Immich is awesome

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Submitted ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨rambos@lemm.ee⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩

https://immich.app/img/immich-logo.svg

I know we had posts like this before, but Immich deserves 👏

One more update, one less container, the best Google Photos alternative, its just amazing!!

Don’t forget to edit your docker-compose before updating

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DavidGarcia@feddit.nl ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
the color scheme of that icon physically hurts to look at

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- clmbmb@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Wow! You found the problem. Congrats!
  
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- juli@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Time to use arcticons
  
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Norgur@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Noticed it stopped working yesterday, wasnt at home so I couldn't really get into it, just checked the docker logs via portainer on the go and was like "wtf is this error?!" Was relieved when I learned what the issue was and that it's just a restructuring of the containers.

While it can be unnerving that they don't shy away from breaking things in order to improve the service, it's actually a very good thing and keeps the app from getting bogged down in some "but backwards compatibility"legacy code hell (wonder what some people in Redmond would know about that). Let's just hope that they never publish an update that permanently breaks things when you haven't followed a very strict weird update procedure or something.

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- MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  They have mentioned that once out of dev/alpha status they will figure out proper release versioning so you can pin a major version and not get breaking changes.
  
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- Discover5164@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  you should exclude the immich stack from auto-updating and subscribe to immich releases.
  
  most of the time will just be a docker compose pull && docker compose up -d && docker compose logs -f
  
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  - Ramenator@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    And for the love of god don’t go for latest, just stick to the release tags
    
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- roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Do not have docker containers auto update.
  
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  - DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Or, if you do have it auto-update (like I do) prepare for things to break every now and then. I auto-update just about all containers except those that would break either my home automation or my ability to login to my network and fix things. Everything else auto-updates, including Immich.
    
    My Immich broke this weekend when they switched the stack over to pgvecto, to use vector searching in Postgres. Easily fixed, but took me a solid minute to figure out what had changed.
    
    Which is kinda weird they didn’t communicate this one so well. In the lead-up to v.1.88.0, Alex made an announcement on Github to let people know the breaking change was the removal of the web container from the stack, rolling the webserver into the main server container itself. That was a good move, as all I did was flip my Watchtower container on that host to monitor only.
    
    Dunno why they didn’t do something similar for the Postgres change. Was just as breaking.
    
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  - Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Unless the container follows semver and only auto update minor versions.
    
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Brtrnd@feddit.nl ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
How do ppl think of immich Vs photoprism? I dislike photoprism because every action takes 10 seconds

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- Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  For me Photoprism is unusable for the simple fact that they don’t support multiple users. Also Photoprism doesn’t have an official app.
  
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  - JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I think photoprism supports multiple users.
    
    If you pay $72 per year…
    
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  - palitu@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    yeah the simple workflow of the app -> immich server makes it seamless. i think that is the magic part of immich, the barrier to entry for getting your photos in (and the WAF) is key.
    
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- bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I’ve just set up an Immich server and the UI is nice and uploading is quite fast. Waiting for Google takeout to finish so I can import my whole library…
  
  Also your Lemmy account is marked as a bot btw. Some people block bot accounts.
  
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- WindowsEnjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Photoprism has different approach. Last time I tried I wasn’t impressed. Immich, on the other hand, gives me almost identical experience to Google Photos. I was heavily using Google Photos, so this is probably the reason why I am pro-immich.
  
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dadrad@midwest.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Thanks for the reminder to check my docker compose file. I finally deployed immich for the family last week. I had tried it before, but held out for external libraries.

We never really used Google photos or iCloud, so having a similar experience with the library on my NAS is amazing.

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slampisko@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Looks interesting, thanks for the rec!

Is there a way to semi-easily import my Google Photos archive?

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- dodekaphilist@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Take a look into immich-go
  
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  - WindowsEnjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    +1 for it. Used it previously and just recently. Works like a charm!
    
