What are you using as a Google photos alternative? Currently I’m using Nextcloud but I’m thinking of switching to a more dedicated solution.
I mainly need to upload photos from my device automatically, have an UI to see and classify them, albuns and sharing.
supersheep@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Immich: github.com/immich-app/immich
Rootiest@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Definitely Immich.
There’s a lot of these kinds of services, hosted or self-hosted that are labeled as a “Google Photos replacement”
But very few of said services have features like face matching and object recognition alongside automatic backups.
IMO it’s not a legitimate replacement for Google Photos without those features and Immich really delivers on that without compromising your privacy.
Alborlin@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Hi is there a guide for Complete Newbie like me , right from how to download this software(I could not find link or anything resembling.exe for installation,) upptill how doninput it on my zorin os laptop and setup my and my familys phone to upload photos to our own laptops via immich. Like a a book idiots guide to xyz… Kind of thing
bazzawhite@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Looks interesting. Just wondering if anyone has tried Mylio which also looks promising and has many tools for de-duplication and tagging which I quite like in Google Photos.
ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.com 10 months ago
In this community anything that isn’t open source is not going to be relevant to the majority. It sure does look like a competent product though but I question it as an alternative to Google since it’s going to be tough to survive when one is pre-installed and automatic without any user intervention on pretty much every android phone and the other I hadn’t even heard about until now and I’ve researched alternatives…
I think they’d be smart to make their free version open source to assuage the concerns about risking that the product dies and all tagging etc becoming useless / wasted effort. Even though I understand the reluctance because the primary motivators for going premium aren’t really open source compatible (pay for more devices etc.)
ad_on_is@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It is great, but the mobile app becomes slow AF when I import all my google photos which are thousands of them. Even after indexing has finished.
qjkxbmwvz@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
How many photos? It’s a very good user experience for me, with 123GB library (23k+ photos, 1k+ videos). Fairly entry-level Samsung phone and iPhone 13, both work great.
Running on an Orange Pi 5 Plus.
Absolutely love Immich. Was previously running on an RPi 4 w/4GB RAM, but with the other services I had on there I needed to disable ML. Orange Pi 5 Plus (16GB RAM) and it’s just a dream. Kicked off ML/facial recognition before bed and it was done in the morning. Migration from RPi to OPi was straightforward.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 10 months ago
Holy shit, this is incredible.
qjkxbmwvz@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
It really is. I absolutely love the shared link functionality, with the ability to easily set an expiration date and manage existing shared links.
It’s made taking pictures a lot more fun for me.
Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Anyone has a working nixos config for immich? I don’t get the containers to communicate with the host database.
RecitalMatchbox@lemmy.world 10 months ago
kressle.in/…/immich-on-docker-with-nixos.php This works for me
tgxn@lemmy.tgxn.net 10 months ago
Yep, Immich is tha bomb! Able to completely clear out google photos!
Vex_Detrause@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
I’ve been on my 3rd install of linux mint and immich. I can’t seem to make it work. I can’t mount my second hard drive so immich can see it. I’m gathering up a strength for the 4th install.
Jawa@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Hey, not sure how in depth your linux/docker knowledge is. Please disregard if irrelevant. I would recommend you pick a fixed mountpoint for the drive and set up a systemd service to mount the drive for you (systemd .mount file). Then you add an extra line “RequiredBy=docker.service” (look for systemd RequiredBy) This way the drive always has to be mounted by the system before docker is started and should always be visible before you start a container.
Hope this helps :)
vulgarcynic@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Pleased that I came to this thread looking for a good answer, clicked this link and opened in my preferred browser for project tracking and saw it was already starred in GitHub. Guess I need to actually deploy an image finally and stop lurking for an answer. Lol