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Immich v3.0.0 is out, with Workflows preview (github.com)
submitted 1 week ago by avidamoeba@lemmy.ca to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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[–] uuj8za@piefed.social 49 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Ooh, the workflows idea is interesting.

What I really want is for my photos to expire.

Most of the photos I take are junk photos: a picture of a receipt, a picture of a sprinkler model number, a picture of a random bug I saw while I was cleaning the pool. I just need these photos once and then I never need them again. I wish they would go away on their own.

Of course, there are also times when I do want to keep pictures, birthdays, vacations, etc.

I wish Immich (or someone) would create a camera with a switch that allows you to pre sort images into albums: permanent vs temporary

Of course, the Big Tech guys would never do this because they want you to store all of that junk on their clouds.

But, Immich could actually help trim junk.

[–] BartyDeCanter@piefed.social 27 points 1 week ago (2 children)

In iOS there is an app called ShutterDeclutter that every day shows you the all photos you took on that day of the year in your collection and has a swipe left/right to delete or keep each one. It makes the job of reviewing photos manageable for people with multi decade long albums. I really want Immich to add that feature.

[–] helix@feddit.org 2 points 4 days ago

For Android there's PhotoSwooper which works somewhat similar @uuj8za@piefed.social

[–] xistera@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago

I use an app called Slidebox on iOS. Every Saturday I review the pictures I've taken with it and either swipe up to delete or send them to an album at the bottom, I only sync the sorted album with immich.

[–] AllYourSmurf@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

This is an excellent idea.

[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You don't need to delete them entirely. You can convert a 5MB/22 megapixel JPEG to a 500KB/2 megapixel AVIF that looks 95% as good when viewed on a phone screen.

Of course, I have no idea if immich can do this. It would be nice though.

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[–] Mereo@lemmy.ca 41 points 1 week ago (5 children)

As this is version 3.0.0, I'll wait a bit before upgrading.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 41 points 1 week ago

Wait for 3.0.3 and then the emergency 3.0.4. 😅

[–] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, even when jumping minor versions they tend to spend a few days/weeks pushing patches, I'll wait a bit before updating.

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[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 5 points 1 week ago

This is my thought also. v2.7.5 has been stable since April. I'm gonna stick with that for the moment.

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[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Upgrade guide from Immich v2 - https://immich.app/blog/v3-migration.

[–] uuj8za@piefed.social 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I was just thinking about this the other day: https://github.com/immich-app/immich/tree/main/docker

Make sure to use the docker-compose.yml of the current release: https://github.com/immich-app/immich/releases/latest/download/docker-compose.yml

The compose file on main may not be compatible with the latest release.

I definitely have not been checking for updates on the compose files on any of my self hosted apps... I probably should...

[–] DarkSirrush@piefed.ca 20 points 1 week ago

In all honesty, immich's very opinionated way of doing a compose file gives me so many headaches compared to pretty much every other docker app I use.

[–] Railcar8095@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

My upgrade path was breaking by deployment a few weeks ago, seeing the v3 was around the corner and just starting again :)

Sad to see the I can't make a workflow to add photos to an album based on face recognition. Wanted that you have a family album

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

That's probably coming too. This is the first preview of the feature.

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[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

As an FYI to people who are upgrading and use a preexisting postgres database If you still use pgvecto.rs (if the command \dx on the immich database responds with vectors not vector) you will need to install both pgvector and vectorchord in order to continue using immich. This will require restarting your postgres instance at least once if not twice.

It threw me for a loop at first because of the similar naming. Just thought I would share.

[–] Osiris@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Make sure you take a backup. Changing the docker container nuked my db. Had to restore from a backup

[–] ragingHungryPanda@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com 1 points 6 days ago

are you using named volumes or mounting a directory for the data directory in postgres? If you changed the docker compose and lost data, you may have been using an ephemeral volume.

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[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

Why don’t they support Background Resource Upload PhotoKit API on iOS?

Nm: I know why now. Apple are such bitches.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

What is it, restricted access? Am an Android user since 2008 and never had an iOS device so I'm clueless.

[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (7 children)

They have a new api that lets photos be backed up in the background similar to how the photos app does with iCloud. But… Immich cannot use it because Apple say you have to hard code the URL. That doesn’t work for self hosting.

