Comment on PhotoPrism vs Apple Photos currently?

jeena@piefed.jeena.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Usual precautions apply, the app does not bury the lede:

  The project is under very active development. Expect bugs and changes. Do not use it as the only way to store your photos and videos!

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  • jjlinux@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yes, I tried Immich but it’s basically a second job, no thanks. Photoprism is very good, but would need something like Syncthing to auto upload. So I ended up going with Libre Photo. It’s nowhere near as powerful as Immich in terms of features, but for my over 500K photos and almost 50K videos, works like a charm in ProxMox with the “UhuruPhotos” Android app.

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    • sxan@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Photoprism’s app space is pretty bad, but there is an completely hacky yet reliable solution for Android:

      1. PhotoBackup
      2. The PhotoBackup server on your Photoprism server
      3. A cron job that runs the photoprism import command every few minutes.

      Since I’ve had this set up, it’s worked as well as Google Photos ever did for keeping my phone snaps synced to the server. It’s been more reliable than SyncThing for my data, reacting and syncing faster, and it doesn’t mysteriously periodically just stop running like SyncThing.

      I don’t know if PhotoBackup is available for iOS, but if it is, it works a treat.

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      • jjlinux@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Sweet. Never heard of this before. Thanks. I’ll take it for a spin over the weekend.

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  • PoopMonster@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Good news is that it’s slated to go stable some time this year iirc.

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    • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      In keeping an eye on it. I use a rinky dink asustor solution for my backups. It’s cludgy as all heck.

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  • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I love that they clearly say that. IMO they should keep that notice around even later on.

    Far too many people spin up some solution for photos or files, either selfhosted or some paid service, and use it as their only storage. Then they’re surprised when data loss happens.

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    • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yeah I’m no data retention expert but that is a huge risk.

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• eternacht@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  +1 for Immich, I tried photoprism and had a lot of trouble importing and organizing an existing library. Immich works much more intuitively and had all the features I needed.

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• MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Immich has been great, I’ve been running it for something like 1.5 years now I think.

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• Railison@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Thanks for the suggestion I’ll follow it up!

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• d_ohlin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  This is a pretty accurate summary from my experience. The only thing I’d add is that (from what I’ve read at least) some form of ‘smart’ album functionality is high on the priority list and shouldn’t be too much further down the line. It may be a more advanced customizable logic type of solution (again from what I’ve read) but the functionality of putting person(s) ‘x’ into album(s) ‘y’ should be achievable.

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