Oh man. Of all the self-hosted projects to not grasp, you picked the darling.

The creator of Immich had the same use case that got me in to self hosting:

1. A new family with child.
2. A whole lot of photos and video to share between the spouse and with extended family.
3. Ballooning Google (One) photos costs, to which I asked: am I going to pay this forever? Storage also caps out at 2 tb, which we are using more than.
4. A growing discontent with the idea of every family moment being harvested by a tech company I do not like.

At the core - Immich allows me a continuity of service and saves money while keeping spousal approval at the required levels.

I’m getting this set up at my parents’. Just gotta remind them not to touch the box!

If it crosses your mind once it’s all hooked up :⁠-⁠)

Thanks for the reply! I have a couple USB 3.0 2-drive docks that just sit out in the open - consolidating in to a single, enclosed unit with a fan would be nice (since mine or open, you really hear the HD spin up/click when accessing it).

What do you use to adjust your drives’ spin down? hdparm? hd-idle? I have one drive that is constantly spinning/accessed so the thermal concerns with the unit do weigh on me.

Reviews on that page are kind of dodgy, but they are for all 3 products listed which makes it difficult to tell which review is for what.

Have you had any of the listed issues? Heat, unrecognized success, etc?

Yeah I’m really curious where the difficulty lies. Nextcloud was one of the earliest, if not the first, services that I deployed on a server when learning about Linux/Docker from scratch. The evolution of my setup has mostly been through my better understanding of container management practices than through anything Nextcloud specific.

My only Nextcloud specific issue has to do with the implementation of a reverse proxy (NPM) breaking the ability for my Nextcloud and OnlyOffice containers ability to connect - and I’ve not been so fixed about it that I haven’t really sat down trying to figure a fix.

I use it. It meets all my needs and doesn’t have and bugs/issues that I’ve encountered. What more are you hoping from it?

Perhaps this fits the bill? Requires a Home Assistant instance.

https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2024/05/09/music-assistant-2/

If this is mostly for Obsidian, use the community plugin and a self hosted CouchDB.

https://github.com/vrtmrz/obsidian-livesync

I’ve found it quite good.

Appreciate the circle back!

Dockge + dockcheck.sh has made my life so much easier.

I rolled out Dockge the other week, and it’s solid. It can handle environment variables, but lacks other portainer features like controlling networks, volumes, building images, etc.

One big plus is that Dockge works really well with the dockcheck.sh script for updates, where as Portainer breaks that script.

https://lubelogger.com/

Haven’t used it, just know it exists.

Thanks for the reply. I’ve tried both Firefox and Obsidian containers from Linuxserver.io before, but when connecting I found there was no output. It made me wonder what was missing (like X11 or Wayland installed on the host) for an output to be generated.

I’m curious what the host machine for the Docker container is? Is it a headless server or something with a desktop/window manager?

Been looking to set up the Obsidian Docker container but I presently only run headless, so it sounds like a headache.

I wanted to spin up OCIS but for some reason ran in to difficulties with the Docker container. I forget what the issues were, but I already had a solid Nextcloud instance running so I didn’t dig very hard. Would like to revisit it some day.

However, since then Owncloud has been bought out, causing some worry.

Hugely appreciate this, thank you! I have a portable monitor this would be brilliant on

Would love to hear more about your setup. This is something I wanted to explore at some point.

I would like to try it, but it only has a Windows Store client.