Setup

The following steps setup a RPi immich server with no media assets. Following this, you may migrate photos from your previous app.

Important

If you have a large amount of assets to migrate, the RPi may have a hard time processing the migrated assets. Immich runs CPU intensive encoding and AI algorithms on your assets. This may cause your RPi to overheat and power down.

One solution to this is to install a heat sink and manage jobs in the Administration > Jobs page. A better solution is to setup a temporary immich instance on a more powerful machine to import and process photos before setting up the RPi. You can follow the Migration Processing Off RPi setup steps for this solution.