@neil For uploading I use syncthing, rather than the built-in sync. Actually, I have my (docker) Immich container connected to a read-only volume, so that Immich is just a readonly frontend.

My workflow: image on phone as synced to linux box using syncthing. There a script using exiftools and rdfind to rename, move and dedup them into my main archive and then I copy them into a separate folder for three months that are synced back to the phone.

@neil I have been running it for a while now, friends and family members are the users. Super happy with it, now we don't rely on some tech giant to never lose all of our photos.

For mobile app it is very important to allow background activity in the OS settings of the app, otherwise the upload doesn't work.

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Seems like you handled docker/podman part rather good =)

What are you reservations about face recognition? It's done fully locally, with photos you presumably took with permission of those in photos.

Also, a word of caution for anybody using immich: immich is not a backup solution. You sometimes (rarely for me, but YMMV) can get a file corruption on transfer. So something, like your rsync, in parallel is still a good thing to have.

@neil been using it for a couple of years now. Auto-syncing from iOS is seamless in the most part. I’m running it on a Pi with a large SSD attached for storage which works okay. It does sometimes get a little bogged down when transcoding video but all the other processes (face recognition, thumbnails, etc.) work well. This is definitely a hardware issue though.

The search still blows my mind.

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How is the object/face recognition? I try searching for a specific person in Nextcloud photos, but it's a bit hot or miss.

#Immich #Nextcloud #Photos

@neil Yes, it's really good.

I have but two gripes, everything else is excellent. I want yyyy-mm-dd dates goddamnit even if my locale is English. And the somewhat more UX-relevant "don't show all my albums/photos always" aka "safe for work" mode (which, turns out, is really quite hard a problem to generally define and have a good UI for!).