's CEO here. We had opensourced our server[1] yesterday, which is perhaps why we are on the front page. Stoked to be here Ente had launched on HN[2] a while ago and has been sustainably growing since. We took the feedback from our Show HN seriously and have since - undergone a cryptography audit [3] - published our replication strategy [4] - added requested features (family plans, collaborative albums and li…
Hey, a fellow mallu, just wanted to send my appreciation on the product. It literally looks great, my kudos to your illustrator and FE developers. Best wishes!
Why do you have to say this? Why say mallu instead of saying a fellow Indian?
Re: Ente: Open-Source, E2E Encrypted, Google Photos Alternative
#145I want a self hosted photo backup service for family that doesn't need 4gb ram. I do not need heavy transcoding or stuff. Just a place for people to dump their photos on. I have looked at some alternatives but they are all resource hungry from respective docs. If pixelfed can run on php and limited resources , why not some google photos alternative? Is there something lightweight that let's multiple people to share t…
Immich is resource-hungry on the initial import, but should run on very little after that, especially if you make some tweaks like disabling ML and transcoding. (disclosure, I'm one of the Immich maintainers)
Uh... Will it be fine on a 1 GB ram 1 vcpu for basic stuff? I won't do a fat import, but one by one and staggered.
Re: Ente: Open-Source, E2E Encrypted, Google Photos Alternative
#146Ente verification code email is considered dangerous by Google mail. "Similar messages were used to steal people's personal information. Avoid clicking links, downloading attachments, or replying with personal information." So you know
We've spend time debugging this and talking to our service provider's[1] support, but haven't been able to figure out the root cause. If there are any experts reading this, we'd be grateful if you could let us know what we're doing wrong here. We're in the middle of switching over to SES because they are landing flawlessly into Gmail inboxes, but it would still be good to understand what we could have done better. [1…
The problem is your service provider, Zoho. Zoho is used by a massive amount of spammers. As a result, many email blocking and verification services will flag any MX records that lead back to Zoho.
Re: Ente: Open-Source, E2E Encrypted, Google Photos Alternative
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Hard drives last even less, what is even your point? I don't understand. Do you suggest they store their photos on magnetic tape or what?
My point is regarding writes specifically. A HDD can typically survive longer than a SSD if they were both to receive the same amount of writes over time. SSDs use flash memory cells, which have a limited amount of writes you can do to them before they start to fail. Compared to magnetic disks in HDDs that don't have a finite lifetime of writes. If you are mostly reading data, then no worries, probably won't affect y…
How often do you move or delete your backed up photos?
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To be fair, the underlying storage of the synology won't last forever. A cheap SSD might reliably last five years, a nice one, about ten years, as far as I know. You also need to pay for the electricity necessary to keep your server running 24/7, if you want a service level equivalent to a cloud storage service. All this adds up. The scales will probably stay in favor of the self-hosting options, but you have to take…
> A cheap SSD might reliably last five years, a nice one, about ten years, as far as I know. Solution: a RAID system with 5 reliable disks and you replace 2 of them every 5th year, and the other 3 in the following 4 years.
This works great, until you have coordinated failures, e.g. due to a firmware bug that's dependent on the uptime of the disk (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32031243).
RAID is only useful as long as you don't suffer more simultaneous disk failures than you've provisioned for (where "simultaneous" is dependent on your time-to-repair, since if it takes you a week to replace a dead drive, then two failures in the same week are indistinguishable from two failures in the same minute, in that you've lost the entire array).
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We've spend time debugging this and talking to our service provider's[1] support, but haven't been able to figure out the root cause. If there are any experts reading this, we'd be grateful if you could let us know what we're doing wrong here. We're in the middle of switching over to SES because they are landing flawlessly into Gmail inboxes, but it would still be good to understand what we could have done better. [1…
The problem is your service provider, Zoho. Zoho is used by a massive amount of spammers. As a result, many email blocking and verification services will flag any MX records that lead back to Zoho.
Thanks for the information. This is sad if true. In my limited experience Zoho been an honest business to deal with.
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Yeah I tried all sorts of photo services and ended up going for a Synology. You can pick them up very cheap in sales and don’t need the fastest drives or the latest CPUs if you’re only doing photo stuff and not transcoding HTPC media. With RAID and offsite backups it’s a solid and cheap (over time) system, and I don’t have to worry about some service getting bought out or shutting down.
Sales. This must be an American thing. Have never seen any decent discounts on them here in Europe.
In the Netherlands we have them all the time too. Also on Synologys.