So the final thing tethering me to macOS is Apple Photos, which is really a fantastic program.
PhotoPrism looks like it’s improving quickly, but I was curious to know how it’s going today with regards to:
- Search filters
- Date
- Place
- Object/person recognition
- Text recognition
- Live Photo support
- Ease of importing
- Album support, including smart albums
- Built-in touch ups
- General stability
I would suggest you have a look of immich.
It also has mobile apps to do the backup and as a frond end on the phone. And what I really like is you can mount in your existing external libraries without copying all the pictures in and they will just be integrated automatically.
Thanks for the suggestion I’ll follow it up!
Usual precautions apply, the app does not bury the lede:
Yes, I tried Immich but it’s basically a second job, no thanks. Photoprism is very good, but would need something like Syncthing to auto upload. So I ended up going with Libre Photo. It’s nowhere near as powerful as Immich in terms of features, but for my over 500K photos and almost 50K videos, works like a charm in ProxMox with the “UhuruPhotos” Android app.
Interesting. For me it was a set and forget. I check the change notes before updating every month or so, make a very small change to the yaml compose, and I am back in action in under 10 minutes.
Different experiences I guess.
+1 for Immich, I tried photoprism and had a lot of trouble importing and organizing an existing library. Immich works much more intuitively and had all the features I needed.
This is a pretty accurate summary from my experience. The only thing I’d add is that (from what I’ve read at least) some form of ‘smart’ album functionality is high on the priority list and shouldn’t be too much further down the line. It may be a more advanced customizable logic type of solution (again from what I’ve read) but the functionality of putting person(s) ‘x’ into album(s) ‘y’ (or similar) should be achievable.