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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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Post by hamdingers »

NoboruWataya wrote: post #38

I have been using Nextcloud Photos because I already use Nextcloud to store all my photos. I have always been interested in Immich though. NC Photos has pretty much all the features I need (except maybe face recognition) but the performance isn't great. Has anyone switched from NC Photos -> Immich and have any thoughts on the process (and how well Immich plays with NC if I keep my photos stored there)?

Immich edges it out on people recognition and context search but otherwise similar in features. The Immich interface is much more like Google Photos and I find that to be better.

Regardless of where you're coming from I recommend migrating to Immich by "uploading" all your photos using the immich cli, and letting it manage the library.

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

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Post by hereme888 »

ls-a wrote: 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.

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

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Post by jdc0589 »

esperent wrote: post #27

I would love to use Immich but I'm not into running a home server - electricity isn't that reliable here and putting in backup power is more expensive than I want to pay. Also I just don't want to manage the hardware. I've looked into cloud hosting. But of course, photos and videos take up a lot of space. Object storage is cheap but not supported by Immich. Block storage is not cheap. I did look into s3fuse but the c…

this is pretty much the situation I'm in re the storage. I'm perfectly fine running a home server, I already do, but workloads with heavy storage requirements scare me away from it. I don't want to have to think about that at home, and the cost of pretty much anything other than object storage in the cloud is prohibitive, and as you mentioned obj store support is non-existent or hacky and slow with most of these products.

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

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Post by LeFantome »

aidenn0 wrote: post #25
Liftyee wrote: post #14

This serves as a great reminder for me to set up Immich when I get time, and a reason/excuse to purchase a better GPU. I have been uneasy with my dependence on Google for a while now. [EDIT]: the following was intended as a reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45168333 I understand the author's point against the perceived complexity of 1-5 star rating systems, but it's worthy of note that star ratings are ex…

Does Immich have features that need a high-end GPU? I hosted it on a machine with a 1050Ti, and see others in this comment section mentioning using a RPi.

Mine is running as a container on an old Mac Pro 2013 (running Proxmox). My GPU is not even as good as yours.

It runs great.

The “beta timeline” required hashing that took forever but this was on my wife’s iPhone and nothing to do with the back-end (she has 50,000 photos).

The machine-learning stuff uses the GPU. Facial recognition for example. It takes longer on low-end hardware but I am not sure why that is a problem.

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

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Post by gh02t »

andreldm wrote: post #17

Any 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.

IIRC, Immich started as a project after Photoprism changed their licensing to restrict several features, and then picked up a ton of momentum very fast. They've pledged they won't ever pay-gate features, which isn't always a positive as those features help sustain a project long term, but they have so much community support and love that I'm not worried about that in this case.

Feature wise I think they are pretty comparable (vs the paid version of Photoprism), and I like the UI of Immich slightly more. Immich also supports singe sign on via OIDC easily, which I rather appreciate so my family doesn't have to remember 10 different passwords.

Regarding stability it's actually pretty reliable. I've been running it for a long time via Docker in the form of the TrueNAS plugin and have never had any issues, like ever, so I think it being marked as unstable was a bit overly cautious. I think they have also recently moved to a new phase of development that is also going to be even more stable. Even if it does break, all of your media is stored in a nicely organized directory structure on the filesystem so you're not going to lose anything.

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

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Post by hamdingers »

poidos wrote: 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.

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

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Post by aanet »

Previously:

1 year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40563541

1 year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40772809

3 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33159796

7 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42984617

4 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30537564

1 year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39731179

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

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Post by dddw »

esperent wrote: post #27

I would love to use Immich but I'm not into running a home server - electricity isn't that reliable here and putting in backup power is more expensive than I want to pay. Also I just don't want to manage the hardware. I've looked into cloud hosting. But of course, photos and videos take up a lot of space. Object storage is cheap but not supported by Immich. Block storage is not cheap. I did look into s3fuse but the c…

I actually got it working with cloud storage on hetzner. Wasn't supersnappy, but it worked. I borked the build though and am planning to run it on my home-server

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

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Post by eptcyka »

NoboruWataya wrote: post #38

I have been using Nextcloud Photos because I already use Nextcloud to store all my photos. I have always been interested in Immich though. NC Photos has pretty much all the features I need (except maybe face recognition) but the performance isn't great. Has anyone switched from NC Photos -> Immich and have any thoughts on the process (and how well Immich plays with NC if I keep my photos stored there)?

Nextcloud was dog slow for me, Immich just flies. And the client app is far better both on iOS and Android. Nextcloud never worked for my SO, Immich just does.

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

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Post by codethief »

I recently looked into both Immich and Ente.io for syncing and also sharing photos since 1) Syncthing has been rather unreliable for me in the last year, 2) my photo library has become too big to just sync it across devices, 3) I was never really happy with NextCloud for sharing photos.

Immich looked really nice but in the end I went with Ente because of its E2E encryption. So far I'm really happy!

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