Immich pt1 - A Closer Look - See How It Compares with Google Photos Before You Switch

[@shawnneldon]

Can’t wait for part 2! 🎉

[@AskTheRealDrBrown]

I didn’t wait and was rewarded. Ed has his own docker which makes installation a breeze. 😊

[@couzin2000]

@@AskTheRealDrBrown I see the docker yet I still am unsure how to proceed. Waiting for SI1.

[@shawnneldon]

@@AskTheRealDrBrownare you talking about the PostgreSQL_Immich container?

[@AskTheRealDrBrown]

@@shawnneldon yup. Was easy to figure it out. Immich now runs fine

[@buddylee7-jy8mr]

I'm having issues setting up the machine learning part. Curious how you got that working.

[@Iam2lazy2register]

I am really impressed by Immich. One thing to note is that google photos is actually also using the cloths of people to identify pictures of them on the same day, so it can even tag people that are photographed from behind or only partly visible, which makes it insanely good at identifying them

[@mr2octavio]

And that it's done with a computer, imagine what can be done if you're wanted or similar. For how you think, look or behave.

[@azulshusband]

all 69k subs are waiting for pt2. i know itll be worth it when it comes out

[@mattrt12]

cant wait for pt2 Ed....love your work

[@maschinelab8598]

same here! SI1 is the boss!

[@Mad-Jam]

Can you do a video please how you prefer in unraid to do a 2nd server backup. Feels like there are 100 ways to do it. I'm stuck what way is secure, free and good.

[@HubertusGamingHub]

FINALLY! I was waiting a whole week for this video to drop. Thank you sir! :)

[@smaiderman2]

Part 2 hyped. Thanks for your work!

[@ryanandrewbaker]

Can't wait for part 2. I tried and failed on my onesies but this looks amazing. Thanks for highlighting this, i'd love to move away from google photos.

[@Clayton-Noyes]

Thank you Ed, I am building up my Unraid Server to serve my family and home, I always look forward to learning more about what Unraid can do from your videos. Keep it coming. Love your content.

[@MP-mt1py]

C'mon part 2!! I need a weekend project

[@MyeWireless]

Thanks for the video. I will be installing after the part 2. I have been confused about the database version edits needed.

[@Whatupdays]

You need to install Immich, Redis, and PostgreSQL_Immich and update the repository to tensorchord/pgvecto-rs:pg16-v0.2.0. It pretty much just works after that. I'm looking forward to his part 2 video.

[@ilord666]

@@Whatupdaysi would like to use it but am new to unraid and dockers..

[@ourlordsauron]

Wow, I am floored by how intuitive Immich is! I'm really excited to try it out

[@DanielBrown89]

Come on part 2!!

[@StuartKicks]

I was using OneDrive and Google Photo to backup photos from my phone. My pictures stretch all the way back to 2010. I've just set up Immich on my home server, I've set the data directory to within a folder in OneDrive so that's a remote back up. I also run a manual job to backup the same files to another local machine that I have. The Immich app is great!

[@vasilebogdanbujor8308]

the reason I am looking into into your unraid videos is exactly to switch from google photos to immich! thanks

[@couzin2000]

Where's part 2 bro? Great vid, but us noobs are waiting!!

[@droopie]

im loving how u do a part 1 - showcase , part 2 - install, of the apps. great idea!

[@mpxz999]

I really like how Immich is looking so far, but the inability to add ones own tags to an image, be it of a face or even just a general tag "Christmas" is extremely disappointing.

[@CharmPeddler]

Perfect timing. I'm just getting my first unraid server set up and figured out, and I was hoping to have some kind of local photo equivalent to Google photos. I will say that the sharing of photos with other people is just as easy on Google photos. And also with Google photos. You are in fact able to change the photo album cover picture.

[@dynamohums]

Very useful video - thanks! I'm in the process of setting up Immich and transferring all of my Google videos/photos to it (I've 2TB of them so currently going through the laborious process of running Google Takeout to download them...). Regarding facial recognition in Google, I set this up a while ago and it works fine in the UK. I can't recall the exact steps, but I think it was just as simple as connecting to a US server via a VPN and then enabling the option in Google Photos settings.

