PhotoPrism vs Apple Photos currently?
from Railison@aussie.zone to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 25 Sep 00:44
https://aussie.zone/post/13961622

So the final thing tethering me to macOS is Apple Photos, which is really a fantastic program.

PhotoPrism looks like it’s improving quickly, but I was curious to know how it’s going today with regards to:

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jeena@piefed.jeena.net on 25 Sep 01:27 next collapse

I would suggest you have a look of immich.

  • Search filters ✓
    • Date ✓
    • Place ✓
    • Object/person recognition ✓
    • Text recognition ✗
  • Live Photo support ✓
  • Ease of importing ✓
  • Album support ✓, including smart albums ✗
  • Built-in touch ups ✗
  • General stability ✓

It also has mobile apps to do the backup and as a frond end on the phone. And what I really like is you can mount in your existing external libraries without copying all the pictures in and they will just be integrated automatically.

eternacht@programming.dev on 25 Sep 01:31 next collapse

+1 for Immich, I tried photoprism and had a lot of trouble importing and organizing an existing library. Immich works much more intuitively and had all the features I needed.

apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world on 25 Sep 01:57 next collapse

Usual precautions apply, the app does not bury the lede:

The project is under very active development. Expect bugs and changes. Do not use it as the only way to store your photos and videos!

jjlinux@lemmy.ml on 25 Sep 03:09 next collapse

Yes, I tried Immich but it’s basically a second job, no thanks. Photoprism is very good, but would need something like Syncthing to auto upload. So I ended up going with Libre Photo. It’s nowhere near as powerful as Immich in terms of features, but for my over 500K photos and almost 50K videos, works like a charm in ProxMox with the “UhuruPhotos” Android app.

JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl on 25 Sep 08:58 next collapse

Interesting. For me it was a set and forget. I check the change notes before updating every month or so, make a very small change to the yaml compose, and I am back in action in under 10 minutes.

Different experiences I guess.

jjlinux@lemmy.ml on 25 Sep 18:16 collapse

Are you hosting in ProxMox too?

JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl on 25 Sep 19:21 collapse

No, mine is just a docker container. Maybe there is something with that? Is your containerized in the VM?

jjlinux@lemmy.ml on 26 Sep 10:51 collapse

I usually create 1 LXC and install docker to it to use it as a template for any other LXC in the future. So, docker on a Debian LXC is how I did it. ProxMox in on bare metal though.

sxan@midwest.social on 25 Sep 11:42 collapse

Photoprism’s app space is pretty bad, but there is an completely hacky yet reliable solution for Android:

  1. PhotoBackup
  2. The PhotoBackup server on your Photoprism server
  3. A cron job that runs the photoprism import command every few minutes.

Since I’ve had this set up, it’s worked as well as Google Photos ever did for keeping my phone snaps synced to the server. It’s been more reliable than SyncThing for my data, reacting and syncing faster, and it doesn’t mysteriously periodically just stop running like SyncThing.

I don’t know if PhotoBackup is available for iOS, but if it is, it works a treat.

jjlinux@lemmy.ml on 25 Sep 18:17 collapse

Sweet. Never heard of this before. Thanks. I’ll take it for a spin over the weekend.

PoopMonster@lemmy.world on 25 Sep 12:03 next collapse

Good news is that it’s slated to go stable some time this year iirc.

apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world on 25 Sep 12:22 collapse

In keeping an eye on it. I use a rinky dink asustor solution for my photo storage and backups. It’s cludgy as all heck.

MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 25 Sep 16:31 collapse

I love that they clearly say that. IMO they should keep that notice around even later on.

Far too many people spin up some solution for photos or files, either selfhosted or some paid service, and use it as their only storage. Then they’re surprised when data loss happens.

apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world on 25 Sep 17:10 collapse

Yeah I’m no data retention expert but that is a huge risk.

d_ohlin@lemmy.world on 25 Sep 02:11 next collapse

This is a pretty accurate summary from my experience. The only thing I’d add is that (from what I’ve read at least) some form of ‘smart’ album functionality is high on the priority list and shouldn’t be too much further down the line. It may be a more advanced customizable logic type of solution (again from what I’ve read) but the functionality of putting person(s) ‘x’ into album(s) ‘y’ (or similar) should be achievable.

Railison@aussie.zone on 25 Sep 04:10 next collapse

Thanks for the suggestion I’ll follow it up!

MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 25 Sep 16:32 collapse

Immich has been great, I’ve been running it for something like 1.5 years now I think.

czardestructo@lemmy.world on 25 Sep 02:16 next collapse

As someone who has and still used photoprism for over two years and donated heavily…steer clear. Their update cycle is slow and the things they keep adding don’t seem helpful. Still no multi-user support. If you don’t upload new photos via photoprism using WebDAV you have to make your own scripts to watch for changes and refresh which took a lot of time for me to setup.

I’m just going to start using Nextcloud and Memories app going forward.

just_another_person@lemmy.world on 25 Sep 02:53 next collapse

Rsync

someonesmall@lemmy.ml on 25 Sep 18:51 collapse

I’m uploading to a directory using syncthing. It’s working perfectly fine without any scripts. I’m running Photoprism in a docker container.

czardestructo@lemmy.world on 25 Sep 23:41 collapse

So you have photoprism pointed to a folder but you push photos into the folder witb syncthing. How do you trigger the re-index or its somehow automatic? I run my photoprism in docker and I always had to manually trigger the index after changes to the folder.

someonesmall@lemmy.ml on 28 Sep 06:51 collapse

Yes, exactly. I push photos into the “import folder” of Photoprism. I don’t manually trigger the re-index but I restart photoprism at night using a cronjob. I am not using settings like “PHOTOPRISM_AUTO_IMPORT”. Contact me if you need me to investigate more.

Hawk@lemmynsfw.com on 25 Sep 08:46 collapse

As others have said. I left photoprism for immich and it’s much better