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ImmichFrame vs Immich Kiosk: which photo frame fits your setup?

Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Last year we wrote about Immich Kiosk and ImmichFrame. Both projects have shipped a lot of releases since. The question we get from users has changed with them. It used to be “can I do this?” Now it is “which one should I pick?”

On the surface, they do the same thing. Both connect to your Immich server with an API key and show your photos full screen on a display somewhere in your home. Both are community projects, not affiliated with Immich. Both work with a PixelUnion account the same way they work with a self-hosted server: point them at https://<username>.pixelunion.eu and give them an API key.

We rebuilt our login page, and the stack underneath it

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The login page is the one screen every PixelUnion user sees, usually several times a week. Until now it was the default Keycloak look with our logo on top. It worked. It also looked like enterprise software from 2014, and it did not tell you anything about where your photos actually live. So we rebuilt it, together with the account console behind it.

Quick recap for context: since our move to Keycloak, Keycloak is our identity provider (IdP). It handles your password, two-factor authentication, passkeys, and “Sign in with Google”, so Immich itself never has to. That part stays exactly the same. What changed is everything you see while it does that work.

The Digital Guillotine: A Wake-Up Call for Your Data

Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

At PixelUnion, our mission has always been clear: free your photos from American tech platforms. We built our service on European soil with open-source values because we believe privacy and safety are not optional. Recent events in the world of global justice have proven that our concerns were not just theoretical; they are an urgent reality.

The United States has launched an unprecedented campaign to dismantle the International Criminal Court (ICC), using its dominance over the global financial and digital infrastructure as a weapon. This is a “flagrant attack” on the international legal order, and it carries a clear message for every individual, organization, and developer: it is time to move everything out of the US jurisdiction.

immich-archiver: mirroring your photo library to your own disk

Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

PixelUnion keeps your photos on European servers with redundancy and monitoring. That is our job, and we take it seriously.

The standard advice for data you care about is the 3-2-1 rule: three copies, on two different storage types, with one copy off-site. Our end of that is handled. We protect against disasters, not only against a disk dying, and that is something you can rely on. What we cannot be is a copy that sits in your own house, on hardware you own, readable without an account and without us. Plenty of people want that too, and it is a reasonable thing to want.

The AI inside your photo library, and why we moved it onto our own GPUs

Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

When you search your photo library for “dog in the snow” and the right picture comes up, something has already read that photo for you. No one tagged it. A machine learning model looked at the pixels, decided what was in the frame, and stored that understanding so you could find it later. We recently moved that work from CPUs onto our own GPUs (graphics processing units). This post explains what the AI actually does, and why the hardware underneath it matters.