[Feature]: Be notified when pictures are added in album

[axgdcode]

Feature detail

In webapp and mobile app :

• As the owner of an album, I would like to be notify when someone add pictures.
• As a viewer of an album, I would like to be notify when someone add pictures

I think that a rss feed could be a simple solution.
A webhook could be a better solution to be notified or to integrate with n8n or IFTTT.

Platform

Server

[feerlessleadr]

This is really the last thing that is missing for me to replace Google photos features. Looking forward to it!

[pman07]

If anyone is interested, I setup a docker container that runs a python script every 15 minutes checking user defined albumIDs for new items. If there are new items it sends a push notification via ntfy (can be self hosted). Just thought I'd share. Source code and setup details below.

https://github.com/pman07/Immich_Notify

[mjsamberg]

This is awesome! I'd love to see a native-type implementation that's "grandma proof", but this is a great first step.

[feerlessleadr]

@pman07 Thanks for this. I'm having an issue getting this to run and opened up an issue on your repo, but tagging you here in case you didn't see:

pman07/Immich_Notify#2

[Godd67]

This would be awesome! Desperately need this feature. Use case - have an album shared with family members. If one of us decided to share a photo, others should be notified automatically.

[locqust]

How does this work with multiple users? I'm assuming you can only use one API key from a single user and it watches any shared albums you define no matter which user owns the albums?

[pman07]

Yes that's how it works. It doesn't specify who uploaded the pictures, just how many have been added in the last 15 minutes.

If you have some albums that you don't have access to, you could spin up another notify container with a different users API key I suppose.

[locqust]

Yes that's how it works. It doesn't specify who uploaded the pictures, just how many have been added in the last 15 minutes.

If you have some albums that you don't have access to, you could spin up another notify container with a different users API key I suppose.

Perfect, it's just shared albums between me and the wife so that's just what I need.

[fcastilloec]

@pman07 you mentioned that there's no path towards a built-in notification feature, but I couldn't find any mention of this anywhere. Do you know if this has changed? Having an additional app for notifications won't work, as some of you already mentioned, because there are always non-tech people in the family who even struggle with intuitive apps like this one.

[pman07]

I'm not sure, I honestly haven't checked up recently. Below is a screenshot from last June on discord, but not sure if anything has changed. I think I've seen some chatter about possible email notifications.

[benjamonnguyen]

The multi-user feature sets Immich apart from alternatives like PhotoPrism, and personally the joy of sharing photos with friends and family is a big part of why I self-host Immich!

[lieberpi]

Would it be possible to have a "Notifications" option in the settings where one could select which events would send a notification?

For example:

An album has been shared with you
A new picture/video has been added to an album that has been shared with you
A new comment has been made to a picture in an album that has been shared with you
Someone liked an image in an album that has been shared with you

This would be great!

[BourbonDoc]

Just want to add that I'm extremely interested in this feature. The program itself is phenomenal, and I'm basically this feature away from self-hosting our entire family's photos. The python script, while seemingly an awesome workaround, won't work for the grandparents!

[Thinkscape]

Integration with ntfy would be amazing, since they are natively self-hosted (and offer cloud version if needed).

https://docs.ntfy.sh/develop/?h=ios#ios-app

[feerlessleadr]

You can already do this with this container

https://github.com/pman07/Immich_Notify

I use it and it works great.

[Thinkscape]

Requires a 3rd party app for actually receiving them - I won't have much luck getting my family installing and manually configuring it.

A proper integration would send push notifications from the Immich app.