Recent convert to immich and hugely impressed by the software and project - one of FOSS’s shining stars. Good work everyone.
It’s only good for phone photos though. If you also take pictres with a camera, it doesn’t have any clear way to handle those.
It sure does, just put them in an external library and scan for them, that’s what I do and it works flawlessly
Hm, maybe I ought to look at it again then. Thanks for the tip.
Is it still braking changes when upgrading to a newer version?
In the past it felt like I was running an alpha version, which I spend more time fixing, than enjoying its features.
It’s written all over their website that we have to expect breaking changes. This year they will release the first stable version tho.
Really great software. Works just as you’d want and has enough stylisism and flow too.
Immich sounds so awesome I plan to start using it soon.
I just set it up this week, I was just settling with nextcloud memories before. Night and day difference.
A few pain points in the process but overall was pretty easy to set up and even add 2FA (though I can’t say authelia was easy to set up to do so), and once it’s off the ground it’s super smooth
Got an authelia config a man can bum?
I can never get it working.
Would depend on what reverse proxy you’re using, I saw they replied with Caddy, I set it up using Traefik instead
Absolutely. It was a pain in the ass to get up and running, but it’s running smooth with this setup. You can probably streamline and clean this up a bit but it’s working for me:
Also just to note, the caddyfile changes aren’t necessary for Immich, that’s just for any service without an integration that you still want to lock down. Immich’s integration is pretty straightforward once authelia itself is up and running.
Reminds me that now that all my data is processed (in particular the heavy ML part) I should move the resulting container data to my (much less powerful but always on) NAS.
If it helps, I have an ml container on my more powerful machine and have my Immich insurance pointing at that, then the local NAS container in order. If it’s on, it powers through (so I turn it on if I’m about to dump a batch of photos) and if it’s not it churns slowly through (e.g. if my phone uploads one or two).
It’s super easy to do! Would recommend.
Ah nice, I was aware of the remote ML instance option but I didn’t know it was optional, i.e. if it’s there rely on it, if not still work. I thought it was either do ML locally ALL the time or do ML remotely all the time.
Is it just an optional ML endpoint on the NAS instance pointing to the ML only container on the more powerful machine on the same LAN?
Been hosting on my Synology NAS for a while now. This is app kicks hard. I love it.
Still requires docker?
There’s some people who have managed to get it working under podman
I am curious why not docker? it s pretty convenient in my setup (docker compose + traefik). If I need to migrate it s really simple, if I am to nuke a service just bring it down and delete the path.
Not on NixOS!
services.immich.enable = true;Yeah. I’m also waiting for a native Ubuntu package, I don’t want to deal with Docker.
If you’re using Arch, the AUR package works well
I’m fully aware of the joy of containers, but I just don’t want all that extra faff
Extra faff?
The additional software required to run it in a container plus its configuration, on top of Immich’s configuration.
Just install & configure Immich, done.
Thats… Just… Docker compose… You copy, paste, docker-compose up and you’re done…
I’m planning to do it with podman. It’s supposed to be quite easy to convert between the two.
Can confirm, works without problems in rootless podman.
Can you give me some pointers? I’m still new to docker and podman; hoping to get this going without too much learning curve to start with!