[@dkerlee]

Excellent! Love that you started at the review end vs the howto end. Immich is fabulous and will get more daily use than Plex.

[@MrLurker101]

Great idea to start with an intro to the product and a comparison. can´t wait for p2 :) Would be great if I don´t have to need the extra google storage anymore. It is a bit dependent on the phone app features. But I really need to try this out.

[@thordomr]

I really hope prt2 releases soon with an installation tutorial.

[@johnrussell5823]

Same here can't wait for part two also!

[@johnrussell5823]

Any idea when he will post this?

[@Michaelp715]

Part 2 Let's go!

[@johnrussell5823]

Bummer was hoping this would be up already :(

[@davidjhi]

Another one waiting for pt2!. Generally i can do good by myself, but i like your approach with most containers, so ill wait for you!.

[@moonstomper68]

Eagerly awaiting part 2, Immich seems a no-brainer compared to Google which I stopped using about 3 years ago and Amazon Photos is a right pain in the arse.

[@adventureseeker423]

Waited so long for this!! Thank you!!

[@ericcosta1743]

Great video! I'm looking forward to the quick and easy install video. Will that be out soon? Thank you!

[@DannyStammers]

Nice timing! I've been revamping my server for the last month or so, and I was about to look for a photo solution. Still weighing my options.

[@runthejules91]

as always, super well thought out and great delivery. Cheers from the US!

[@PaulShadwell]

Can't wait to see part 2.I tried using Immich but I could get the iOS app to see all the images on my iPhone only selected images. I ended up uninstalling it.

[@valiantkni]

When are you uploading the howto install :)

[@Slickpic87]

Great video. Thank you. I have to figure out how to migrate and maintain a backup of Apple photos. I think this is a great application to start that.

[@valerynovoacolas9579]

When Will you delivery the 2nd parte?????

[@mo-zj7xs]

Nice!! I've been waiting for a solution like this for a long time. Had some dependencies but wasn't too bad to get installed thanks to your PG Container! Thanks!

[@jlmbkd]

It is so good to see you back and can't wait until part 2. Any chance you discuss ways to delete photos (assets) in Immich that have deleted from the external drive? I got Immich up and running (only because of watching all your excellent videos!), and it has already been great to identify which photos have incorrect dates and to clearly show duplicates. I've deleted some photos, but they still show in Immich with an alert that it can't find the asset. But I try to delete the photos in Immich with now luck. Searches have shown other folks use scripts to clean up the Immich files, but hopefully there is something easier. Thank you again!

[@esmall6487]

Another killer video spaceinvader one. Just installed and loving it already. Thanks.

[@JoeAnshien]

Thank You. Great. Looking forward to part 2. I have tried others and not impressed. I think this will fit the bill as long as it will use existing folder setups.

[@jamesw801]

Please give us part 2 because I still haven't been able to set it up

[@UCAVids111]

Great video, we need a countdown to pt2, so I know when I should be clearing my calendar. I am interested to know if I deleted a file on my android phone in google photos app, if it would be deleted in immich.

[@darphox]

Been looking for something like this but didnt know where to start. Awesome vid!

[@FrostyButters]

Hey Ed. Great video. Any ETA on part 2?

[@laurikvo]

And plans to go through Dynamix File Integrity plugin? It would go well with this as photos of our love ones are usually the files we don’t want to corrupt. I know you have ZFS set up but many of us still don’t so having that plugin covered would be cool.

[@schweinchenoeff]

Sooo cool. Cant wait for the next Videos - by the way - really cute dog pictures!

[@ivanjuarez1412]

I really like this format , keep up the great work

[@masterrudi]

Would be nice to see how i can combine the cloudflare tunnel, immich and a 2FA!!

