the color scheme of that icon physically hurts to look at
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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 -f
And for the love of god don't go for latest, just stick to the release tags
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.
Do not have docker containers auto update.
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.
Unless the container follows semver and only auto updates minor versions.
Edit : Which Immich isn't.
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.
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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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Looks interesting, thanks for the rec!
Is there a way to semi-easily import my Google Photos archive?
You can use Google Takeout to request all of your Google photos to be downloaded
And don't forget to change the default file export size. The default is 2gb, which for me resulted in over 300 files to download and there's no easy to way to automate it. 50gb is max which was much better for me
I tried the larger file size, but my internet is slow and google kept pulling the plug on my download. Even with a download manager it was un-resumable. Finally, I just re-exported at 2 GB and now I have to babysit the download of 23 different files.
This blog post taught me how to download directly to my NAS using curl. https://michelenasti.com/from-google-photos-to-synology-photos/
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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.
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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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.
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 |
2 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 5 acronyms.
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I updated without reading the breaking changes. Dummy me. I'll get it running when I have some free time again. But yeah, love that program and how much it's grown!
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 :/
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.
Have you tried the Immich app? I know in general iOS has such restrictive power management that syncing can be unreliable.
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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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.
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
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 my launch configs and customizations and will give it another look in 3-6 months.
Playing with the demo, it lacks adding text/captions and reordering photos compared to Google Photos. Any other suggestions?
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:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/aug/22/google-csam-account-blocked
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!
I am not concerned about that. Business primary goal is to make money, and Google is business, so any free service is temporary, especially if not powered by ads.
Any idea how it compares to Synology Photos?
I have no idea, but I heard only good things about both of them
Thanks :)
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.
I'll look into that, thanks :)
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?
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?
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.
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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