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Rebased on current main.

ExcludedPeople is a per-account list of Immich person IDs. Any asset containing one of those people is dropped from the slideshow, the same way ExcludedAlbums drops an album's assets.

Accounts:
  - ImmichServerUrl: http://your-server:2283
    ApiKey: "your-api-key"
    People:
      - 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001  # show photos of this person
    ExcludedPeople:
      - 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000003  # but not if this person is in them too

One thing changed since the last review: exclusion now applies to every pool, not just People.

@3rob3 raised that this wouldn't work alongside Albums. That was true when I opened this PR, and it isn't anymore. AlbumAssetsPool no longer calls GetAlbumInfoAsync. Since a37014c and accad5a it goes through /search/metadata with AlbumIds and WithPeople, and GetAlbumInfoAsync is now unused anywhere in the codebase. The album/people asymmetry I described in January is gone.

So rather than special-casing albums, the filter now sits in ApplyAccountFilters next to the existing ExcludedAlbums line, which means the album, favorite, memory, people, tag and all-assets pools all get it. PersonAssetsPool is untouched by this PR now, where the earlier version rewrote it.

Measured against my own library, where the excluded person appears in 2481 assets:

pool before after
album 3184 2839
people 1434 883
favorites 2 0
memories 7 6

For the all-assets pool a 400-asset control sample contained 44 of that person's assets, and none after filtering.

Excluded assets are matched by id rather than by reading asset.People. Reading People would avoid the extra fetch, but it depends on every pool setting WithPeople, and they don't: GetExcludedAlbumAssets doesn't set it, and memory assets arrive without it and only get it back-filled per asset. Matching by id costs one paged personIds search per excluded person, cached the same way the excluded-album lookup is, and keeps exclusion correct regardless of how a pool fetched its assets.

No Immich version change needed. The only call this adds is /search/metadata with personIds, which PersonAssetsPool already makes.

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  • New Features

    • Added account-level configuration to exclude media featuring specific people.
    • Excluded people can be configured using person IDs in JSON, YAML, or environment settings.
    • Matching assets are filtered from displayed media, including across large collections and multiple people.
  • Documentation

    • Updated sample configuration files with ExcludedPeople examples.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for pagination, multiple exclusions, empty settings, filtering, and request cancellation.

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The change adds ExcludedPeople configuration, retrieves matching assets through paginated person searches, caches them, and removes them during account-level asset filtering. Tests cover pagination, aggregation, empty or null settings, cancellation, and asset exclusion.

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Excluded people asset filtering

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Excluded people settings contract
ImmichFrame.Core/Interfaces/IServerSettings.cs, ImmichFrame.WebApi/Models/ServerSettings.cs, ImmichFrame.WebApi/Helpers/Config/ServerSettingsV1.cs, ImmichFrame.WebApi.Tests/Resources/*, docker/Settings.example.*, docker/example.env
Account settings, server models, adapters, test resources, and configuration examples expose ExcludedPeople as a GUID collection.
Asset loading and exclusion filtering
ImmichFrame.Core/Helpers/AssetHelper.cs, ImmichFrame.Core/Helpers/AssetExtensionMethods.cs, ImmichFrame.Core/Logic/Pool/AllAssetsPool.cs, ImmichFrame.Core/Logic/Pool/CachingApiAssetsPool.cs
Excluded-person assets are fetched with paginated searches, cached, and passed to filtering. Matching asset IDs are removed from results.
Excluded people behavior tests
ImmichFrame.Core.Tests/Helpers/AssetHelperTests.cs, ImmichFrame.Core.Tests/Logic/Pool/CachingApiAssetsPoolTests.cs
Tests cover pagination, multiple excluded people, empty and null settings, cancellation-token forwarding, and exclusion of matching assets.

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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 09865

This change adds per-account person exclusions across asset pools, and no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant CachingApiAssetsPool
  participant AssetHelper
  participant ImmichApi
  participant AssetExtensionMethods
  CachingApiAssetsPool->>AssetHelper: GetExcludedPeopleAssets
  AssetHelper->>ImmichApi: SearchAssetsAsync by PersonIds
  ImmichApi-->>AssetHelper: Return paginated assets
  AssetHelper-->>CachingApiAssetsPool: Return excluded people assets
  CachingApiAssetsPool->>AssetExtensionMethods: ApplyAccountFilters with excluded assets
  AssetExtensionMethods-->>CachingApiAssetsPool: Return filtered assets
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In `@ImmichFrame.Core/Logic/Pool/PeopleAssetsPool.cs`:
- Around line 49-53: In PeopleAssetsPool (file PeopleAssetsPool.cs) the
pagination uses while (total == batchSize) but should loop while the current
page returned a full batch; change the loop condition to check the returned item
count (e.g., personInfo.Assets.Items.Count == batchSize or lastPageCount ==
batchSize) and remove the unused total variable; ensure you continue
incrementing page and adding personInfo.Assets.Items to assets until a page
returns fewer than batchSize items.
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ImmichFrame.Core.Tests/Logic/Pool/PersonAssetsPoolTests.cs (1)

42-42: Consider adding tests for the exclusion behavior.

