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v2.0.0: Stable Release of Immich (complete with Merch and DVD) (github.com)
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cross-posted from: https://kbin.melroy.org/m/foss@beehaw.org/t/1225798

After: ~1,337 days, 271 releases, 78,000 stars on GitHub, 1,558 contributors, 31,500 members on Discord, 36,000 members on Reddit, 68 languages on Weblate, Surviving the controversial announcement about joining FUTO, Having overwhelming success and support from the community with the product keys model, Launching the Merch store, Attending our first FOSDEM, ...and before the release of GTA VI We are thrilled to announce the stable release of Immich! πŸŽ‰

I'm really excited about such a large project adopting semver! I never got the trend for software without a need for rapid release cycles adopting purely time-based version numbers.

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[–] ReginaPhalange@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I was planning on starting to host my own Immich server for my family. Like I did for other futo projects, I paid, even if there is no technical reason to. Does anyone know what the "sever key"/"client key" thing is? I'm imagining that a client key is what goes in the immich android app, and a server key is what goes in ther server admin console?

The thing is that if I want to be considered as someone who uses FOSS ethically - and I'm hosting for my family - I don't want each of them to purchase a client key.... In my eyes - purchasing a server key in that price should at least give me some leeway, and the small number of clients I plan on supporting would not be considered unlicensed...

[–] ammonium@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

It does https://immich.app/blog/immich-product-keys

But as far as I understand the key doesn't really go anywhere, it's just a fancy way to suggest a donation. (And there's nothing unethical about using FOSS without paying or contributing back in any way)

[–] pfr@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 14 hours ago

Why are their official communities on Reddit and Discord? Why not a Mastodon or Lemmy community?

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 67 points 1 day ago (7 children)

We aim to introduce additional paid services (not paywalled features, as we will never implement paywalled features), which will help support the project and that enhance self-hosting, making it easier and more reliable. First among the many services already planned is an end-to-end encrypted, off-site backup and restore feature, built directly into Immich. This will enable a buddy backup feature as well.

I love this.

Free features, but offering actual useful services for self-hosters (encrypted cloud backup). Great business model for a project like this.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Having their own flagship instance, like Ente, would go a long way toward providing funding. I bet Ente is making a whole lot more money.

[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

They said they will do that in a FUTO video I can't find right now.

[–] ook@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It sounds great, but Immich wouldn't be the first to go back on such promises when it becomes convenient. Hopefully thanks to funding via FUTO it might not ever happen, but who knows. Appreciate they write it out, but it is not like that is legally binding.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 12 points 1 day ago

Home assistant is still clean years after introducing nabu casa

[–] FundMECFS@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah this sort of bitwarden / nextcloud funding model is great IMO.

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[–] q7mJI7tk1@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

The absolute irony... I've used Immich for nearly 2 years without fail; it's never skipped a beat. Today I update to the stable release and my Immich mobile app now has a sync error warning. This is the first issue I've ever had.

EDIT: Phew! Clear File Cache in mobile app has sorted the error. For a moment I thought the universe was against me.

[–] pfr@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 14 hours ago

No such trouble for me, thank goodness

[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah i cleared data and relogged. It's just easier that way lol

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 day ago (4 children)

God damnit, now I need to set up k8s and install it.

I've been putting off moving out of Google photos for years. No, no, I shouldn't spend the time to host it. It has that scary banner.

Way to ruin my weekend! /s

Congrats Immich Team! /and if you're listening, thanks!

[–] nucleative@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

There's a really nice Google Take-Out parser for immich that will preserve all your meta data during import. It was kind of a dream to use, it worked so smoothly.

In my case, I moved about 100k photos and videos, and I'm still periodically finding old flash drives and SD cards laying around that were never imported, so im using the migration to catch up on decades of photo archival. So far, all good.

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 2 points 18 hours ago

If you have linux on machine(s) k3s/rke2 is pretty easy to get going.

[–] Decipher0771@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago

I was going to finally do k0/k3 or something kubernetes to set it up. I managed to get it going scalable with just docker swarm. So the kubernetes procrastination survived another deployment!

[–] mmmac@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

K8s prob overkill if it's just you and your family

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Whew… I was thinking it may have been a requirement now.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

K8s is pretty cheap for fault tolerance

Two VM's and two Pi

If my wife decides whe wants to watch the wedding video or the kids first TKD break and it's down, she'll clamor to move back to Google/Apple. I can also move my piholes over there and some of my arr stack.

Resillient hosting for zero cost is pretty hot.

[–] mmmac@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If fault tolerance is what you're looking for I'd suggest a minipc over a pi, specced higher for the same cost and muuuch more reliable long term in my experience

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The nodes go on x86. You use the pi's for control planes. They sit around doing pretty much nothing until a pod get's wrecked or upgraded then they spin a new one. You use 3's or 4's clocked down to save power.

You really only need one, but for $50 two gives your fault tolerance, fault tolerance.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Ok I’ll ask. I’ve been doing containers for a while now. My day job is in virtualization/networking/storage so this shouldn’t be that hard. But I just can’t get my head around kubernetes. Between work and home I have enough hardware to choke a robotic horse so that shouldn’t be a problem. Are there any good resources to get me started?

