I have a folder on my unraid that has about 25gb of photos and home movies.

Currently I’m the only person that knows how to access any of it, but I would like to share it with my SO and my kids. Also maybe family remotely. I think it would be cool if my wife could back up her stuff to it as well in addition to icloud, so we could all share photos.

Currently, I have my photos from my phone backing up from the phone to google photos (which I’m out of room on), amazon photos and dropbox. Once a month or so I copy all of the photos from my dropbox to my folder.

I’ve researched both Nextcloud and Immich until I’m blue in the face and have installed both. Both seem good and have ups and downs.

Ideally, I would stop backing up to everywhere else but what I pick. So backing up from my photne automagically is important. Probably also from my ipad. I can setup access externally so that’s not a big deal for either.

Being able to tag and categorize photos would be nice, or even just be able to group them on the same day would be great. They all have some exif info but not all have correct info. A lot of photos were gotten from CVS from film and etc. I think having some ai face detection would be great too. So I can find all the pics of my kids without manually tagging them all.

Has anyone tackled this more and have some insights to share?

I like the idea of next cloud because I think I could also replace dropbox with it, which would make some stuff easier as well. I have 25+TB free on my server, so I could conceivably have both but is it worth it? But immich seems really nice even though its under active development.

  • Watever444@alien.topBEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I used nextcloud for documents but now use mostly paperless. Nextcloud for documents I need to write but that’s rare now. Immich for pictures. Find all what I am looking for. Difficulty finding cats but no problem finding people face at all, better than google I believe cause recognize background people too.

  • applesoff@alien.topBEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Immich easy. The rapid updates have been great. Almost never hit issues and my family loves it for photo sharing.

  • apperrault@alien.topBEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I am in the exact same spot. I like Immich, and that is what I am using for my phone, but I think that NextCloud memories might be more user friendly for my SO. I haven’t really played much with it, but I may end up doing both, not sure yet

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    • mrpink57@alien.topBEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Between them Immich is a lot easier to use, the app is much nicer I have found.

      Also if you are not using nextcloud for other features, installing just for photos is a huge drag on resources.

      Also immich just added gpu support.

    • Low-Chapter5294@alien.topBEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Nextcloud memories has a lot of great features and shares as well as or better than Immich…

      I use Immich for the phone backup and then host long term Photo Albums with Memories in Nextcloud. The combo works great.

  • audiophile_vin@alien.topBEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I tried photo prism, nextcloud and immich. While all three were good and met most of my needs, I decided to only keep immich installed. It runs great on my unraid low power nas, and the image search and timeline works great

  • atredd@alien.topBEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I had nextcloud and it worked, let’s say, good. I switched to Immich some months ago and it works awesome.