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
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
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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.
Immich supports external folders now. You can mount them as read only.
Interesting… But worth migrating from LibrePhotos? Does immich support base-path? To reverse-proxy as https://whatever/photos instead of https://photos.Whatever?
Never used Librephoto, regarding base path support I don’t think Immich supports that.
No it doesn’t. Seems devs don’t care. Anyway, testing immich now, let’s see.
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.
How do ppl think of immich Vs photoprism? I dislike photoprism because every action takes 10 seconds
For me Photoprism is unusable for the simple fact that they don’t support multiple users. Also Photoprism doesn’t have an official app which I can easily use on my phone to sync photos.
I think photoprism supports multiple users.
If you pay $72 per year…
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.
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.
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…
Ask yourself what your “job” in the homelab should be: do you want to manage what apps are available or do you want to be a DB admin? Because if you are sharing DB-containers between multiple applications, then you’ve basically signed up to checking the release notes of each release of each involved app closely to check for changes like this.
Treating “immich+postgres+redis+…” as a single unit that you deploy and upgrade together makes everything simpler at the (probably small) cost of requiring some more resources. But even on a 4GB-ram RPi that’s unlikely to become the primary issue soon.
the color scheme of that icon physically hurts to look at
Wow! You found the problem. Congrats!
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.
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 -fAnd for the love of god don’t go for latest, just stick to the release tags
