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Google Photos Alternative (lemmy.brennoflavio.com.br)
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What are you using as a Google photos alternative? Currently I'm using Nextcloud but I'm thinking of switching to a more dedicated solution.

I mainly need to upload photos from my device automatically, have an UI to see and classify them, albuns and sharing.

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[–] 117 points 2 years ago (56 children)

Immich: https://github.com/immich-app/immich

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  • [–] 40 points 2 years ago (14 children)

    Thread is over, because this is the only correct answer.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (11 children)

    Interestingly only one or two years ago, people seems tp recommend PhotoPrism

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago* (5 children)

    Yep, until PhotoPrism revealed themselves to be the greedy cunts they are.

    I sponsor my favourite tech projects annually, as I believe in supporting independent and responsible open-source development.

    I became a paid Github sponsor for PhotoPrism because they promised features like multi-user were coming, and they indicated that paid sponsors would get access. After what seemed way too long a wait, they finally released the features many of us had been waiting for, only to stick them behind a monthly paid subscription. For self-hosted users. 🤨

    So, I switched to Immich about 6 months ago. I've found Alex and the rest of the team to be very active, and quite responsive to support requests, including on Discord. Additionally, the development is fast-paced and new features are coming all the time.

    My money's going to Immich. PhotoPrism can go get fucked.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Nah. The Premium model is kinda bullshit. As a free tier open source user you will always be a second class citizen.

    Also everyone who wants to commit code has to sign away his rights for them.

    tl;dr maintainer gets money from open source contribution over the premium tier, but hinders everyone else to do the same with the AGPL licence.(kinda)

    That's not a good foundation to start off.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    So you think it is bad cause others can't take their work and make money off of it? Seems to be a real problem in open source right now that others are doing exactly that and something I don't begrudge a small development team doing.

    Not affiliated with them just been using and happily subscribed for a year+ now. Better than Google getting my money.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    No, i think it is bad that the owner takes away the rights from the contributors.

    AGPL alone does already solve the problem.

    But both, is not sustainable.

    Also the trademark owner can relicense the code anytime and just close the source. It is not community project

    I think many developer feel like me. Just look at the contributor list on both projects.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    Definitely Immich.

    There's a lot of these kinds of services, hosted or self-hosted that are labeled as a "Google Photos replacement"

    But very few of said services have features like face matching and object recognition alongside automatic backups.

    IMO it's not a legitimate replacement for Google Photos without those features and Immich really delivers on that without compromising your privacy.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Hi is there a guide for Complete Newbie like me , right from how to download this software(I could not find link or anything resembling.exe for installation,) upptill how doninput it on my zorin os laptop and setup my and my familys phone to upload photos to our own laptops via immich. Like a a book idiots guide to xyz... Kind of thing

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I think this is hard to answer because there's no "one way" to do this.

    Do you want it accessible only in your house, and you're running something like a raspberry pi? That's one set of instructions.

    Do you want it accessible from anywhere in the world, with proper TLS? That's a little more complicated, and there are a million ways to do this

    do you want to self host and expose public IP? Self host using a VPN as the entry point? Host on a VPS?

    I would recommend playing around with it first. This is easiest if you can get a well-supported environment, so something like a raspberry pi is best IMHO if you want to play around with minimal frustration.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Hi thanks for your reply. I have laptop with external drive that i use as server at home. Ideally as easy part1 i would only upload pictures home, and would access them home only. This is not a public intelltual property, it's our photos so no public IP needed.

    What i am looking is

    My and familys phones are getting full of pics and videos, so instead of using Google Photos can we upload it our own server at home easily and wirelessly. If need be we can watch them on tv . That's it.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    “IP” in this context means “internet protocol address”. A public IP is one that can be accessed from outside your home (what you see when you go to https://whatismyipaddress.com/). A non-public, or internal, IP is the one your router gives your computer, frequently starting with 192.168. This can be accessed by other computers on your network but not from outside your network.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Looks interesting. Just wondering if anyone has tried Mylio which also looks promising and has many tools for de-duplication and tagging which I quite like in Google Photos.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    In this community anything that isn't open source is not going to be relevant to the majority. It sure does look like a competent product though but I question it as an alternative to Google since it's going to be tough to survive when one is pre-installed and automatic without any user intervention on pretty much every android phone and the other I hadn't even heard about until now and I've researched alternatives...

    I think they'd be smart to make their free version open source to assuage the concerns about risking that the product dies and all tagging etc becoming useless / wasted effort. Even though I understand the reluctance because the primary motivators for going premium aren't really open source compatible (pay for more devices etc.)

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I get what you're saying and usually I would prefer open source myself. However, Mylio has self hosting facility as well as end to end encrypted cloud storage option too. Does seem like a good product.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (8 children)

    It is great, but the mobile app becomes slow AF when I import all my google photos which are thousands of them. Even after indexing has finished.

    Edit: Scratch what I said! Just gave Immich another shot, and the slow mobile app was due to the initial background sync running.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    How many photos? It's a very good user experience for me, with 123GB library (23k+ photos, 1k+ videos). Fairly entry-level Samsung phone and iPhone 13, both work great.

    Running on an Orange Pi 5 Plus.

    Absolutely love Immich. Was previously running on an RPi 4 w/4GB RAM, but with the other services I had on there I needed to disable ML. Orange Pi 5 Plus (16GB RAM) and it's just a dream. Kicked off ML/facial recognition before bed and it was done in the morning. Migration from RPi to OPi was straightforward.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    What is different about an Orange Pi compared to a Raspberry Pi? Thinking about taking the plunge into self hosting and I'm looking for something easy and powerful.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Big difference for me between the RPi 5 and orange pi 5 Plus is more RAM and m.2 NVME support on board. It also has four additional efficiency cores and dual 2.5G NICs, but that's less important to me.

    Downside is it has a less polished ecosystem.

    Overall though I've been happy! But I also love my collection of raspberry pis, so it's a matter of taste I guess.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    I have 1.8TB of pics and videos on my server and it all runs fine in browsers or the app. Perhaps you could look at disabling the machine learning portion of it to save some overhead? For reference, my setup is:

    Server - HP Micro server G8 Phone - Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ Tablet - Samsung Galaxy S7+

    None of these are high end anymore, hell the server is ancient by computer standards. But I did put a GPU in it for ex hardware transcoding as well as machine learning for Immich.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I saw some github issue where someone reported the same.

    Trigkey S5 with AMD 5700U and 24GB ram. As I said, it is still slow, even after indexing has finished.

    I'd really love to use it. Tested Photoprism, but the mobile app lacks almost everything immich offers.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Anyone has a working nixos config for immich? I don't get the containers to communicate with the host database.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Pleased that I came to this thread looking for a good answer, clicked this link and opened in my preferred browser for project tracking and saw it was already starred in GitHub. Guess I need to actually deploy an image finally and stop lurking for an answer. Lol

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