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Immich 3.0

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by p4bl0

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I teach a free software development course to my undergrad students. It's really exciting to stumble upon one of the work they did for my class in the wild (it's the first listed bug fix — which is the last of the three pull requests this student got merged in Immich during my course). I feel so proud! :)

by FabCH

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A lot of people talking about encryption in the comment section, thought I would share my setup. I have been running Immich for family and friends on a Hetzner auction server for about 1.5 years now.
Hetzner community provides official full-disk encryption documentation:
https://community.hetzner.com/tutorials/install-debian-with-...
Letsencrypt gives free reliable SSL. You can easily hide Immich behind Nginx proxy that handles SSL for you.
Add cron based automated backup of the entire Immich data to a local encrypted NAS and there you go. Reliable, end-to-end, encrypted at rest setup. So far, it required exactly 0 maintenance.
It’s also more secure because I just drop traffic from all but 3 geographies at the IP level. And you can also add a WAP on the Nginx proxy.
It is also more more secure than Google/iCloude because the „employee of the company“ attack vector is much smaller. It’s documented that Google looks at your photos and is perfectly happy to file false police reports: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/08/googles-scans-private-...
By comparison, yes it is theoretically possible for Hetzner employees to access my server physically and extract the encryption key from RAM, or setup a fake SSH server to try to steal the key, but that is far more complicated attack and hasn’t been documented yet. And it risks detection.

by slaye

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An incredible piece of software, on par with Google Photos. I've been using it behind Tailscale for months with no problems ever since I first got into homelabbing.
Actually, moving from Google Photos to Immich after I hit my 100GB storage limit was the whole reason I got into self-hosting, and what a fun ride that has been!
I can't believe self-hosted products of this caliber are free. Huge shout-out to HomeAssistant, PiHole, paperless-ngx, Dawarich, and countless others for the same reason.
Congrats to the team on the release and thank you for helping me catalogue my personal memories

by AussieWog93

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So many comments here about missing end to end encryption, but seriously - why would anyone want this?
Lets say burglars break in and steal your homelab. Because you don't have e2ee, they can see all the photos you saved of your dead grandmother! Oh no!
Or, in the more likely scenario that something happens to your phone, the lack of e2ee means that even if you lost your keys you didn't lose the only memories that remain of your grandma - you just copy across the .jpgs to a new device.

by Cider9986

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When I was switching to GrapheneOS from iOS, I decided to self host my photos. I considered Immich, but I settled on Ente because of the encryption. Ente Photos is extremely polished and it's comparable quality to Apple photos.
It's cool they keep the server open and selfhostable instead of only open clients like many e2ee projects do.
I like how you can share an album and anyone can contribute to it without an account. Another cool feature is that you can select photos to lock when you hand your phone to somebody so they can only see the ones you selected without your device unlock.

by oliyoung

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Immich is such a no-brainer replacement for Apple Photos or Google Photos, combined with VPN like Tailscale, it's almost a drop in replacement

by phikappa

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There's a lot of things I spent a ton of time setting up, use once, and then never again. Tons of things that are easy to set up, and provide small benefits every day for a long time. Immich has got to be the thing that I've spent ages setting up, use extremely infrequently but the one time a year I use it I'm so happy I did. Great software.

by cromka

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I have a different bash with them than the lack of E2EE: they do not make it easy to import from other servicesvlike Google Photos or iCloud, which should be a priority.
They rely on immich-go project, which is ridden with bugs and basically abandonware by now. Their own iOS app, which can also be used for syncing iCloud gallery, has outstanding, 2 y/o or so bugs that will fail to upload the Live Motion photos.
My photos exported to Immigh have some 9000 broken, half imported Live Photos and I just don't have time to fix that.
The fact that THIS is not their priority, the most comprehensively A-B tested feature is beyond me. Who cares about OCR if you can't trust that they didn't butcher your imported memories? I just don't get it!

by brewtide

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Does anyone have any pointers on the best way to import roughly 14 Google takeout chunks into immich?
I've downloaded all the chunks once, only to find them corrupted due to... Their 50gb size and using a browser in theory. One also cannot seem to use wget or alternatives because of the auth / session cookies required via Google takeout.
I've yet to even broach the aspect of importing each giant bundle into immich because I've not had success in even grabbing the takeout files correctly, but would LOVE pointers on the best way of importing the roughly 700gb into the database without it ALL going wrong.
I've had great success with immich running in docker for the past year or so, although I have yet to upgrade to the newest version. Google photos backups have been disabled on my phone for a year or so, but I yet to haul in all of the past years.
Also, anyone know if I can get immich to upload the photos without... Running immich once in a while? Would be great if it just automatically sent them to "my cloud".
Great software.

