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Immich is what I'm using right now. I'm running it in a Docker container on my Synology. It was very advantageous to spin up another docker container on my laptop to do the face recognition work because the Synology was going to take forever on it.

We no longer are auto uploading to Google or Apple.

So far, I really like it. I haven't quite gone 100%, as we're still uploading with Synology's photo app, but Immich provides a much more refined, featured interface.

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If you want a solid "just upload the photos" experience, PhotoSync on iOS is really great.

I think you can use Immich to just look at a folder and not use the backup from phone bits.

ACK. The best part is the one-time-pay option to unlock background sync with many different triggers which can be combined - mine 03:00 am with charger connected in my WLAN. Love the software.

I tried PhotoSync, but it feels like a really misleading name. When I delete photos from my phone, they don't delete on the sync destination, so it's not actually a "sync".

So my photo storage on my home server is getting filled with a bunch of useless images that I only have on my phone temporarily and that I end up deleting shortly after.

> We no longer are auto uploading to Google or Apple.

May I ask why? Just curious as the main reason I use Immich is for the auto upload

Edit: Ugh. Can’t read. I somehow read don’t auto upload to Immich.

because you don't want your data being held by Google or Apple?

Self hosting and owning your own data

May I ask: why not use Synology's own photo stack? The web UI is pretty good, the iPhone app is great, it runs locally without depending on Synology servers, and does have face recognition and all other features.

Have you tried Immich? It is extremely polished and has every feature you mentioned, along with being open source with tons of community energy and no lock in.

I didn’t want to be attached to the Synology system or hardware anymore. Synology Photos is great (and we’re still using it for the upload atm), but Immich lets me control the whole thing, top to bottom.

I’m running a DS1813+. It’s stopped getting new feature updates. This approach lets me keep the storage running while migrating away the server components.

To avoid the same debacle that already happened once with Video Station?

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