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 21 hours ago

When I started with it, I looked through references all over and just felt f'ing lost, and I do this kind of stuff all the time. I am intimately familiar with AWS and Azure, but setting K8S up is just very different than the normal stuff we're used to. I'm big on installing a package and screwing with it until it works, but this doesn't work like that.

At the risk of being criticized here, and I'm very sorry if you're strongly opposed to AI, consider asking ChatGPT or Copilot to guide you through setting up Kubernetes step by step. Out of desperation, I figured I'd give AI a shot, and for the most part, it was really great at teaching it to me.

Ask it to give you the different options for setting up Kubernetes on your home lab (there are numerous ways to do this). You can save a lot of steps by using something like Rancher (k3s), which is a simplified version, but I prefer starting with the official kubeadm first. It's harder, but it gives you a better feel for what's happening, and it's more capable and closer to what you'd experience when crafting a production deployment.

Indicate your level of experience in the next prompt and specify which systems you're familiar with so it can tailor training to your existing knowledge and play to your strengths. Ask it to make a lesson plan first, and then pick what items you want it to walk you through. If anything feels weird or you have questions, stop it and ask away. You're working on something from scratch, so there's little to lose if it gets something wrong, but honestly, teaching technical things with tons of documentation available is probably the best use of LLMs that has ever existed.

If you decide against AI, focus your research on Docker cli, Kubeadm installation (the control plane/controller) and creating/joining nodes, persistent storeage and networking, K8S Namespace, then pod deployment. Complicated parts that might hang you up are getting logs from PODS that die on startup, and getting interactive prompts in a cluster are a little different than Docker (have to specify namespace)

For persistent storage, you then have numerous options. For a homelab, I like Longhorn; it's a RAID-like system that stores data blocks across the nodes, and it easily backs up to S3 if you want it to.

For homelab learning and testing, I just crapped out a Proxmox and started 3 VMs, setup kubeadm on the control plane and then joined two nodes, then spent I an hour getting NTFY to run in it for the first time, I really should have done a python hello world, NTFY is fiddly. But, it's super fun to stop a VM and watch the app come back up like nothing happened.

Once you get a base system up, whatever you choose, do check out https://www.ansibleforkubernetes.com/

Jeff Geerling did a bang-up job on the book, and it supports his cause. It just doesn't go into the detail you need to get started with k8s.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 19 hours ago

Two nodes doesn't provide quorum

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 98 points 1 day ago (2 children)

1,337 days

🫑

[–] chillpanzee@lemmy.ml 33 points 1 day ago

And before GTA VI.

Love it. Lol.

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[–] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I really like where immich is headed. Bought a license last week and finally deleted Google Photos.

[–] Fiery@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You mean you deleted App-Which-Shall-Not-Be-Named?

Edit: I'm just using the same terminology they use in their docs...

[–] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 35 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Awesome! But damn, I just installed v1.144.1 last night to play around with it. 😁

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you're running it via docker compose it's trivial to upgrade, and there are no breaking changes. Pull, down, up, you're done.

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[–] mierdabird@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Bro 2.0 came so fast I didn't even have time to do 144, like why did they even bother releasing that when 2.0 was coming the very next day lol

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[–] Railcar8095@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Only missing the workflows for my family to adopt it!

[–] ook@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

This is fantastic to see, but I recently moved away from Immich with heavy heart because of a simple issue.

I have a very minimal setup with just a RasberryPi and an external hard drive, I don't need to access anything from outside my home so it is not setup to be accessible via internet, just Wifi.

Since I am not home all the time I set it up that the hard drive goes to sleep after an hour or so of inactivity. It is not unusal that this means it gets to be in sleep mode for 8-10 hours once or twice per day, which I'd assume is better for its life expectancy.

Since an update this year though something changed for Immich, I think it was connected to the postgres database... sorry, don't remember fully since this was like 2 months ago. It would keep checking or writing on the drive and thus keep it awake the entire day. 24/7.

I found some issues on github that mentioned this from months ago and they didn't come to a good conclusion how to solve this, so unless this is adressed I cannot use Immich, sadly. Putting postgres on the SD card instead would probably suck for how long that one will be alive.

Edit: if anyone is interested, here is one issue I found on github that describes this https://github.com/immich-app/immich/issues/15918

Edit2: found another https://github.com/immich-app/immich/issues/11569 Apparently it was healthchecks and I didn't test if that would solve the issue for me, I might try again with a small setup.

[–] nucleative@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

Your's is an interesting edge case but maybe the best solution is keeping a folder full of pics on an external drive and plugging it in only when you need it?

[–] artyom@piefed.social 10 points 1 day ago (9 children)

it gets to be in sleep mode for 8-10 hours once or twice per day, which I'd assume is better for its life expectancy.

It's actually the opposite.

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[–] Sunspear@piefed.social 18 points 1 day ago

Ooh this is great news! I guess it was both an entertaining experience and a chore at the same time bumping the server version every once in a while to keep the mobile app functioning.

Huge props to the team, it's one of the best pieces of software I've used in quite some time.

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