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pimeys@lemmy.nauk.io ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Installed it because of this thread to my homelab today. I never really managed my phone images in any way, never uploaded them anywhere. This was the first time. About 5 gigabytes of images and videos were synced to my NAS in a few minutes, now I can search them and all that. It’s a pretty cool setup, although the installation is a bit tricky if you don’t go to the path they give you. I run a Postgres server in Proxmox, and you have to install just the right version of pgvecto.rs for the system to work.

Browsing the issues I was able to figure out what went wrong, and after downgrading, no issues.

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- WindowsEnjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  But it’s not that difficult to dedicate Docker compose file for an “immich project” and use exactly as developer suggests. You are not like going to have 100+ users, more like 1-10 users and even RPI would be enough. It’s not an issue to have small database along immich project on the same host.
  
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  - pimeys@lemmy.nauk.io ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    It just doesn’t feel right to have multiple postgres databases running, if every other service uses the one in the network. Having already monitoring, disk space and backups set…
    
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  - bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Though if you have something better than a Pi that would be ideal. Then it can do nice things like face detection, object detection for search, and transcoding.
    
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nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The only thing preventing me to move from photoview to immich is the lack of sorting/viewing photos by folder hierarchy. I love the UI and the machine learning customisation options. They recently added the “external albums” feature, so I am hoping this folder hierarchy thing, too, will soon be implemented.

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Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters More Letters

NAS Network-Attached Storage

RPi Raspberry Pi brand of SBC

SBC Single-Board Computer

[Thread #360 for this sub, first seen 17th Dec 2023, 14:15] [FAQ] [Full list] [Contact] [Source code]

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storm@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Playing with the demo, it lacks adding text/captions and reordering photos compared to Google Photos. Any other suggestions?

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- WindowsEnjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Considering that it’s free, always improving and self-hosted, I am more than happy that it lacks some minor features from Google Photos. :) It’s not perfect, but I can relax that nothing like this would happen to me:
  
  theguardian.com/…/google-csam-account-blocked
  
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  - qjkxbmwvz@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Not only that, but Google Photos already pulled a huge bait-and-switch. It used to be free unlimited photo storage for compressed photos…until they just stopped.
    
    I love immich!
    
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nucleative@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The only thing holding me back with Immich has been the non-obvious back end storage options.

I’d like to keep my data in an S3 bucket, but from what I can tell it’s still unsupported because of some limitations with fuse.

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- palitu@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  i semi-agree. i added a feature request explicitly asking for that in the really early days of the project.
  
  What i REALLY want from the project is adding to the 3-2-1 type of backup strategy. I want it to also store a backup in an external system. something like local filesystem like it is now, then have a versioned type of backup in an S3 compatible buckets (backblaze B2??). something like a simple borg backup or other incremental backup system.
  
  since it talks a lot about backup of photos, i dont really see it is a backup solution.
  
  note: i LOVE immich
  
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  - bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I think I’ll have to do this myself, separately.
    
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- WindowsEnjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Just a question - are you considering AWS unlimited S3 storage where you pay-as-you-use?
  
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  - nucleative@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Yes. I want to put it into cloud storage that I control and can move around as required, so that I can’t run out of space. And so that I don’t need to manage a local physical drive.
    
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milan@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
if only photosync would work properly in the background on ios … i thought it is supposed to but it just doesnt do the thing by itself. sometimes i get a notification about 0/5xx photos being synced. hm. i know its more like ios sabotaging the software here, yet still it prevents me from using it more :/

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- roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Apple sabotages your user experience at every turn unless you use their solutions which cost money and your response is to stop using other software. Sounds like the desired outcome for Apple.
  
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- MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Have you tried the Immich app?
  
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  - milan@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    thats what i meant – is there an alternative option?
    
