Config File

[chagle]

Hello there.

The more I use Cloudron, the better it gets. However, one thing I cannot get my head around.

I want to make a few tweaks to the Immich config, even something as basic as the Login Welcome Message. You can't do it from the GUI, as "Config is currently set by a config file" -- Which is fine but... (unless I'm missing something here).

in /app/data/ there is "immich.json" which only consists of "{}"
(without quotes).

I was expecting a file to be full of config like :

https://immich.app/docs/install/config-file/

Am I missing something?

Thank you

[BrutalBirdie]

@chagle said in Config File:

I was expecting a file to be full of config like

No
You place in that file parts of the config which you want to override. Because

The default configuration looks like this

https://immich.app/docs/install/config-file/

{
  "ffmpeg": {
    "crf": 23,
    "threads": 0,
    "preset": "ultrafast",
    "targetVideoCodec": "h264",
    "acceptedVideoCodecs": ["h264"],
    "targetAudioCodec": "aac",
    "acceptedAudioCodecs": ["aac", "mp3", "libopus", "pcm_s16le"],
    "acceptedContainers": ["mov", "ogg", "webm"],
    "targetResolution": "720",
    "maxBitrate": "0",
    "bframes": -1,
    "refs": 0,
    "gopSize": 0,
    "temporalAQ": false,
    "cqMode": "auto",
    "twoPass": false,
    "preferredHwDevice": "auto",
    "transcode": "required",
    "tonemap": "hable",
    "accel": "disabled",
    "accelDecode": false
  },
  "backup": {
    "database": {
      "enabled": true,
      "cronExpression": "0 02 * * *",
      "keepLastAmount": 14
    }
  },
  "job": {
    "backgroundTask": {
      "concurrency": 5
    },
    "smartSearch": {
      "concurrency": 2
    },
    "metadataExtraction": {
      "concurrency": 5
    },
    "faceDetection": {
      "concurrency": 2
    },
    "search": {
      "concurrency": 5
    },
    "sidecar": {
      "concurrency": 5
    },
    "library": {
      "concurrency": 5
    },
    "migration": {
      "concurrency": 5
    },
    "thumbnailGeneration": {
      "concurrency": 3
    },
    "videoConversion": {
      "concurrency": 1
    },
    "notifications": {
      "concurrency": 5
    }
  },
  "logging": {
    "enabled": true,
    "level": "log"
  },
  "machineLearning": {
    "enabled": true,
    "urls": ["http://immich-machine-learning:3003"],
    "clip": {
      "enabled": true,
      "modelName": "ViT-B-32__openai"
    },
    "duplicateDetection": {
      "enabled": true,
      "maxDistance": 0.01
    },
    "facialRecognition": {
      "enabled": true,
      "modelName": "buffalo_l",
      "minScore": 0.7,
      "maxDistance": 0.5,
      "minFaces": 3
    }
  },
  "map": {
    "enabled": true,
    "lightStyle": "https://tiles.immich.cloud/v1/style/light.json",
    "darkStyle": "https://tiles.immich.cloud/v1/style/dark.json"
  },
  "reverseGeocoding": {
    "enabled": true
  },
  "metadata": {
    "faces": {
      "import": false
    }
  },
  "oauth": {
    "autoLaunch": false,
    "autoRegister": true,
    "buttonText": "Login with OAuth",
    "clientId": "",
    "clientSecret": "",
    "defaultStorageQuota": 0,
    "enabled": false,
    "issuerUrl": "",
    "mobileOverrideEnabled": false,
    "mobileRedirectUri": "",
    "scope": "openid email profile",
    "signingAlgorithm": "RS256",
    "profileSigningAlgorithm": "none",
    "storageLabelClaim": "preferred_username",
    "storageQuotaClaim": "immich_quota"
  },
  "passwordLogin": {
    "enabled": true
  },
  "storageTemplate": {
    "enabled": false,
    "hashVerificationEnabled": true,
    "template": "{{y}}/{{y}}-{{MM}}-{{dd}}/{{filename}}"
  },
  "image": {
    "thumbnail": {
      "format": "webp",
      "size": 250,
      "quality": 80
    },
    "preview": {
      "format": "jpeg",
      "size": 1440,
      "quality": 80
    },
    "colorspace": "p3",
    "extractEmbedded": false
  },
  "newVersionCheck": {
    "enabled": true
  },
  "trash": {
    "enabled": true,
    "days": 30
  },
  "theme": {
    "customCss": ""
  },
  "library": {
    "scan": {
      "enabled": true,
      "cronExpression": "0 0 * * *"
    },
    "watch": {
      "enabled": false
    }
  },
  "server": {
    "externalDomain": "",
    "loginPageMessage": ""
  },
  "notifications": {
    "smtp": {
      "enabled": false,
      "from": "",
      "replyTo": "",
      "transport": {
        "ignoreCert": false,
        "host": "",
        "port": 587,
        "username": "",
        "password": ""
      }
    }
  },
  "user": {
    "deleteDelay": 7
  }
}

So this means, all that JSON is implicit and does not need to be present in that file to exist.

So you can just override with e.g.

# This command will override everything in /app/data/immich.json use with care
jq -n '.server["loginPageMessage"]="Welcome to the Thunderdome!"' > /app/data/immich.json

[chagle]

Oh! Actually, what a good idea. Thanks. ️

[BrutalBirdie]

Also see:
https://docs.cloudron.io/apps/immich/#settings

After changing the file, the app needs to be restarted.