Sure, I set it up in nixos though this is the short form of that:
spoiler
- Install Podman and passt + slirp4netns for networking
- Setup subuid and subgid
usermod --add-subuids 100000-165535 --add-subgids 100000-165535 johndoe - I’m using quadlet’s so we need to create those: $HOME/.config/containers/systemd/immich-database.container
[Unit] Description=Immich Database Requires=immich-redis.service immich-network.service [Container] AutoUpdate=registry EnvironmentFile=${immich-config} # add your environment variables file here Image=registry.hub.docker.com/tensorchord/pgvecto-rs:pg14-v0.2.0@sha256:90724186f0a3517cf6914295b5ab410db9ce23190a2d9d0b9dd6463e3fa298f0 # hash from the official docker-compose, has to be updated from time to time Label=registry Pull=newer # update to newest image, though this image is specified by hash and will never update to another version unless the hash is changed Network=immich.network # attach to the podman network UserNS=keep-id:uid=999,gid=999 # This makes uid 999 and gid 999 map to the user running the service, this is so that you can access the files in the volume without any special handling otherwise root would map to your uid and the uid 999 would map to some very high uid that you can't access without podman - This modifies the image at runtime and may make the systemd service timeout, maybe increase the timeout on low-powered machines Volume=/srv/services/immich/database:/var/lib/postgresql/data # Database persistance Volume=/etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro # timezone info Exec=postgres -c shared_preload_libraries=vectors.so -c 'search_path="$user", public, vectors' -c logging_collector=on -c max_wal_size=2GB -c shared_buffers=512MB -c wal_compression=on # also part of official docker-compose.....last time i checked anyways [Service] Restart=always$HOME/.config/containers/systemd/immich-ml.container
[Unit] Description=Immich Machine Learning Requires=immich-redis.service immich-database.service immich-network.service [Container] AutoUpdate=registry EnvironmentFile=${immich-config} #same config as above Image=ghcr.io/immich-app/immich-machine-learning:release Label=registry Pull=newer # auto update on startup Network=immich.network Volume=/srv/services/immich/ml-cache:/cache # machine learning cache Volume=/etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro [Service] Restart=always$HOME/.config/containers/systemd/immich.network
[Unit] Description=Immich network [Network] DNS=8.8.8.8 Label=app=immich $HOME/.config/containers/systemd/immich-redis.container [Unit] Description=Immich Redis Requires=immich-network.service [Container] AutoUpdate=registry Image=registry.hub.docker.com/library/redis:6.2-alpine@sha256:eaba718fecd1196d88533de7ba49bf903ad33664a92debb24660a922ecd9cac8 # should probably change this to valkey.... Label=registry Pull=newer # auto update on startup Network=immich.network Timezone=Europe/Berlin [Service] Restart=always$HOME/.config/containers/systemd/immich-server.container
[Unit] Description=Immich Server Requires=immich-redis.service immich-database.service immich-network.service immich-ml.service [Container] AutoUpdate=registry EnvironmentFile=${immich-config} #same config as above Image=ghcr.io/immich-app/immich-server:release Label=registry Pull=newer # auto update on startup Network=immich.network PublishPort=127.0.0.1:2283:2283 Volume=/srv/services/immich/upload:/usr/src/app/upload # i think you can put images here to import, though i never used it Volume=/etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro # timezone info Volume=/srv/services/immich/library:/imageLibrary # here the images are stored once imported [Service] Restart=always [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target default.target- systemctl --user daemon-reload
- systemctl --user enable --now immich-server.service
- enable linger so systemd user services run even if the user is logged of
loginctl enable-linger $USER - Setup a reverse proxy like caddy so you can make access to it simple like immich.mini-pc.localnet
Docker to rootful podman is easy. Docker to rootless podman can get annoying due to the file permissions and slightly more limited networking
Is it easy to self-host immich so that it operates on a READ-ONLY basis with my images? I really only want to use it for the local-AI indexing/search, but not as a backup or photo management solution (Synology Photos works just fine for that).
Yes, set the external library bind mount in the docker compose project to
:ro(read only).Figured it out :) It’s indexing my media now!
Yes, that’s how I use it. It has access to a read only bind mount of my photo directory. The ML doesn’t write exif data to the images, just keeps that in its database.
You can also try out photoprism for that. Immich is best for an all-in-one solution as a replacement for google photos.
Photoprism also has face recognition, maps, and many more features geared towards photography than immich.
I realized after using photoprism that I am too basic for that haha
I don’t think Photoprism has contextual search. Anyway, immich installed and running on my NAS 🤭
I think you can use Immich external libraries for this, also to be extra safe you can just mount your external images folder as read only by adding
:roto the docker volume mount so that the container won’t be able to modify anything as a precaution.also to be extra safe you can just mount your external images folder as read only by adding :ro to the docker volume mount so that the container won’t be able to modify anything as a precaution.
This is what I was thinking, too.
Alright, looks like I’ll be setting it up soon! LOL
Yes, pretty easy - that’s exactly how I use it
