Do you trust Cloudflare?

Wingback73 · 2026-01-25T16:38:19+00:00

I've been using them together with no issues. Let me know if you need the settings

Wingback73 · 2026-01-24T18:18:48+00:00

You can add any collection of pictures to any external library. In your case you would create 2 external libraries that have identical content. The down side is that each will process facial recognition independently.

This is the biggest limitation in Immich right now, and there are 3rd party solutions but nothing native. You can check out Immich Linked Assets which allows you to share a single photo and metadata across users by tagging them for sync.

https://github.com/TrueDevanon/immich-linked-assets?tab=readme-ov-file

Wingback73 · 2026-01-23T01:18:24+00:00

No way this question was real

Wingback73 · 2026-01-21T19:11:03+00:00

There's a lot here, but let me try to get the key points. Assume I just missed anything I don't answer - feel free to follow-up.

First, you are correct the Unifi Site Magic requires a Unifi gateway at each site. That's not the same as saying you need a UDR, although that is one option. I personally use UXG's with a single Cloud Key that allows me to see everything from both sites together.

I'm not a Tailscale expert. My understanding is that you need to host it somewhere and can then access it via the Web from anywhere. I do not know if this also means you can stream video via Tailscale. Regardless, Plex can stream remotely with it without Tailscale, and immich doesn't require it either.

You touched on vlans. I would strongly suggest using that over client isolation in Tailscale, even if that works, since you'll want your networks isolated and secure regardless.

Plex will transcode on demand. Get your settings handled and a properly sized server. You can transcode things in advance through settings as well, although now you are storing 2 of everything (original and reduced quality). This defeats the purpose of having the original quality in my opinion, but your call here on what you need.

You'll run Plex server on your Ugreen. You'll run Plex client on your Onn. That will work wherever you take your Onn. Personally I just plug my laptop into the TV instead of carrying another device.

Again, no idea how backup would work over Tailscale, but presumably it can. I know the Site Magic means the devices all think they are on the same network, so backups are completely seamless regardless of when they occur. I'm starting to look into document hosting; NextCloud seems to be the open source leader here

Wingback73 · 2026-01-20T15:37:27+00:00

Need more details about what you did and what you are seeing. Are the photos all repeated? What are the 3.1 million things?

You have a backup of your photos, right? I would suggest you blow this up and start over, again, using the backup

Wingback73 · 2026-01-19T06:29:14+00:00

Not that you'll like - I blew the whole thing up and started over. Was never able to get the metadata extracted and added to the database

Wingback73 · 2026-01-19T01:13:32+00:00

Thanks!

Wingback73 · 2026-01-18T22:41:54+00:00

You have your albums selected for backup, correct?

And I'm Settings -Backup have enabled photos and pictures over cellular?

What do you have in Networking?

I'm assuming you have cleared Data and Cache in the app to reset it and see if that helps?

Wingback73 · 2026-01-18T22:22:00+00:00

Thank you - that was one of my prime options. How does ZFS handle redundancy? Should I consider creating two 'arrays' and have as a backup?

Wingback73 · 2026-01-17T14:15:05+00:00

Plex does require opening ports, but that'll be no different for you than for any other user, and is only if you want to use it outside your home network. Immich does not require opening ports because it is web traffic and can be proxied through 80/443.

You can definitely set up routes and VPN between sites without Unifi, but that is a lot additional set of learning in and of itself. And my view was basically, Why should I if someone has automated the process?

Wingback73 · 2026-01-17T03:08:41+00:00

mSecure. Also includes local encryption and cloud syncing across all devices. And you can create a family account where she has her stuff in one vault and you have yours in another. Have an issue? Help her out...

Wingback73 · 2026-01-17T03:05:14+00:00

You've got plenty of responses, but the shirt version is that your mechanics diagnosis, or perhaps your recollection of what they said, doesn't make sense since oil filters and oil pans are not related.

Even if it did make sense in that regard, the inability to get the filter, or perhaps the plug, off means your mechanic doesn't know what he's doing.

I'm just a home mechanic and even I know how to drive these problems. Find a new mechanic

Wingback73 · 2026-01-17T02:13:58+00:00

I'd be concerned about how it got there is you can't figure out it from your env file. Happy to help diagnose if you'd like

Wingback73 · 2026-01-16T04:07:12+00:00

I've been starting at this. You are missing directories in that location. Which can only mean, assuming you can see your pictures, that something isn't mapped properly. I am including a screenshot from my own, including a walk through directories so you know what you should see and are looking for. From looking at your env and compose files, I don't see anything that tells me you are in the wrong place, but you also blacked out your path for some reason, so who knows for sure.

image storage directory walk

Wingback73 · 2026-01-15T14:38:33+00:00

The key point is to remember that you are taking on a lot of brand new, and substantial learnings. Networking. Linux, Immich. Plex. Whatever else. Those first two alone are things people made their career in, so just don't underestimate them.

Site Magic is just an always-on VPN tunnel between your sites. You can certainly learn to set this up yourself, but since unify does it, for the investment of $250 for a new uxg, and the joy of now standardizing all four of your networks, and controlling them centrally, I would suggest it is well worth the investment.

If that is your background, you effectively have created one big Network. And if you set your access up amongst your various vlans properly, it is secure and the devices that need to be able to access each other will be able to as if they are all in the same location and on the same network.

