That's a great idea that I haven't thought about, but I'm using couple of apps to view and the network thing is less convenient albeit attractive solution that I might look into. Thank you

Thank you

I think it has wake on Lan, so that means any connection attempt would wake it?

Ah yes that just downed on me today, I need to figure out how to only copy new items

Thank you so much, perfect explanation.

Do you keep the stuff on your phone then? how does syncthing handles deleting if you're deleting? did you set up the folder as send only?

I'm working on setting it up for me to do so:

1. Manually move some pics on my phone to "Inbox" folder (To be sorted in albums later)
2. Syncthing will automatically sync "Inbox" and "Camera" folders to "Syncthing Consume"
3. A job to copy from "Syncthing Consume" to "Immich Consume"
4. Immich Go will move everything to Immich
5. Anything in the Inbox Album will get sorted to different albums at some point
6. Eventually anything that isn't synced will be removed from my phone

I just noticed something else that is mildly annoying, after I move them to album I have to run the template migration job to move to the correct folder.

Can you tell me about the syncthing set up, how do you have the folders set up to sync?

for instance I have DCIM with folders inside it, do you sync the whole folder or for each folder inside it like "Camera, Screenshot" etc?

My problem is that external libraries are readonly

Thank you for the suggestion, they seem to be readonly, I was hoping I could delete/rename photos using them.

Although, it will try to upload all photos every time

I will use the argument which makes it delete after upload, this way if it wasn't deleted then it wasn't uploaded and needs to be uploaded, hopefully the CLI is smart to do so.

I want it to use the folder name as album name, I was hoping that it would do the same for nested folders

(except I manually sort through my photos on a semi-weekly basis before I upload it to Immich).

I think that would be a better approach if I weren't very lazy, I think even after the initial run I could do that since I don't take lots of pictures but I was thinking about a fire and forget sort of thing.

If you want, I can cook up a little Python script you could stick into Cron to do all the tasks you described.

Thank you so much, I asked ChatGPT and it generated the bat file below (since I'm using Windows) do you think this would work?

@echo off
REM Change directory to your photos folder
cd /d "C:\path\to\your\photos\folder"

REM Sync files to backup folder
robocopy . "C:\path\to\your\Camera_Backup" /mir /xo

REM Delete files older than 15 days
forfiles /p "C:\path\to\your\photos\folder" /s /m *.* /d -15 /c "cmd /c if @isdir==FALSE del @file"

REM Upload assets using immich cli
immich upload "C:\path\to\your\Camera_Backup" -r -a --delete

I want to use immich mostly for viewing

What do you use it for