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minus-squareSuzune@ani.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up37·7 days agoI tried Photoprism, Ente and Immich. Immich is by far the best. It has got an app that really does what it should do, has an AI that actually works and is easy to host and to update.
minus-squareDancingTable@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·7 days agoLast I tried Immich its background upload was horrible. Some of that is definitely iOS being bad, but other apps at least semi-worked when Immich didn’t at all. I might try it again, though. See if it’s improved.
minus-squaresbird@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoWhen I used iOS, background upload seemed to work okay. On both iOS and Android, though, I occasionally go into the app to manually backup since both like to kill background processes to save on battery life.
minus-squareSuzune@ani.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·7 days agoI honestly have no idea if the iOS app works properly.
minus-squareScolding7300@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 days agoDo you conbect to your immich instance remotely when not home or just dump the photos once home?
minus-squareSuzune@ani.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·7 days agoI’ve got Wireguard running. As soon I am on wifi, my phone uploads the new pictures.
minus-squareFiery@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 days agoTailscale with a subnet router running for my home network makes it so that I can just connect to 192.168.50.57 from wherever I like.
minus-squareGhoelian@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-26 days agoI use nextcloud as a general drive, where I also upload photos automatically. Then I just mount the images folder in my immich container.
I tried Photoprism, Ente and Immich.
Immich is by far the best. It has got an app that really does what it should do, has an AI that actually works and is easy to host and to update.
Last I tried Immich its background upload was horrible.
Some of that is definitely iOS being bad, but other apps at least semi-worked when Immich didn’t at all.
I might try it again, though. See if it’s improved.
When I used iOS, background upload seemed to work okay. On both iOS and Android, though, I occasionally go into the app to manually backup since both like to kill background processes to save on battery life.
I honestly have no idea if the iOS app works properly.
Do you conbect to your immich instance remotely when not home or just dump the photos once home?
I’ve got Wireguard running. As soon I am on wifi, my phone uploads the new pictures.
Tailscale with a subnet router running for my home network makes it so that I can just connect to 192.168.50.57 from wherever I like.
I use nextcloud as a general drive, where I also upload photos automatically. Then I just mount the images folder in my immich container.