The mock setup for ExcludedPeople is correct and mirrors the AlbumAssetsPoolTests pattern. However, there are no tests verifying that assets from excluded people are actually filtered out from the results.

Consider adding test cases similar to AlbumAssetsPoolTests.LoadAssets_NoIncludedAlbums_ReturnsEmpty (see relevant snippet at lines 73-84) to verify:

  1. Assets belonging to excluded people are removed from results
  2. Assets appearing in both included and excluded people are omitted

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I'm surprised this was so simple. It has been awhile since I attempted this, but I thought there was an Immich API issue where something (albums maybe?) didn't include person info?

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I'm surprised this was so simple. It has been awhile since I attempted this, but I thought there was an Immich API issue where something (albums maybe?) didn't include person info?

You're right, there is a limitation with the Album results.

The Issue with Albums on the Immich side:

  1. getAlbumInfo has no withPeople parameter - it only accepts id, key, and withoutAssets (lines 940-966 in the OpenAPI spec)
  2. people is NOT a required field in AssetResponseDto - Looking at the OpenAPI spec (line 9299-9319), the required fields are: checksum, deviceAssetId, deviceId, duration, fileCreatedAt, etc. The people field (line 9245-9250) is optional.
  3. Other endpoints have withPeople - The searchMetadata and searchRandom endpoints have WithPeople = true parameters, which is why they can request people data. Album fetching doesn't have this option.

The implication: When you call GetAlbumInfoAsync, the assets returned may have People = null because Immich doesn't guarantee that field is populated without explicit request.

To clarify the intent of this PR, the ExcludedPeople feature only filters out specific people from the People results because of the above limitations.

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Could you rebase this on master.

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Could you rebase this on master?

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ImmichFrame.Core/Logic/Pool/PeopleAssetsPool.cs (1)

30-37: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Use a set for excluded asset IDs.

WhereExcludes compares each included asset with every excluded asset. This causes O(included × excluded) comparisons after all pages load. Use a HashSet<Guid> to keep the filtering operation linear.

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-        return personAssets.WhereExcludes(excludedPersonAssets, t => t.Id);
+        var excludedAssetIds = new HashSet<Guid>(excludedPersonAssets.Select(asset => asset.Id));
+        return personAssets.Where(asset => !excludedAssetIds.Contains(asset.Id));
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In `@ImmichFrame.Core/Logic/Pool/PeopleAssetsPool.cs` around lines 30 - 37,
Replace the excludedPersonAssets list in the people-assets filtering flow with a
HashSet<Guid> of excluded asset IDs, populate it from LoadAssetsForPerson
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In `@ImmichFrame.Core/Logic/Pool/PeopleAssetsPool.cs`:
- Around line 30-37: Replace the excludedPersonAssets list in the people-assets
filtering flow with a HashSet<Guid> of excluded asset IDs, populate it from
LoadAssetsForPerson results, and update WhereExcludes to use the set for
constant-time membership checks while preserving the existing filtering
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@3rob3 @JW-CH rebased on current main, and this is a single feature again.

The Albums limitation I described in January doesn't apply anymore: AlbumAssetsPool stopped calling GetAlbumInfoAsync and now fetches through /search/metadata with WithPeople, so exclusion reaches album assets too. Excluding one person on my own library takes the album pool from 3184 assets to 2839. Numbers for the other pools are in the updated description.

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In `@ImmichFrame.Core/Logic/Pool/CachingApiAssetsPool.cs`:
- Line 24: Update the excluded-person asset retrieval in CachingApiAssetsPool to
pass the request cancellation token through to
AssetHelper.GetExcludedPeopleAssets, ensuring cancellation from GetAssets or
GetAssetCount propagates instead of using CancellationToken.None.
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Looks clean, and directly in line with ExcludedAlbums. I like it!

…eople

Adds a per-account ExcludedPeople list. Any asset containing one of the named
people is removed from the slideshow, mirroring how ExcludedAlbums already
works.

The exclusion is applied in ApplyAccountFilters, so it covers every pool
rather than one: album, favorite, memory, people, tag and all-assets.
AssetHelper.GetExcludedPeopleAssets fetches and pages the excluded people's
assets, and CachingApiAssetsPool/AllAssetsPool cache the result alongside the
existing excluded-album lookup.

Assets are matched by id rather than by inspecting each asset's people array,
because pools populate that field inconsistently: memory assets arrive without
it and are only back-filled per asset, and GetExcludedAlbumAssets does not
request it at all. Matching on id keeps the behaviour independent of how a
pool happened to fetch its assets.
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