immich VS syncthing-android

I think Immich checks a lot of these

https://immich.app/

Install Immich using the casaos app store or by following the instructions on the Immich GitHub repository.

thanks. It started as a proof of concept for a custom reactivity engine (based on signals and tagged template literals). But while at it I realised I needed something quick and easy for my needs.

I already have a prototype for a self-hosted photogallery that integrates this editor (something like https://immich.app to give you an idea). But it's still to early to share

Immich - Self-hosted photo backup solution

However, managing apps with Flux in my opinion is not the easiest and most comfortable solution. Especially, if we're changing versions quite often and we would like to have at least a few dependencies between apps and infra. For example, my Immich instance needs csi-driver-smb, which on the other hand requires external-secret-operator and external-secret-secret (the actual link between in-cluster secret and ESO ClusterSecretStore). So, every new relese, needs to be built and checks that all kustomizations are in place. Then actually deploy a new version. Very long process, also ArgoCD UI is just better, easier to use, and definitely more user-friendly - at least in my opinion.

interesting why nobody mentioned https://immich.app/ yet?

I highly suggest Immich [1], it's an open-source and self-host alternative for Google Photos. It's still under very active development, but I think it's the best out there.

[1] https://immich.app/

I really like https://immich.app/

Has auto backup on the mobile apps, great webUI, multi user, face recognition and search all done locally.

Then for local and cloud backup you can use your preferred software like Restic or whatever you like.

Thank you for this. Just adding this here:

There seems to be an issue with recent Android apis that make file access painfully slow that it wasn't able to sync my data in 1 full day. Enabling the "Case Sensitive FS" option on the folder helped a lot.

https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android/issues/1088#...

I've been using Obtainium to install Android apps from Github releases and automatically update them. It's worked great.

Syncthing's .apk release files can be found here: https://github.com/catfriend1/syncthing-android

I was browsing this thread to try to find a workaround. There seems to be a fork that you either have to install through fdroid or as an apk. https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android/issues/1149#...

Yes, very sad.

Two alternatives exist:

1. Syncthing-Fork (https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android) - Works just like the official app. Install from F-Droid or GitHub. Single developer but active.

2. Syncthing in Termux - Run the actual Syncthing program in Termux. Takes more setup but uses the standard version.

The fork is easier to use, while Termux needs more setup but gives you the standard Syncthing experience.

Same! I use [syncthing-fork](https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android) to automate the process.

Been using catfriend1's Syncthing fork https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android for years. Works well.

Available on F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.catfriend1.syncth...

The author of Syncthing-fork has actually said they've had similar problems with Google and believe it's only a matter of time before their app is locked in a similar way - so much so that they are planning to surrender their Play developer account:

https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android#about-play-s...

I use https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android which has an option to run only every X minutes of each hour, as a decent tradeoff.

This version also ships and Android Quick Settings tile that will start Syncthing for those X minutes and stop it outside of that schedule, so I'll hit the button as I'm putting on shoes to go out after making a shopping list on my phone or what have you