Apples photos also has this feature, and it was one of the last things keeping me from self hosting photos.
Gonna start a mirror for my photo library now and see how it stacks up.
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You can mount the directories into immich, even read only if you want.
Do you have any recommendations (or pointers) for a “secure” blob storage host i can put my personal fam pics on and mount that to immich?
I have a (mid-tier) linux VPS running somewhere, some ideal setup would be to mount the blob and show/share pics via immich on VPS, and i will automate putting the pics in the blob from all the devices we own
I just run my immich instance on my desktop computer and mount the external hard drive there.
I'm not sure about the speed if you'd mount a local drive or a s3 bucket via fuse.
As usual Hetzner is always a solid choice - their Object storage is more than solid and comparably cheap - Personally I would not transfer to your VPS though as Immicg can get funky when latencies are too high. Just run the cheapest VM there that can take Immich.
Alternatively IONOS is doing a lot of good things as well these days,but they are slightly more expensive.
But Ionos has unlimited egress. Basically a flat fee per TB.
Haven't heard about this project before. I was using a self hosted Nextcloud instance so far. What would be the benefit of switching to immich? I guess immich does have some advances features, like the tagging was mentioned, specifically for picture management.
As someone who used both, the biggest difference is a nicer and much faster UI for photos, oh, and you can search images for contents
I love Immich, i think it's a great replacement for Google photos.
So. Much. Better. I love Nextcloud but Immich uploads just work, private AI tagging, better UX, maps, it's just better.
I guess you only use the standard Nextcloud photo app, not Memories. It is very comparable to the features you describe + if you have already set up your Nextcloud, there is no need to work with yet another software on your server.
If you already use Nextcloud, try the Memorie-Extension. It has all the features of Immich. The tagging-feature for faces has been there for at least the year I am using it now.
But immich does so much more than faces. I searched for "tent on the beach" the other day, worked like a charm.
Memories also uses automatic tagging, so searching for tent and beach would probably get you the same result. But I guess they are not using the best recognition software, I get a few missinterpretations here and there. (My marzipan potatoe with googly eyes is not an 'Instrument'. But I guess it's a challange for any software)
I think it's much easier to use across devices, no lag, quick processing times, and a really transparent and active developer
I'm waiting on two things from them and then I'll be truly happy (I use it anyway)
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A stable branch release so no more breaking changes
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The ability to upload single photos to an album from the mobile app, not run a backup.
Cool. Hopefully Ente does this. I don't self host like I used to.
Still leaning on containers? I'll wait, if that's the case.