[@aerobrain2001]

Fantastic video! Already got a domain and cloudflare account so looking forward to the set up video :-) You may already have it in your set up video, but it would be good to know if there’s a way to move my existing Google Photos into Immich as part of that tutorial 😊

[@valerynovoacolas9579]

Great video...I am waitin for the Next parte to installes. I prefere dark mode....

[@musicjewell9329]

hope in pt2 you show us how to install it

[@hieroglyph321]

Thanks, actively looking into this so this was good timing. Nice one

[@johanneshepperle8390]

gogogo we need Part 2

[@IEnjoyCreatingVideos]

Nice video Ed! Thanks for sharing it with us!💖👍😎JP

[@comfy39]

I have been looking for something like this for so long!

[@dark_ant8377]

Great video as soon as part 2 is uploaded im installing

[@raedalghamdi3976]

i really like that you went through its features and compared it to google photo before going through the setting up guide. I'm new to self-hosting and you saved me a bunch of time looking up immich and if it's worth it for me so thank you! in this video you also suggested using a friends unraid to do encrypted backups for important data. i do find that very appealing especially that i have 2 friends with servers that would like it. do you recommend a certain container or app to do that?

[@jasonhnz]

He says near the end of this video he would upload the video on the Friday or Saturday from release of Pt1. That was over 3 weeks ago. Lets hope he is ok.

[@fallenfederation2643]

This is really limited. You cannot drag and drop folders, at least not that I have found. You can arrange by folders by using albums, but it all has to be done manually. I suppose I am a bit bias since I feel the same way with Google Photos. I would much rather have a image host that you can organize by folder and sub folder. If you want it to be auto organized and no control. This is for you for sure. Thanks for the video Ed!

[@KodessR]

You are just naming a file server. Like Dropbox and Nextcloud. Although, Immich is thinking about adding the feature you mentioned. They have something called external libraries. Which allow immich to 'just read' the files. Auto creating albums is not there yet, but a lot of people have created scripts for it. Kinda weird if you ask me. The whole point of immich/gphotos is that it automatically uploads your phone photos, and puts them in a timeline. Then I create albums of, for example, a vacation. I am interested in your folder/sub folder organization. I like browsing photos via the timeline because that's how I remember the photos. 'Look at these photos from the vacation in August. Oh yeah it was also the beginning of september.' And you can just scroll to the next month. Or you have created an album. You are saying its all manual. What automatic system do you have in place currently?

[@fallenfederation2643]

@@KodessR I just been using Nextcloud for that for the lack of better alternative. Immich seems to be pretty good but I don't have the memory for dates honestly, so it's a me thing not so much Immich. I just organize by folders Pictures/People/Harris or Pictures/Events/Easter/2003 then I don't need to remember anything, I would like something just for images so me and my entire family can use and combine in the same folder type structure. I know my family does the same. Something like Photobucket had in the early days. None of the image host dockers I have found so far have really been anything I been happy with either it won't let you organize by folders, or the system is extremely lacking in all features. Of course I could just be being picky lol.

[@mpxz999]

I agree. I wish immich would give us the option to organize our albums in such a way. I always wished we could do that on Google photos since the beginning too

[@koenkoppens]

Very nice, perhaps interesting to do a comparison between Immich and Photoprism (believe you made a video 2 years ago about Photoprism).

[@jeromeb75]

Some problem during install (postgres) but the software is very good. Thanks for this video

[@Chris_Cross]

I really like that there's a free alternative to Google Photos, and I love that the UI/UX is so similar that's it would be extremely intuitive to swap over. I just wish I had a server to be able to set it up so I can stop paying for Google One. Just not a fan of the Immich logo or typemark, but that's a minor gripe

[@dashaade]

Cannot wait to see you "how to install video". The was a great review of Immich. I have been looking for something like that for years👍

[@Parax77]

Can this app auto upload images from your phone?

[@JoeyDee86]

Can you share specific people automatically with another user? For example sharing kids with spouse

[@dkerlee]

That isn’t happening yet. I made a post on Immich Reddit about it. The main dev, alectran responded that some permissions made it tricky.

[@CharmPeddler]

This is going to be a big holdup for me. Everything else looks great though

[@YammyBoh7]

Part two please!

