How to Show all (Shared) Albums of a User?

[Johnson145]

I'm not sure whether I understand the album inclusion and exclusion rules. As both exist, I was expecting the default configuration to use all albums. However, instead I just get an error that no assets could get found. Is that expected or an error? Whitelisting UUIDs of each album works, but isn't really handy. I've read through similar threads and found the suggestion to create a separate user for immichframe. So I did. My goal is to always use all albums that are shared with that user. So that I can easily add new content using Immich.

PS: Very cool project, thank you very much!

[3rob3]

What you are asking for is the expected behavior. With a minimal config it will cycle through all assets randomly for that user. Can you share your config?

[Johnson145]

Thanks for the quick response!

I'll attach my current config, but probably that's not too relevant. The behavior was already the same when only providing the minimal config with server config and api key.

Installation is a new one using the latest state (as of yesterday).

Just an idea: When using the separate user to log into Immich itself, I've noticed that the default /photos url also just says Click to upload your first photo. Looks like it does not include the shared albums in the regular photo stream. If I click on Albums I do see all the albums and photos that are shared with that user though. Is it possible that you're also just fetching the images that are directly uploaded by the user and not the shared ones?

Current config:

ImmichServerUrl=xy
ApiKey=123
# AuthenticationSecret=
# Interval=10
# TransitionDuration=2
# ImageZoom=true
# ImagePan=false

# Allow two portrait images to be displayed next to each other
# # single | splitview
Layout=single

# DownloadImages=false
# ShowMemories=false
# ShowFavorites=false
# ShowArchived=false
# ImagesFromDays=
# ImagesFromDate=
# ImagesUntilDate=
# RenewImagesDuration=30
# Rating=5
#Albums="23de00a3-8520-48af-873c-5d7202e2968f"
#ExcludedAlbums=""
# People=PERSON1,PERSON2
# Webcalendars=https://calendar.mycalendar.com/basic.ics,webcal://calendar.mycalendar.com/basic.ics
# RefreshAlbumPeopleInterval=12
ShowClock=false
# ClockFormat=hh:mm
# ClockDateFormat=eee, MMM d
# ShowProgressBar=true
# ShowPhotoDate=true
PhotoDateFormat=dd.MM.yyyy
# ShowImageDesc=true
# ShowPeopleDesc=true
# ShowAlbumName=true
# ShowImageLocation=true

#ImageLocationFormat=City,State,Country
ImageLocationFormat=City,Country

# PrimaryColor=#F5DEB3
# SecondaryColor=#000000
# Style=none
# BaseFontSize=17px
# WeatherApiKey=
# ShowWeatherDescription=true
# WeatherIconUrl=https://openweathermap.org/img/wn/{IconId}.png
UnitSystem=metric
# WeatherLatLong=
Language=de
# Webhook=

[3rob3]

When using the separate user to log into Immich itself, I've noticed that the default /photos url also just says Click to upload your first photo. Looks like it does not include the shared albums in the regular photo stream. If I click on Albums I do see all the albums and photos that are shared with that user though. Is it possible that you're also just fetching the images that are directly uploaded by the user and not the shared ones?

This is your issue. Since you are using shared albums you would need to define/set that album(s) in ImmichFrame config. For your use case, wanting to show all the images randomly, I would not use a separate user. Just create an API key from your main user and use that.

[JW-CH]

As Rob said, no albums defined will only show your timeline assets. Since a shared user does not have any 'own' images, you have to specify the album IDs.

[Johnson145]

For your use case, wanting to show all the images randomly, I would not use a separate user. Just create an API key from your main user and use that.

I don't want to show all images of my main user. Just a selection of his albums. I thought it would be a good solution to create another user and share only the images I want to show. Such that I can easily decide to show new albums on ImmichFrame without having to edit the config file etc.

I guess the only solution without having to modify the config is then creating a single album and adding all desired images from other albums to that single one, right? I started with that approach, but rejected it, because I can't see the actual album name on ImmichFrame then.

Any reason why you don't include shared albums? Or just not implemented yet?

Btw, I do have quite a few albums I want to show. So copy and pasting all UUIDs individually would take quite some time. I did work around this by pasting Immich' album overview HTML to an LLM and prompting it to extract the UUIDs. That worked quite well and is fair enough for me right now.

[JW-CH]

The immich api does not deliver images from a shared album in the base request, only if you request a specific album. The go-to solution would be one big 'ImmichFrame' album where you add everything. As you mentioned, this would lose the album name, sadly.

[Johnson145]

What about a second API call to dynamically fetch all album ids before?

[JW-CH]

You could create a feature request, but I don't think this is a feature I want to implement right now. Contributions are welcome.