I’d recommend dietpi and docker on your pi then manage services such as Immich with portainer and use caddy as a reverse proxy (super simple config and comes with things like let’s encrypt SSL built in). Also I’d suggest storing images on a mirrored raid array using two USB HDDs. And also storing an encrypted backup once a day somewhere on the cloud. Or at least in another location. This is what I’ve done anyway. Hope that gives you some things to look into!

So I have a large immich database and a slow CPU and really wish I spun up a docker swarm to kick in some extra CPU when needed. Otherwise, it does work exceptionally well on lower power devices, just takes a looooong time.

Oh, and read changelogs because not all updates go smooth. ;) My stack has been down since the last release and I haven’t had time to fix it.

I’ve only just bootstrapped it once for testing. I used the docker setup and it was trivial.

I don’t know anything about eduroam but if it’s your uni’s network then you’ll have to settle for local access only through a personal router.