Best way to use Immich with my photos on Nextcloud?
Best way to use Immich with my photos on Nextcloud?
I would like to try Immich and at the same time I am already using Nextcloud to sync all my photos from my phone. Is there a way to keep my photos on Nextcloud?
What are you trying to achieve, OP? As far as I understand you want to use Nextcloud to sync your photos and then want to use Immich to view them?
Because if that’s the case, it doesn’t make the most sense currently. Immich currently isn’t a full featured photo library manager, but rather a tool to back up photos from your phone and smartly display those. It’s currently not geared toward at displaying existing photo libraries.
A number of other applications (PhotoPrism, Photoview, LibrePhotos, Piwigo) are better suited to do that, although it is planned for Immich if I understood correctly.
Not OP but that's really useful to know!
They have started implementing read-only folders for Immich with the latest release. And it does actually work pretty well.
However it currently is a very manual process via the command line (and not very well documented, especially for docker) and it has limited features as it does not automatically sync new images and does not remove deleted images from its database yet.
I’m using Nextcloud to sync my photos and use the read-only feature of Immich which works really well. I have a cronjob to automatically sync the latest photos into Immich over night which also works quite nicely.
Both are using a different database and structure. If you already use nextcloud, then use the memories insteead
Nextcloud uses a normal file structure per user, so you could also point any other gallery app (PhotoPrism, Photoview, LibrePhotos, Piwigo) towards the data folder Nextcloud uses. And yeah, Memories is an option as well.
What are the advantages compared to Nextcloud Photos?
Just install immich side by side. Install the app, then you are good to go.
Immich will just back up your photos to immichs storage and DB, and nexrcloid sync will do the same for nextcloud.
I do this, I just used uploaded all the pictures and videos from my locally synced nextcloud folder to immich
After that I just kept auto upload on for nextcloud and immich apps on my phone