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friend_of_satan@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
After seeing this post I finally gave it a whirl. After a few days of use, I’ve decided to stick with photoprism. It’s interesting to see how they each have different strengths. I think immich looks more promising, but I ran into problems with a ton of missing thumbnails, map photo clusters that weren’t actionable, black panorama images, and some things in the UI that I just wasn’t into. Great app though! It’s really exciting to see multiple self hosted image apps being developed. I kept launch configs and customizations and will give it another look in 3-6 months.

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Opeth@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I actually managed to fuck the install up lmao. I run my own postgres so I used the image with extension from the docs. I picked version 0.1.13 since i thought a patch version wouldn’t matter, psych, it did. Had to go back to immich v1. 8something because it wouldn’t connect even after changing postgres back to the 0.1.11 version mentioned in the docs. Less beer more reading.

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- rambos@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Why dont you run 2nd posgres instance for immich only? Maybe there is a good reason that Im not aware of, but they changed database image in 1.91.0
  
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Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Any idea how it compares to Synology Photos?

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- CCMan1701A@startrek.website ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I think you can use Synology photos as the backup for the images and this as your front end … But not sure haven’t done it.
  
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  - Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I’ll look into that, thanks :)
    
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- rambos@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I have no idea, but I heard only good things about both of them
  
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  - Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Thanks :)
    
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- WindowsEnjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  A bit off topic, but Synology Photos is not vendor-agnostic and open source sofrware that you can host on your RPI or home server. It’s Synology NAS specific, isn’t it?
  
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  - Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    That’s right, yeah. I’ve already got the NAS and my photos are on it though, so for my case, I may as well use it unless it’s got any flaws or deficiencies :)
    
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agimus@startrek.website ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I am a bit confused what is meant by:

“You can do this by connecting to the immich database as a superuser and running…”

How do I connect to the database exactly?

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- doeknius_gloek@feddit.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Use something like pgAdmin, DBeaver or the pg cli to connect to your postgres instance. Then run the command from the changelog as a SQL query.
  
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- MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  You only need to do this in a specific scenario, “Note: If you are running your database with a non-superuser role for Immich”
  
  If you’re running the docker stack that immich provides you don’t need to do this.
  
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SpecGeo@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Over the holidays I experimented with Immich, especially after they added support for existing folders. These are my initial thoughts comparing it to PhotoPrism.

I find the application quite appealing; it runs more smoothly on both web and mobile platforms compared to PhotoPrism (PP). However, it lacks the polish and some of the features present in PP, such as sidebar options for different views.

The face detection functionality in Immich differs from PP. It works well, especially when identifying younger versions of people. However, it struggles to distinguish between many mother-son pictures, and sister-sister. I adjusted the threshold, but now I have to manually merge clusters of images. It’s inconvenient that I can only merge 5 clusters at a time, and there’s no way to change this in the configuration. This limitation is frustrating. However, the ability to have multiple accounts and share photos is a positive feature.

I appreciate the story-like feature that shows what happened ‘n’ years ago, but it’s disappointing that others you share the library with can’t see it. Also, the mobile and web applications lack consistency; for example, merging photos and getting suggestions for existing names is not possible on the mobile version.

My feelings about Immich are mixed, and I hope the app continues to be developed and improved.

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Shimitar@feddit.it ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
40+ years of photos already sorted into albums and sub albums make immich useless to me. I am using LibrePhoto which feels slower but works as well.

We will see what the future holds for both projects.

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- SpecGeo@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Immich supports external folders now. You can mount them as read only.
  
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  - Shimitar@feddit.it ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Interesting… But worth migrating from LibrePhotos? Does immich support base-path? To reverse-proxy as whatever/photos instead of photos.Whatever?
    
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LemmeeUser1@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Anyone tried to install this on casaos?

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- Kir@feddit.it ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yeah, it’s running Great. Use the BigBear shop version, it’s basically ready-to-go
  
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Fewer Letters	More Letters
NAS	Network-Attached Storage
RPi	Raspberry Pi brand of SBC
SBC	Single-Board Computer