Tag: immich
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Using Photoprism and Immich in Tandem Across Three Machines
Reading Time: 3 minutesI have an HP laptop running Photoprism, and two Raspberry Pi 5 running Immich. One of the Pi devices is running Immich, solo, and is made accessible via Tailscale when I am on the move. Photoprism runs on the HP laptop and is not available at all times. When the laptop sleeps,…
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On Immich and Gemini Help
Reading Time: 3 minutesIt’s interesting that my use of Immich has evolved with my adoption of Gemini. I know that the cool thing would be to vibe code an Immich clone, and then show off about it to the world. I don’t want to do that. I don’t find it interesting to re-invent the wheel.…
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On Familiar Faces and Forgotten Names
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s amusing. I look through Immich and Photoprism and I am struck by how many names I have forgotten, but how easily I remember certain faces. I’m also curious to see how I remember certain names after scrolling through faces yet to be identified. Decades ago when I was playing with iPhoto…
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Migrating from Google Photos to Immich Via Google Takeout
Reading Time: 5 minutesIn an ideal world Google Photos, iCloud Photos, MyCloud (Swisscom) and other photo backup solutions would back up your photos into a directory structure that you can access and download from with ease and convenience. Unfortunately non of them want to offer that. That is why finding a workflow to get data…
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The Mature Phone Photo Backup Landscape
Reading Time: 3 minutesMany years ago, if I took photos with a nokia phone I had to sync them via a memory card. With the arrival of the Android Nexus on and the Apple iPhone our digital photography habits changed. With time we would leave our cameras at home, and carry our mobile phones, and…
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On Self Hosting and Having Multiple Devices
Reading Time: 4 minutesI grew up in the eighties, and 90s, and so computing, open source software and the world wide web grew up with me. In that time we went from going to magazine shops to buy mags, and cd shops to buy CDs, and book shops to buy books. We also took photos…
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Immich and Picasa – Past and Future
Reading Time: 3 minutesThose of us that are geeky, and old enough, will remember when apps were local and we saved data to internal and external hard drives. We would take photos with a camera, or a phone, and once we got home we would download them to our computer, using apps like Picasa and…
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Immich and External Libraries
Reading Time: 3 minutesOver two or three years I have been playing with Immich. In that time I have exported my photos from two or three phones multiple times. The reason for me importing photos multiple times is that every so often I update immich and something breaks. It is at this point that I…
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Immich and an M.2 NVMe Drive on a Pi
Reading Time: 2 minutesImmich is an easy to install and use app that works well with the Pi5. By default you will have it run on the SD card but yesterday I finally found an NVMe drive at a reasonable price so I swapped the AI kit for a 521 NVMe drive.It was detected with…
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A Move from Self-Hosting on a Pi5 8gb to a Pi5 4gb Continued
Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I shifted my data and setup from the Pi5 8gb to the Pi5 4gb with relative ease. I rsynched the data from one Pi to the other, brought up the docker containers, checked that they were working before shutting down the other Pi. I then swapped the 8gb Pi with the…