by psadauskas

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Has the ios photo sync gotten better? I've got 20k photos on my phone, and last I tried it filled up the storage on my phone with the originals, and never completed the process, even after leaving my phone open, unlocked, and the immich app running in the foreground for several days, on the same local network as the server.
I know they were working on it, but haven't kept up, I just want to know if it works better now and I should try again.

by MohamedMabrouk

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Immich is an amazing software. I use it regularly as an alternative along side Google photos. I keep in it large videos that I wouldn't upload normally to Google photos + the snappy experience at home vs Cloud-Bades solution.

by poisonborz

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I wish they would better support external image sources - images not uploaded/managed by Immich, just a folder of images it has access to - especially if it's read only. It mostly works, but the UI and logic breaks in a lot of little ways.

by firen777

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> Upload asset directly to album on the mobile app
Does this fix this problem? https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/12748
It's a pretty big issue for me having multiple devices and multiple people who want to pool pictures of our cats together in one album.
Currently I have to do this kind of set up:
1. Syncthing sync our photos back to the homelab server hosting immich - /mnt/Syncthing/a1/cats/ - /mnt/Syncthing/a2/cats/ - /mnt/Syncthing/b/cats/
2. cron job copying (hard-link) the photos to a folder mounted as read-only external library volume - /mnt/immich/ext-lib/cats/
3. cron job to run a script that automatically creates albums from external library folder structure: https://github.com/Salvoxia/immich-folder-album-creator
4. cron job clean up photos in the syncthing folder that are older than a year to free up space for our phones (~1TB total. Yes we have problem)
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That said, congrat on the 3.0 release. Although I'm slightly bumped out because I literally just discovered this program a month ago and stabilized my self-host set up just one week ago.

by palata

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How does the mobile app sync work with Immich? My use-case is that I want to install the mobile app on the phone of my relatives (including iPhones), and it should keep syncing their pictures "forever" even though they never, ever open the app.
I tried Nextcloud, but the apps/server end up failing to sync after at most a couple month, and it's painful to recover from that. So it doesn't work for me.
I have been considering Immich and Ente, but I would love to know if somebody has experience with that.

by leastangle

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Migrated 700GB of photos from Google to local Immich. The whole family uses it and we’re happy to be supporting the project!

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by wookmaster

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I've been self hosting immich for the past 6 months. It's pretty awesome. The App has some performance issues but the web is flawless. I cut down on my iCloud plan since I deleted most of my videos from it. I use restic to manage backups with my own key offsite.

by f_k

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Shameless plug: I made a native iOS/Mac app that's adjacent to Immich, but narrower in scope. It focuses on local image search and photo organization.
Everything is indexed and searched locally, so the photos never leave the device.
https://photos.getsupercurate.com

by onel

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Great app! Great to see the progress with it.
The biggest complaint has always been how hard it is to self-host it, but that's not true anymore. If you have a good underlying system that handles all the boring stuff, you can actually have a pretty good experience.
I'm biased because I'm building an OS for this, and it makes spinning up imich so easy.

by qsera

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I have come to the realisation that I don't need 10,000 photos. I probably need < 100. I will print them and keep them in a paper album...
Which I am yet to do...

by master-lincoln

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I would switch immediately if they added support for non-photo elements in albums like google photo has. E.g. texts and maps. And the option to chose the order of album elements yourself.
These make my albums feel like small blogs which really adds to the experience when sharing e.g. travel albums.

by totetsu

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I have a bunch of spare s3 compatable storage from a cloud provider which I would really like to use to run Immich, but everytime i look into it it seems not possible.

by apples_oranges

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Does it have image editing tools like rotate and crop and is it aware of basic exif metadata?

by penetrarthur

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Has anyone personally upgraded to 3.0? How is the experience?

by mopsi

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Does Immich support read-only source folders yet? I'd like to keep the original files intact, but allow Immich to index them.

by thenews

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Immich is amazing, been using it as a backup since my phone is always full

by rewgs

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Immich is the best self-hosted app I use. Hats off to the developers!

by sylens

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My only disappointment with this release is that the beta version of workflows does not have the ability to sort photos into albums by face detected (yet). That’s what I’ve been waiting for as both Google Photos and Ente support smart albums

by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS

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I got annoyed with Immich and external storage, because in order for every user to have their own facial recognition data on a large set of photos, you have to add the folder as external storage for each user, which means image previews for each user, even though the source image is the same. So if you have 3 users, you use up 3 times the space for the same thumbnail image.
It got to where I had 20% of my space was just thumbnails for each user, even though it was one set of images in the external storage.
Maybe that's changed recently.

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by DavideNL

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I don't want yet another self hosted service to manage (update, backups, possible hardware failures, energy costs, ups, etc.).
Unfortunately Immich is not end-to-end encrypted. If that would have be the case i'd use https://pixelunion.eu/
Seems like a great app though. So... i'm still pondering what to do :-)