[@erhancevik6454]

as your first video to immich had seen i was impressed, i installed it immediately and what is very important for me is that it pulls photos and videos from my iphone, to 80% it worked very well but with larger videos it does not work, i have the nginx proxy manager in front of it maybe i have to specify the file size at conf file what is allowed? or what can be the problem, cloudflare is also in front of it which only acts as a proxy

[@diedrichg]

It's Cloudflare. It has to do with their restrictions and limits on videos and DRM. I have the same issue with PhotoPrism but get by the CF limitation by using LAN IP Webdav rather than Webdav over my public domain. The info can be found on CF's FAQs, if I recall.

[@kaizhel]

cloudflare limits uploads to 100mb. This will be an issue until Immich introduces chunking which will bypass this limitation.

[@seapanda-117]

I am using a Cloudflare tunnel and there are videos that I know for sure are over a 100mb and it’s working fine. Do the tunnels have that size limitation?

[@3xpired3lements]

@@seapanda-117No, there is only the 100 MB per chunk limit. People are always confusing this with the file size. You can ofc upload multi gb files, just dont totally abuse it on the free tier

[@ivanmalinovski7807]

I believe Immich has an entry specifically NPM in their documentation, that mentions something about file size limits, chunks or something, with a config to fix it.

[@FuzzDodue]

Thanks ! What about synchronising with a smartphone?

[@Goldmaster]

12:42 that rug really ties the room together

[@Dmitriy.0]

Can Immich have multiple users with their own photo libraries? Also, after the install tutorial, could you please make a part 3 that deals with migrating to Immich from Google Photos specifically?

[@SpaceinvaderOne]

Yes there is a part for using google takeout to migrate existing photos :)

[@SpaceinvaderOne]

Yes Immich can have multi users each with their own separate library

[@Dmitriy.0]

​@@SpaceinvaderOneAwesome! I jumped through those hoops when I migrated to Synology Moments. Immich sounds a lot more feature rich, and should be a lot faster on my 40-thread dual Xeon UnRaid server than Moments is on my gimpy 2-core Atom in the DS412+.

[@VitaliySunny]

Thanks for deep overview!

[@nathanweibel4939]

Bring on part 2!

[@simonemastellonephotography]

Please in the future video can you explain how to setup 2 factor authentication , i set up with cloudflare tunnel but is not working with imich on mobile, only if i use from descktop

[@Cralis1]

Could you tell me; are the files uploaded to folders, raw, as they were from the phone, and then linked to the photo album? Meaning, are the originals preserved, and maybe thumbnails generated for the app?

[@OLBarbok]

The worst part about google photos is them stripping your metadata if you want to leave their scummy service, unless you get an extra script somewhere off github to fix your "takeout" file you will never really have any dates or similar metadata on those files. Main reason why I started looking into self hosting my stuff from now on

[@Wolfethyst]

I've seen a ton of the web UI but how is the mobile? And can I set Immich as my phones 'Cloud Media App' so that when I go to upload photos, it'll pull up those in Immich?

[@jtrevathan33]

Dude! Beautiful dog! Immich is pretty cool too.

[@SpaceinvaderOne]

Ah thanks man. Yeah I love my dogs and immich !! Thanks for watching :)

[@sirgriffinman]

When is part 2 coming?

[@micklockhart2673]

Thanks Ed mate - great job!

[@eddyparker10]

I hope you see my comment, because I need help. Everything was working fine when with the version of postgres14 "tensorchord/pgvector-rs:pg14-v0.1.11" . I had no issues with that version and out of sudden Immich wouldn start. Turns out that I had to change the repository to "tensorchord/pgvector-rs:pg14-v0.2.0". Now is working properly, but only issue is that Immich duplicates each of my photos and is really fustrating. Any ideas of why Immich is like this?

[@alcxander]

great content, great level of explanation!

