High performance self-hosted photo and video management solution
Community still locked to proprietary MS GitHub + Discord?
No, they can quit whenever they want, they just don’t want to.
Thank you for mentioning what it is/does. Too many announcements I see don’t do that.
I really need to take the time to
- install (or even update) my local instance
- try a batch import (any hint?) from iOS (iirc the app did work well, just takes a while the first time)
- setup the ML part (on a 2080ti, so that also will probably take time initially)
The first big import will always take time if you have a lot of photos, as will the associated machine learning processing. I’d say you don’t need a GPU like that for normal use though.
Does it mean I would do the first import on desktop, including ML, then I could switch the resulting data (via e.g Docker) to a RPi5 if I get <100 new photos per day?
I’m not sure I understand. Whatever machine is hosting the Immich server will be doing all the processing. Uploading to there will go as fast as your internet connection/storage speed can go, and ML processing will be based on the processing power of the server. You can also manage the ML tasks if you want (Administration > Jobs and/or Settings).
Whatever machine is hosting the Immich server will be doing all the processing
By default yes but it’s possible to do remote ML, cf https://immich.app/docs/guides/remote-machine-learning so my “ideal” setup would be all on RPi5 BUT initial ML tasks (because it’s going to be > 100GB of photos at first) either directly on my PC with GPU or remotely (cf guide).
You can also just do the initial import on a NAS. It might take a day perhaps but, honestly, does that matter?
I love to see it evolving but I also wish it was stable enough to be auto-updatable
It is, I’ve been auto updating it for almost 2 years. Just needs a quick fix every now and then.
Obviously make sure your backups are working properly.
Apparently the stable release is planned for the first half of 2025, so you may not have to wait too much longer!
Pretty decent piece of software. Been using it for a while and it hasn’t really had many issues. Got it set up with my synology NAS and I like it.
I love it. I’m going to be deleting my Google Photos account soon.
