I've been using Ente Photos, and PhotoPrism and I've been liking Ente pretty well. Little bit more work to get things setup and going but I've been enjoying it for the last few months
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What low-effort app do you recommended? I hate messing around with networking stuff, but I'm willing to build a home server, if that means I can finally get away from Google Photos. It must have HEIC support and a "memories" feature (where it automatically creates albums sends me notifications about what it wants to show me).
Probably be Ente even if it does take a little bit to configure it and get a web UI and stuff. PhotoPrism was easy for me to get up and running with Proxmox and the great community scripts to setup a container but having to have photosync is a drawback I don't care much for.
I believe both have something to like a memories feature
Yunohost seems pretty good. I've only had experience with CasaOS as a self hosting framework.
I run all my stuff in Proxmox
@dogma11 I'm hoping to put #Promox on a Dell Optiplex Micro soon. I'm currently running Yunohost on Cloud VM and on a RaspberryPi locally. Looking at configuring backup at the moment and also seeing if I can work out how to do the config for #Zigbee2MQTT so that they can add that as a supported application.
Nextcloud. Works super well.
It doesn't matter what software you use, Apple doesn't allow automatic backups on their phones. Consider buying a different phone that allows you to use it as you see fit.
That is not true, it is completely possible with systems like Nextcloud and Owncloud. I have one set up at home and it's great.
The phone app auto-uploads your chosen pics directory's contents to your chosen cloud backup folder on a schedule or any time you want. And it's free software.
Does it automatically delete pictures when you're out of space ?
No, and I wouldn't want it to. I have plenty of space on my server anyway.
No not on the server, on the phone. You know how it fills up with photos?
Photo sync claims it does and as I mentioned in the post, I’m okay with needing to trigger it myself via its own app.
You shouldn't be okay with that.
Do you need a hug?
Uhhh I'll take one if you're giving them 😃
Immich has completely replaced Google Photos for me, love it!
My only bugbear is that it is updated very frequently (what a nice problem to have!) which in my case requires a manual once-over of my docker-compose file every time in case there are breaking changes.
I go the other way, auto-update and fix the file if it goes down lol
As a developer myself I'm not sure if I would trust any application to safely handle a configuration that has become invalid due to a breaking change, especially not an app that is still under active development! Better safe than sorry.
It's docker compose changes (at least the ones in the last 2 years have been), so it's not really config related with a worry about breaking stuff from that.
But also multiple backups are in place anyways, so worst case I restore from that.
Like everyone is saying, Immich.
But keep an eye on updates because it is under active development so breaking changes tend to happen every once in a while.
Does Immich auto update / breaking changes?
The server doesn't, except if you have watchtower or something similar.
The app auto updates on your phone though, unless turned off.
Damn. I think a few updates have happened on the App but not seen an issue yet. Guess I'll update the docker image when an app update does break it - family don't use it often and I don't want to manage their phone updating the app.
Luckily the app is generally (but not always) backwards compatible. It'll just nag you to upgrade the server.
Does Immich auto update
Only if you auto-update the docker images on your server.
There have been a few breaking chances, but it just takes a minute to tweak the compose file and it's up and running again.
Apparently docker images must be manually updated, so currently I don't. Thanks for the info.
On itself it doesn't auto update, you do get a notification in the app if your server is outdated.
You can setup watchtower or something similar to update it but it is discouraged due to the active development
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