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Re: Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release

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Post by sharperguy » Sat, Oct 04, 2025, 7:34 PM UTC

hagbard_c wrote: post #70

sharperguy wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Funnily enough I use nextcloud to upload my photos and then immich with the external dir pointed to my nextcloud directory to actually view them. Mostly came about because I installed nextcloud first. But it means I get to keep both immich and still have a regular file structure.

Same here, I tried Nextcloud Memories first which has some of the same functionality but ended up being too slow in nearly all aspects. Immich does well in this regard so I use it just like you do using its external library feature. You may be interested in the change I submitted to Immich which makes it possible to directly log in to Immich using the Nextcloud OIDC app. Add Immich as an 'external site' and use the a…

I didn't realize that nextcloud can act as an oidc provider. I use authelia for logging into nextcloud

Re: Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release

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Post by fivestones » Sat, Oct 04, 2025, 7:53 PM UTC

addend wrote: post #39

Can Immich do search/filter based on both map (geographic area) and time parameters? Through add-ons or search text syntax? Example 1. Show all photos from this area (draw rectangle on map) from times 22:00 to 00:00. Example 2. Show all photos from this area (draw rectangle on map) from years 2020 to 2024 in months march to may AND september to october from times 22:00 to 00:00. In the Immich demo the map view lets m…

I want to be able to do all these same kinds of searches too. Especially layering on searches, like what you said about how the search ideally could be bookmarked and searched on. Like any search result could become a smart album maybe. I’d love to be able to search something like [all photos in the box I drew on the map] and then out of those results [photos in 2021 and 2023] and then out of those results [photos of person x] and out of those results a clip search like [people walking on the beach]. It would also be great to remove photos from the search like [photos in this geographical area] but not [clip search for “yellow lab”].

Re: Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release

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Post by izacus » Sun, Oct 05, 2025, 7:25 AM UTC

dangus wrote: post #90

avtolik wrote: post #6

I haven't heard of this app before, so I looked around their site and docs. I was mildly interested in trying it out until I saw the requirements: "A system with at least 4GB of RAM and 2 CPU cores.", but recommended 6 GB of RAM. Why does an image storage solution needs so much RAM?

I hope you slept well in your cryo-chamber, Austin Powers. It’s the year 2025, 6GB of RAM is not a lot. A stick of 32GB of RAM costs about $50. Most simple telephones come with 8GB of RAM.

Synology Photos runs on NASes with 2GB still.

Re: Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release

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Post by izacus » Sun, Oct 05, 2025, 7:26 AM UTC

dangus wrote: post #150

eviks wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you going to host this app on a simple telephone?

You get my point. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that replacing a massively scaled $100+/year photo/video hosting service offered by the biggest multinational companies in the world will consume compute resources. You are either consuming your own server’s resources or you’re paying Apple/Google/someone else to handle it for you.

It comes as a surprise because there's products that do the same with massively lower resources.

Re: Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release

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Post by fourseventy » Tue, Oct 07, 2025, 3:50 PM UTC

tuesdaynight wrote: post #127

fourseventy wrote: post #79

I literally just migrated from Photoprism to Immich 4 days ago. Hopefully migrating to 2.0 isn't hard. Very happy with Immich though, its miles ahead of Photoprism and at this point the best choice for self hosting photos.

I've tried to use Photoprism last year, but it didn't work great for me, so I was planning to move to Immich. It's nice to hear that it's miles ahead in your experience. Do you use the search by context feature? I mean, searching "yellow car" and getting pictures with yellow cars in them as response. My experience with Photoprism was horrible in that aspect.

The search is pretty good in Immich. Fast and pretty accurate, much better than photoprism