Search speed was never an issue before, and neither was quality. My biggest gripe is not being able to sort search by date! If I had that, it would be perfect.
But I’ll update you once it’s done (at 97,000 to go… )
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avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 2 months agoLet me know how the search performs once it’s done. Speed of search, subjective quality, etc.
Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
OK, indexing finished some time yesterday and I ran a few searches like:
“Child wearing glasses indoors”
“Cars with no wheels”
“Woman riding a bike”
Results come up (immich on android) in three seconds.
But the quality of the results do appear to be considerably better with ViT-B-16-SigLIP2__webli compared to the default model.
I’m pretty happy. 👍
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Nice. I discovered that the Android app shows results a bit slower than the web. The request doesn’t reach Immich during the majority of the wait. I’m not sure why. When searching from the web app, the request is received by Immich immediately.
Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Interesting, it’s slightly slower for me through the web interface both with a direct connect to my network, or when proxied through the internet. Still, we’re talking seconds here, and the results are so accurate!
Immich has effectively replaced the (expensive) Windows software Excire Foto, which I was using for on-device contextual search because Synology Photos search just sucks. Excire isn’t ideal to run from Linux because it has to be done through a VM, so I’m happy to self-host Immich and be able to use it even while out of the house.