Hi all,
So recently my immediate family had expressed interest in getting some kind of photo share platform for us to share vacation photos more easily. We’ve done a Dropbox with extended family years ago, but that sucked to hard that it even managed to put my non-techy family off of doing that again.
So what are some ideas you all can think of? I’ve seen Immich mentioned around here before, but I’ve honestly never set up even a real homelab or sever before, so that’s a bit daunting. Their google photos-esque UI is a bit plus as everyone but me uses that.
It wouldn’t need to be open to the internet, local WiFi would work as well really just need to be able to share photos between our phones more easily once we get back from a trip. I’ve got an older laptop with like 8GB RAM that I could run the server off of.
Sorry if this is really vague. I’ve just been given instructions to “find out what’s out there” by my non-techy family and I figured you all here would have a better idea of my options. Thanks!
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Yet another vote for Immich, I’ve hit a couple bumps along the way but overall think it’s amazingly simple to use after getting it setup.
Immich is the correct choice
Immich
I got 5 users, over 1TB photos and videos, continuous syncing from Android, AI search, OCR search, you name it, all works great. The only thing at that size is that it needs SSD storage or SSD caching. I got ZFS pool with SSD cache and it’s blazing fast. On disks alone, things are a bit more difficult.
Immich squad. I dont want to scare you off but the right way is to combine it with tailscale and immich public proxy. That way hackers cant easily access all ur fotos but you can still share em
There’s Nexcloud and the “Memories” plugin. It’s not as good as Immich though, especially if you don’t need the rest of NextCloud.
As many have suggested immich is the answer I have tried a few others but immich is the answers.
Immich on Yunohost.
I’ve seen Immich mentioned around here before, but I’ve honestly never set up even a real homelab or sever before, so that’s a bit daunting.
I haven’t been in this space for too long either, but immich is what brought me here. I tried it out locally - no deecated server, just spun up immich on my desktop machine to try it out. And it was just so good it made me want to have a server and learn the ropes.
I’d recommend you try it out this way too. We’ll see each other on the other side of that rabbit hole. ;)
Ente
if you buy a nas and some hardrives, the nas os usually has an app repository, so you fibd immich and click install. that will be the easy , non-technical way to do it
Photoprism is what I use.
If you install proxmox on the laptop there is a community script to install and setup photoprism. Lots of other neat services you could run too. Relatively beginner friendly.
There are android and ios apps for photoprism that will auto upload new images from your phone to the photoprism server.
