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Would this flow work with Immich & Syncthing to copy images and auto upload and delete? (programming.dev)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Mir@programming.dev to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I would like new images to be uploaded to Immich from my phone and deleted after 30 days automatically, so I was thinking about this flow:

  1. I will Sync files to the server using Syncthing

  2. I will Copy files from the Synced folder to an Immich Consume folder, (not sure how to copy only new files (maybe use created date)). Then delete images that are older than 30 days which will remove them from my phone.

  3. I will upload to Immich using Immich CLI (?) which will use the delete after upload flag.

Basically:  

(1)

Camera, Screenshots, etc =Syncthing=> SyncthingImageConsume/{Folder}

(2)

{Script on SyncthingImageConsume}

SyncthingImageConsume/{Folder} =CopyNewFiles=> ImmichConsume/{Folder}

Then delete older than 30 days.

(3)

{Script on ImmichConsume}

Upload to immich and then delete

 

would this work? and is there a better way to do it? any tips?

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[-] couch1potato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I just set up something similar a couple weeks ago because I wanted to upload named album folders as albums into immich.

Workflow is:

Syncthing to sync phone folder to folder on unraid server.

2nd syncthing instance to sync above folder to "photo albums" folder.

Immich-go cron job runs hourly to upload photo albums folder to immich

I used immich-go because the CLI upload with album tag kept failing and apparently it's a common issue so.. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ immich-go worked first try.

Now all my photos are uploaded as albums with no manual input:

[-] Mir@programming.dev 2 points 6 months ago

Thank you. First person to not advise me to use something other than immich for this. And thanks for the heads up about the CLI, can you share the upload script?

[-] couch1potato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Sure... I'm on unraid...

cd /mnt/user/appdata_docker/immich/immich-go
./immich-go -server=http://192.168.20.1:8080 -key=IMMICH_API_KEY upload -create-album-folder -when-no-date=FILE /mnt/user/photo_libraries```


![](https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/5155dc7f-1545-4e07-b7ec-4721e5fec43a.jpeg)


There are other flag arguments that may be applicable to your use case... I'd suggest finding immich-go documentation on github and reading. It's not that intense of a read.
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