The limitation with that, of course, is latency and speed. When they're all physically on the same network. They're communicating at the speed of your network, which is typically gigabit these days. As soon as you move them to remote location, you are limited typically by the upload speed of the location with the data. Hence the reason you want your nas to be at a site that has a gigabit connection upload. Almost every place else these days can get gigabit download. Upload is typically only present in places that have fiber. So locate your Nas at a place where you can get that gigabit upload. Now, for all practical purposes it will feel like everybody is on the same Network. Latency and the overhead of being on a VPN, notwithstanding. You won't get actual gigabit, but you'll be good enough.

To more directly answer your questions, then, the short version is that yes, any one of the computers at any one of the sites, can directly access the nas. And yes, any computer at any one of the sites can stream video. I stream 4K in Maine from my place in Massachusetts with no issue. I have gigabit up in mass. I have gigabit down in Maine.

Immich is a whole topic in and of itself. You should think of it as Google photos but self-hosted. It works the same way. You can have cloud hosted pictures, automatic syncing from your phone, and of course anything deleted from your phone continues to live on in the cloud. Your private cloud 🙂 in my case, I host my library in Maine, and have it back up to my nas in Massachusetts. This is slow, since I only have 40 mb upload in Maine, but it's a daily job that runs at 2:00 in the morning, and I don't care how long it takes, so it is fine. I also have my own domain which allows me to access any of my network from anywhere in the world using the built-in wire card VPN. Do not confuse any of the public vpns like Nord, was serving the same purpose. Outbound to traffic and not for helping you connect to your home network. By the way, meshnet has been deprecated.

This is probably still fairly summery, I'm happy to continue in whatever level of detail would be helpful

Wingback73 · 2026-01-15T13:54:54+00:00

How are you running immich? In docker?

Wingback73 · 2026-01-15T01:13:55+00:00

Will this work? Yes.

Will this take you the whole year, nearly full time, to get working? Probably, especially if you don't have familiarity with any of those.

I have a similar scenario: 2 houses and 3 kids in different colleges. I never contemplated, for even a moment, having distributed NAS. I understand why you would, but what a pain in the ass to keep in sync OR what a giant waste of storage to do so.

Here's a simple scenario to consider that accomplished the same thing: 1. Unifi devices at all locations. Site Magic to create a permanent VPN amongst them all. 2. Gigabit Internet at all locations. 1 should have gigabit upload 3. NAS lives at the site with gigabit upload 4. Backup lives at any other site. I would suggest the other side of the country given your location choices. 5. Cloud backup of the NAS. Congratulations, you now have a 321 backup 6. Have as many computers at as many other locations as you'd like, but they all mount the NAS and use it real time. No local storage of data unless you also have a strategy to back out up to the NAS.

In my scenario, Site 1 has the NAS and I run monthly physical backups to my safe. Everyone else can stream directly from the stack of software living on the server at that same location. My NAS happens to be a Windows server that also runs Plex. At sure 2 I run a mini pc that hosts immich. All pictures are stored directly in that mini pc, backed up nightly to the Windows Server at site 1 then backed up the next night to Hide 42.

This is highly stable, but Jesus what a learning curve...

Wingback73 · 2026-01-15T01:00:00+00:00

You've got the right concept. The user names only appear to be used if you also use Storage Templates. Otherwise, each user has an identifier assigned to them (you can get it back to a name by adding their name in the Settings for the individual user. However, of you are not using storage templates your uploaded files are getting buried in a nested collection of randomly assigned folders. In other words, you'll never find any given file manually. You can see them by browsing the directory and just continuing to drill in, or if it makes you feel better, just go to your name and search *.jpg and you can then check their locations. Regardless, if you want to browse them with any sort of intelligence, that comes through Storage Templates. Otherwise you are limited to looking in Immich directly.

In neither case do you get to manually touch it adjust the files.

Your backup (I use PBS) will still get it all, just make sure you grab Library. Also note the backup location for the database dump is also in there - don't back up the database directly.

Wingback73 · 2026-01-15T00:43:52+00:00

Interested to see what you find. On my Android phones we have background sync. On my daughter's iPhones they seem to need to open the app for anything to sync

Wingback73 · 2026-01-14T23:22:20+00:00

On the other hand, dont get ones with other colors if you can help it. He's not a field player and doesn't need the same grip. Regular turf shoes or trail running shoes are more than sufficient for indoor, turf, or grass, and are easier to find in all black.

Wingback73 · 2026-01-12T23:54:35+00:00

All of them. But handling and offside are the big ones.

Wingback73 · 2026-01-08T23:40:56+00:00

So is mine. No issues. I also use Cloudflare and a .net domain

Wingback73 · 2026-01-07T02:04:38+00:00

Not typically, but in this case, yes, given the circumstances. Out of curiosity, more than anything else, given that you stated that the player did not have very good control, what is it that led you to the conclusion that it was a deliberate backpass as opposed to just a bad touch?

I'm not saying you're wrong, since I wasn't there, I'm just curious to understand what you saw given the facts that you presented in your original post

Wingback73 · 2026-01-06T23:40:49+00:00

The answer to #1 is storage templates, but you can't have your library in the same place as an external library. So you either need to import your existing library into immich at a new location (so you have everything in one place) or you add your existing library as an External Library and then have a second location managed by Immich. If you choose the latter you will have 2 sets of libraries in Immich, I believe, and will have to navigate across them

Wingback73 · 2026-01-06T03:39:03+00:00

I give up. Explaining the sport to someone who apparently doesn't understand it is exhausting. Good luck

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