[@kaiser_sose]

Dark vs Light mode I think it depends on use cases. Studdies have shown that dark text on a light background is easier to read. I find it harder to read text in dark mode KZbin videos. However, dark mode looks better (for non-text reading) videos. That's why I prefer light mode for instructional videos. It also depends on whether you're viewing in a dark or light environment. Dark mode is better (as long as you're not trying to read text) in a dark environment, and the converse is also true.

[@technolucas3720]

Dark mode for most things, most of the time.....every once in a while I need something in standard "light" mode....great video. I really appreciate your content!

[@jonathans.8650]

Can you please adress the Problem of uploading big files? Without reverse proxy, I don't see any problem. But as soon as I activate NPM with CloudflareDNS, there is an Upload limit. Adding the "client_max_body_size" to the Config doesn't change anything. So it might be the 100 MB Upload Limit from Cloudflare. Maybe you can bring a solution to this? Might be chunked uploads?

[@peterpanisz8604]

It would be nice if you could hide photos in an Album from the main "Photos" tab

[@smokie365]

Part 2 can’t come quick enough. I have Immich up and running on my unraid server but the facial recognition, machine learning and search ain’t working. Throwing back errors in the log files. I’ll follow your setup and see if I missed something but I don’t think I have.

[@notcorrect]

Six Walking Dead actors. Big fan!

[@Goldmaster]

One thing that has always made me skeptical is how does it manage the photos themselves, ie does it move and sort photos in a file folder hierarchy. I would love to be able to simply add photos uploaded into a folder, that are in titled sub folders and move them into a sorted folder category.

[@Airbag888]

Curious about how good immich is at videos and syncing... I guess it also can't interface with Google Nest hubs to display pictures

[@octaviobravim7280]

Part 2 plsssssssss...

[@gilflix]

Feels like waiting for christmas...

[@julian.morgan]

Does immich do anything useful re de-duplication? I've got multiple duplicate library folders dating back 20 odd years from various family members. So there's not just actual duplicates within each library but overlapping libraries - so there's probably up to 7 or 8 identical photos once all the libraries are combined. I'd really like to just be able to chuck everything at an application that will flag up the duplicates and let me choose what to keep. Thanks

[@adamfritzsche]

I'm guessing that using something like this, I would need to refrain from adding/removing and maybe editing the photos by other means (like using file explorer)? This is kind of what keeps me from using my Nexcloud instance. Ideally it would be nice to only have the one source of the files, but use/edit them by any other means and the database stay updated. Like for example, I upload some photos in Immich and then later on want to use that same photo in Lightroom. Is this going to be a problem?

[@OhThatAD]

BTW, I am The Explorographer. And I just posted a comment here and yes, it was blacklisted along with someone elses comment. Right now when I am looking at this, 2 comments are not being shown even though YT says there are 2 comments on this video. They have been flagged for approval by YT/Google. Absolutely a garbage way to run a site.

[@SpaceinvaderOne]

Thank you for reaching out. Currently, I am only able to see this particular comment. The video has been live for approximately 10 minutes now, and it indicates that there are 3 comments in total. However, as the channel owner, I'm also unable to view the other comments, and they don't appear to be in the 'Held for review' section from my end ??

[@OhThatAD]

Thanks for the video btw. Always appreciate you and your videos. They have made my unRAID servers much better because of them.

[@brandonreidy6989]

Anyone know if you can sort albums by file name in Immich?

[@murraydawson8407]

I'd really like to know that too!

[@paqmac]

Please Part 2 😊

[@tetricz]

Differentiating Dogs and Cats is actually a really difficult challenge for AI. With the speed it's progressing though, things are likely going to change soon

[@coffeebeans1912]

I just wish there was an alternative to KZbin. I could delete my Google account right now if there was. But KZbin is just so engrained in our culture at this point that unless someone transfers all of that content (and I do mean all) to another platform and gets all channels to move over then KZbin is just stuck in our lives forever because of it's incredible utility.

[@mwright154]

Can I setup multiple user accounts? If I delete an image on my phone can it delete from server? How does this compare with photo prism or photo structure in Unraid?

[@jefwesb]

Great video!