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[–] tmcgh@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is that why my partners phone won't upload her photos... So annoying

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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I just updated last night to 2.7.5 ha

[–] fdnomad@programming.dev 28 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

9/10 ~~gamblers~~ selfhosters ~~quit~~ upgrade right before ~~hitting the jackpot~~ a major version release

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I literally just updated mine two days ago 😂

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[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Does anyone know if chunked upload has been implemented? Vital for who's behind cloudflare

[–] AzuraTheSpellkissed@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago

Haven't tested it, but according to the issue tracker: no.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

All the HEIC files from my camera are still busted.

To be fair, its a tricky issue. Its camera makers' fault for using a format no one else wants to touch, and rendering them as HDR files instead of SDR with gain maps, as is standard practice for smartphones.

...But still, its annoying. They render fine on my iPhone, on Windows, or KDE Linux, out of the box. But they're completely garbled in Immich :(

[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (15 children)

I've really wanted to ditch JPEG. It's a 34 year old format.

The problem is that AVIF, JPEG-XL and HEIC/HEIF don't work in many places. At a minimum I would want them to display in my gallery app (currently Nextcloud memories), display in a browser, and have native support at an OS level (i.e thumbnail previews). Neither format comes close to this.

I may even move away from Nextcloud over it. I didn't want to deploy docker just for immich (I love LAMP, btw). However Nextcloud is SO MUCH maintenance compared to the 50 other services running on my server.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

At a minimum I would want them to display in my gallery app (currently Nextcloud memories), display in a browser,

there's a new push to support JPEG-XL in Firefox. it got a labs toggle recently so you can enable it for yourself. I think chrome has done something too.

and have native support at an OS level (i.e thumbnail previews). Neither format comes close to this.

what OS do you use? KDE flavoured linux handles it fine. probably not KDE specific though.

[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I saw the JXL article recently. It's good progress. Didn't a major browser remove JXL support after it was added?

I'm on Ubuntu gnome. I think the biggest outlier was LibreOffice, which didn't support any modern formats.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago

Didn't a major browser remove JXL support after it was added?

yes, chrome, a few years ago. google wanted to push its own inferior format

I think the biggest outlier was LibreOffice, which didn't support any modern formats.

that's possible it does not use the system libraries for that. but the system file manager and system gallery app should support it, and anything that uses the same libs

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[–] Fmstrat@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I just want it to not delete things of NFS goes down.

Edit: Also, manual steps for a containerized update are dumb. All these manual steps should be handled in migrations. I have started a discussion on this: https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/29513

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I just want it to not delete things of NFS goes down.

that's a pretty bad flaw. mounts could disappear for many reasons, not only NFS but any kind of mount.

[–] Fmstrat@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yea, Iove Immich, but this almost got me. It moves them to trash unless the volume comes back in 30 days. If 30 days go by, you lose all metadata, scanned people, etc. I was out of town when it happened.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago

oh so it's not a bug but a design decision. I don't know whether that's better or worse. maybe it could be patched..

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago

The upgrade was pretty trivial from 2.7.5. Minimal changes in the docker compose file if your was up-to-date on 2.7.5. Mostly version changes. No changes needed to .env other than going to v3.

[–] notsonymous@feddit.org 8 points 1 week ago

Nice, in the process of backing up before upgrading my containers! :)

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What are workflows?

[–] ID10T@programming.dev 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The first preview of Workflows is here! Workflows let you automate actions in your library by chaining triggers, filters, and actions together with a drag-and-drop builder. This is the foundation for many exciting automations to come, and we'd love your feedback as we continue building on it.

It’s a user-friendly way to say “when X happens, do Y”.

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[–] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

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LAMP Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP stack for webhosting
NAS Network-Attached Storage
NFS Network File System, a Unix-based file-sharing protocol known for performance and efficiency

3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 3 acronyms.

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[–] godsammitdam@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I was just setting up my homelab 👀 looks like I was just in time to give it a bit before rebuilding lol

[–] Alfredolin@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Where is the f-droid client update that belongs to it?

[–] Alfredolin@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 week ago

WARNING: current f-droid version is not compatible with latest server version!!

No extra repo and f-droid basic repo does not have it. I took it through obtainium and so had to delete/download the app and redo my settings...

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