Immich

Immich photos

Pull screensaver and gallery photos from your self-hosted Immich instance.

TODO: screenshot of the screensaver showing a photo from Immich

What it does

• Picks a configured Immich album (or auto-rotates through monthly albums) and serves photos to the screensaver + gallery widget
• Photo metadata (location, date) appears as an overlay on the screensaver
• Auto-rotates through the album at a configurable interval (default 30 s)

What it does not

• Doesn't upload to Immich; one-way read only
• No album browsing UI in Kinboard — pick an album in /settings, that's the active one
• Doesn't deduplicate photos already shown today

Setup

1. Create an Immich API key

In Immich: your profile (top-right) → Account Settings → API Keys → + New API Key. Copy the value.

2. Configure in Kinboard

1. Open Settings → Photos
2. Choose Immich as the source
3. Click Connect to Immich
4. Immich Server URL — without /api. If LAN: http://<immich-ip>:2283. Behind reverse proxy: https://immich.example.com.
5. API Key — paste
6. Connect

3. Pick an album

The dropdown shows all albums you can access with that key. Two modes:

• Automatic (monthly album) — Kinboard looks for an album whose name matches the current month + year (e.g. 2026-05, May 2026, Mai 2026) and uses it. Falls back to a default album if none match.
• Specific album — pick one and the screensaver always uses it.

The Refresh albums button re-queries Immich if you've just created a new album.

Album naming for monthly auto mode

Kinboard matches against three patterns when picking the "current month" album:

${year}-${MM}                     → "2026-05"
toLocaleDateString("en-US", …)    → "May 2026"
toLocaleDateString("de-DE", …)    → "Mai 2026"

Match is case-insensitive substring against album.name. Pick whichever convention you already use in Immich.

Rotation interval

Set in Settings → Screensaver → Photo rotation, not in the photo source settings. Defaults to 30 s. Range is 10 s to 5 min.

Disconnecting

Settings → Photos → Disconnect (under the Immich connection panel). The screensaver falls back to the configured fallback (Unsplash, if set, or clock-only mode if neither is configured).

Troubleshooting

Symptom	Likely cause
"Connection failed" on connect	URL has /api suffix (drop it), or wrong protocol, or API key invalid
Album dropdown is empty	API key has no album access — Immich permissions issue
Photos load slowly on the screensaver	First load fetches asset metadata + thumbnails; subsequent loads are cached. If chronically slow, your Immich box may be the bottleneck
Photos rotate but always the same N	The album has fewer photos than you expected. Kinboard caches the asset list per session.

Related

• OpenWeatherMap — Unsplash is the secondary photo source if you don't run Immich
• See webapp/src/components/screensaver.tsx for the screensaver internals