I’m kind of surprised I’ve struggled with this so long. Right now I’ve been using nextcloud camera upload, and mostly it works ok but shits the bed once in a while without me noticing and I need to spend time fixing it and it’s never as simple as turning it off and on again.
I recently tried syncthing, and while it works, it frequently crashed and got stuck in a state where it says it’s on and working by my destination folder is shown as disconnected, and the options to restart syncthing from the side menu are greyed out and the only way to make it work again is by force closing it and reopening it.
I’m running vanilla stock Google Android and truenas, does anyone have a better solution?
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Immich
Immich supports image uploads from a phone?
Yes.
It can also sync across the internet if you have it set up appropriately.Very neat and they have recently implemented (chrome) casting capability into the app.
This is cool, unfortunately for me I’m too lazy to set up like 5 dockers for immich right now lol.
Looks like much but it’s basically copy pasting the base compose and adjusting for your current infrastructure.
The actual work comes with ingesting the data.
I saw the compose earlier, doesn’t it call for an external db, among other things?
If it’s just that compose I’ll probably implement this tomorrow.
Yep, all you need are
docker-compose.yml,hwaccel.ml.yml,hwaccel.transcoding.ymland the.envfile.
And moat of that is copy pasting the template and adjusting (sticking the version number, choosing GPU/ML accelerator, etc.) ig
Yes
How can I sync all my photos locally to a new phone / device? Last I tried it, I had to sync one picture at a time
I wouldnt use immich like that.
You backup your images to immich.
Once there, you keep them there primarily and stream what you need (redownloading like it works on Google photos doesnt work like that as it stores the pictures in it’s own folder).
At least that’s how I use it.Hm ok. I prefer to have a complete set of pictures on the phone in case the server goes to shit, as a third backup
I think I will stick to syncthing
After managing pictures from my phones and DSLR I finally took the time to set up immich.
And it was definitely worth it.- USB cable from iPhone to PC.
- Sort by date in filemanager.
- Copy all images since last date backed up to my PC.
- Review and delete crappy images.
- Move to my NAS via filemanager.
- Create a textfile called t.ex. 07juli (so that next time I know to copy files after this date, since I like to keep most pics on my phone).
Do this once or twice a month :)
I use Syncthing to sync DCIM and Pictures folders from Android to my computer. Every six month or so, I move pictures from these folder to the folder for this years pictures: home/pictures/2025. So they disappear from my phone as well, which is great to free up space. This works great for me.
rclone is pretty reliable. That’s how I back up my nextcloud to two different object storage sites. I have Nextcloud dockerized on a VPS in the cloud (among other dockerized services for selfhosting). Been syncing nonstop for 3 years now. I also used rclone to sync all my files from OneDrive directly to my VPS block storage. Rclone is a very underrated utility.
Check your Syncthing settings. It’s a very reliable piece of software. Other than that Immich, but that’s a slightly different use case.
I’ve been using FolderSync. It let’s you sync to/from a remote server through a bunch of different protocols like SMB, SFTP, and WebDAV. You can schedule it to run automatically.
I haven’t tried it myself, but I think there is a way you can get Tasker to run scripts in Termux. You could set up your own rsync scripts that way.
When SyncThing is correctly configured (battery optimizations , etc.), you won’t have any issues. (I’ve been using SyncThing for many many years now.)
Any suggestions on how to optimize it? :)
Using it on my steamdeck and on-demand on my phone.Set up a “global” ignore file that gets synced between devices. Call it
.stignoreglobalfor example and and change the.stignorefile (which doesnt get synced) on every device to only include. Now your ignore state gets synced between devices and you can make changes from anywhere.Mine looks like this:
// Incomplete Downloads *.part *.crdownload // OS-generated files desktop.ini Thumbs.db // Cache cache spotifycache // Unity analytics Unity // LineageOS updater org.lineageos.updater // No read access :( /Android/{data,obb}You can learn how to write one yourself here: https://docs.syncthing.net/users/ignoring.html
Other stuff:
- On Android I use this: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.github.catfriend1.syncthingandroid/
- Some Info on how you can reduce battery usage: https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android/blob/main/wiki/Info-on-battery-optimization-and-settings-affecting-battery-usage.md
- Make sure SyncThing is excluded from your phone’s battery optimizations (varies by vendor).
- To save on mobile bandwidth I have it set up to only sync on WiFi.
- You can set up a symmetric key (basically a password) and sync your stuff to a friends instance. Your friend will not be able to read the data without the key (make sure it’s a long random string). This also helps if you’re running a SyncThing instance on a VPS for example.
As others has posted. Immich or photoprism. But, i’d check your settings, nextcloud instant upload and syncthing work wonders for me.
I wasn’t aware that either of these had a syncing feature. How well does immich work? I’ve been looking to switch to it from phptoprism for a while
Sorry. Couldnt help you with that. I use nextcloud and syncthing myself.
Havent try immich but i heard immich was the next best thing, be aware though, last i heard even the dev said the app was in active development so things might break.
I’m getting my first server up and running and always considered getting immich. But lately I’m leaning towards photoprism because of updates breaking immich sometimes apparently and photoprism being more mature(?).
Why do you want to switch?Didnt have any issue so far with immich.
A case of not reading the release notes? (no offense just asking)
And tbf, they say they arent fully done for now. Essentially a very public beta.Good to know, thank you!
It wasn’t very clear, but that was based on other people’s comments; I haven’t gotten to installing either of them. (I need to get on it lol). But that makes sense. I saw people say just don’t auto update, because it is early days like you said.They explicitly mention in the deployment steps to pin the release number.
After that it’s just a case of reading the patch notes and looking out for breaking changes.And obviously keeping backups :)
