Slowly but surely trying to de google my life, but Google Photos is a hard one. I have a kid and seven pets, and I’ve come to rely on Google Photo’s search abilities to actually find anything I want to see in the hot mess of disorganized photos.
I tried a trial of Ente and filled it up to the free limit with pics. It was able to recognize my toddler in THREE photos, no one else. I don’t know how many or which photos are backed up because it doesn’t seem to show them separate from my un-backed up ones. It doesn’t learn to recognize pets as far as I can tell.
I’m too tired to learn to self host just to use Immich, even though I’ve heard good things, ha.
Is raspberry pi pretty easy to set up? Or if you were starting over would you go with something else? I have a windows laptop and an android phone, so that’s the extent of what I’m familiar with so far. But Immich does look so promising!
I would say it is, but to be fair, i work as a programmer and with Linux on a daily basis.
But there are plenty of tutorials which teach you to flash some OS to your Pi or even complete guides to build immich on top of a pi:( https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-immich/ )
The raspberry pi is the famoust single board Computer and therefore there are tons of projects and things you can do with it.
Link looks awesome, thanks! Do you also keep a separate cloud backup of your photos in case your server is damaged (like in a disaster or something)?