Selfhosted

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...

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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.

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

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.

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

Yahoo! Congrats to the Immich teams and developers!

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.

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!

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.

Hopefully they improved face tagging. I can't work out how to add a new person's name.

How does this compare with Ente?

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.

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?

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.