I have been using immich. It supports user accounts and album sharing. And recent updates on the machine learning part have made it a even more potent replacement of Google Photos imo.
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This looks promising. Thanks for sharing!
Also using Immich, can recommend it.
There are still some rough areas though. For example its not possible to further share/download photos sent to you in a shared album. And the ios app is a bit janky when swiping through photos. No slideshow mode either.
Overall very usable though and getting updated constantly.
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Test driving NextCloud Memories. Looks nice, works inside Nextcloud (no need to set up and maintain one more service).
Main con so far - no mobile app
You can "install" it while it's open in your browser - good enough for me
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Nextcloud itself does have an app, though. Don't know if you'll still be able to use those additions or not through it.
Have you looked at NextCloud? I have an instance running on an RPi that fits my needs (storage without sharing outside the home firewall). For anything that needs sharing, I just copy those images to an old Dropbox that I've kept and share from there.
Nextcloud on it's own can't read images EXIF data so it can't sort them by date. I've tried Memories addon and it seems to work well, except for transcoding movies.
Good to know, thanks. I generally sort by hand if they need sorting, but using EXIF would be a nice time saver.
Nextcloud works well for general files. Immich is the way to go specifically for photo storing. It's got a whole lot of added features.
I hadn't heard of Immich. I'll take a look. Thanks!
Immich. I recently set it up after having bounced around trying a few others, such as PhotoPrism and Synology Photos. Immich is truly excellent. I'm excited to see how it develops further!
Yeah, seems like Immich is kind if taking over. It really is an excellent one stop solution for automated multi-user backup. Ive been using it for a few months and its solid.
The other option that I really like is a combination of software: Nextcloud + Les Pas. Nextcloud is the server where images are stored in a flat folder system, and Les Pas is an android photo album app that organizes and manages the albums. Its super nice and has some really advanced organization features. Worth checking out if you want to use nextcloud as the storage server.
I've been using Photoprism. Single-user is fine for me. I see lots of people switching to immich, but haven't checked it out myself.
Photoprism supports sharing albums via link to people who don't have accounts. Mine is remotely accessible using Tailscale. I would like to set up proper remote access via DNS, but haven't made that leap yet, I'm too nervous about opening ports up.
I'm happy with photoprism too. I paid for the photosync plugins.
I don't love the free-mium model, but you can edit your docker config to unlock it I hear.
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Haven't looked into sharing read only access, but you can look into this list
https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#photo-and-video-galleries
Another person using Immich.
It supports importing existing photos, so I pulled in all my old folders of stuff.
Also has multi user with album sharing and all that.
I recently started dumping all my photos at Immich. WIth every release it becomes greater and greater. I donated to the developer to keep it going. And I need to make a script to automate the DB backup
Photoprism is one user only, maybe some day they wil implement multi user. You can donate to give them an incentive to work more on it. For me it is good enough.
They do support multiple users, but they gated the feature behind a subscription.
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Like many people here I'm also planning on moving to Immich. It frankly looks amazing and it has a TrueCharts version, so it should be relatively easy to deploy on TrueNAS Scale. I'm going to wait a little longer though since it's still in relatively active development and there are quite a lot of breaking changes that I currently don't feel like dealing with.
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I just use a folder of photos and then use digiKam to manage them. But it's just me, I don't need to share photos with anyone else. I like digiKam but it doesn't play great with concurrent users out of the box. I think there's a way to use a shared database though.
I sync them to out local fileserver using syncthing and recently started using immich (since it supports custom libraries now)
It sounds like we have similar setups. I do the same with syncthing, works great, and not only backs up my photos but everything else on my phone like custom ringtones, notifications, exported backups from many different apps along with full neo-backup exports... basically all the common /sdcard/ directories like: Audio, Backups, DCIM, Downloads, Pictures, Documents, Screenshots etc.
I'm interested in immich for it's multiuser sharing so I can easily share photos with others in the house. I have a huge directory of images, all sorted in folders, so until I can add that read only, immich isn't an option for me. I tried setting it up with the monolithic docker image, and it didn't import the directory the way I wanted it to, and seemingly made full copies of all the images into it's own upload directory when I tried importing with the cli-tool. I was looking at it recently and the read only mode seems early stages. How do you like it so far?
Immich seems like it's aim is to be firstly a phone photo backup solution... and that is not what I want... I already have a backup solution. All I really want is a mobile friendly way to look at all the photos I have already. PhotoPrism works exactly how I want but the one feature it lacks that I would really like is multiuser. I have seen there is a workaround for sharing with PhotoPrism where you can run individual instances for each user and then share a common directory... and right now that is preferable to immich for me unless they sort out the read only feature.
I’m using the PhotoSync app to backup to Dropbox and to my local HDD from multiple phones and tablets. Seems to work like a charm. Better than the shitty Dropbox iOS photos backup for sure.
Same here. Apple Photos for all the photos I want to be able to access every day, PhotoSync to mirror everything onto my NAS.
Currently just using Synology photos but with an eye on immich, as others have mentioned and plan to switch now that it has facial and object recognition. At this point it can do everything I want and has the benefit of being open source.
You have a Synology and Synology photos will do the features you mentioned (multiple users, different permissions). While I wouldn't recommend it now over Immich I'm curious why you went with photoprism initially?
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Saw recently that Shadow, the cloud PC company, has now a next cloud based storage offer: shadow.tech
I'd be interested by any feedbacks if somebody gives it a try !
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Synology Moments, which is their older version of their photo app. I still use the older version because it supports object recognition. I just wish it had a map view.
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Prism is my go to ..it's allright but I am still looking for new options. Have heard good things about Immich so might look at that
I installed immich thinking I could use it to access my entire pictures collection that I had stored on my hard drives only to learn it currently does not support that.
Luckyly I saw the other day there is already a PR in the official repository trying to implement that, so I may wait for a bit to Immich to have this importer.
So, what, it only lets you upload pics remotely but not view? I do not understand.
I was thinking of trying it out but the huge banner saying not to trust it for anything important makes me hesitate every time.
Sorry, my explanation was not very clear. Check this thread: https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/1006 this is what I was talking about
Followed that guide. Got redis and postgresql14 installed. When installing immich I get an error in the log that says "error:password authentication failed for user "postgres". I've trirled every combination of changing password, no passwords whatever. It never works.
It doesn't have that feature you linked but you can do a bulk upload if you wouldn't mind them hosted then in 2 places on your storage.
I'm planning my homelab, and from the research I've done, Immich is the best but not ready for production and it can't use an already existing photo library. NextCloud memories is the next best alternative, and supports already existing libraries.
Immich can use existing libraries, either by importing (copying) existing files, or just by adding an existing folder of files in place.
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immich!
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