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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.
Yahoo! Congrats to the Immich teams and developers!
I'm excited for the roadmap of better sharing, group management and improved ownership. Unfortunately in its current state having a shared "family" library of pictures next to personal pictures is only possible with various workarounds (and all of those have significant downsides). Until then I'm just using it for myself, but it's been great so far.
Indeed, it's the top issue for number of comments: https://github.com/immich-app/immich/issues/12614
That and this one are really what keeps me stuck in "evaluating": https://github.com/immich-app/immich/issues/165
Right now, immich just points at a read-only copy of my pictures for trying things out. Nextcloud copies the pictures off device and then deletes them locally -necessary for family who always take long sports videos.
A couple of questions for those who have used it. Does it back up the video snippet portion of the live photos? Does it have webdav support so I can backup to pcloud? Can it backup to multiple places, like my local harddisk and the pcloud storage?
Don't think it has WebDAV support but you can use rsync to back up to pcloud. That's how I handle it.
Also, by default when you upload files to Immich it creates it's own directory structure but they have Storage Templates you can enable/customize to make it more human readable so the backups are more useful if looking at them without Immich.
Another option of you want more control over the directories themselves is External Libraries... but I don't believe uploading works with them, so you'd have to manually manage them outside of Immich (which kind of defeats the purpose IMO)
Does Immich still require you to store all user photos into the same central directory?
I can’t move my family from Synology’s offering until I can be sure each users photos will be backed up to their own accessible drive.
I think they're organized into individual user directories (in one location), so could probably set up a directory backup per user to their own device if so desired.
I saw a Linux program that could let you setup a virtual mount with different rules for where each folder actually physically pointed to - like symlinks but with much more customisation. You might be able to use that to setup Immich to save different users to different drives
Each user has a subdirectory, I dont see a reason you couldn't symlink them so they actually reside on different drives.
You can store uploads on a different drive if you want also.
How does this compare with Ente?
All photos in Ente are E2EE — only client devices can decrypt it. Immich doesn’t have any encryption thus allowing anyone who manages the server to view your photos as they are. Immich is fully self-hosted while with Ente you have an option for paying Ente or self-host. I honestly prefer Immich because the features outweigh the encryption as I own the server myself and Ente is a bit complicated to setup — I think you even have to deploy the entire Ente Ecosystem Stack.
I just pay for ente to host for me so I like the E2EE. If I self hosted I would consider Immich with media stored in an encrypted zfs volume
Hopefully they improved face tagging. I can't work out how to add a new person's name.
On the phone app you go to Library -> People -> "Add a name" at the top.
The iOS app on my phone doesn’t have that option.
"High performance self-hosted photo and video management solution."
Finally! Been waiting for a stable release since their roadmap. Really glad I don't have to treat it as a very experimental service that breaks once a while anymore.
Huge thanks to all the contributors who made this possible.
Kudos! 🥳