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?

  • 3aqn5k6ryk@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 day ago

    As others has posted. Immich or photoprism. But, i’d check your settings, nextcloud instant upload and syncthing work wonders for me.

    • yeehaw@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      1·
      22 hours ago

      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

      • IncogCyberspaceUser@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        16 hours ago

        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?

        • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          3·
          10 hours ago

          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.

          • IncogCyberspaceUser@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            10 hours ago

            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.

            • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              2·
              10 hours ago

              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 :)

      • 3aqn5k6ryk@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        19 hours ago

        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.

        • yeehaw@lemmy.caOPEnglish
          1·
          20 minutes ago

          I think it’s because I have 150GB of photos on 2 different phones and don’t clean them out often.

    • lemming741@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      23 hours ago

      Photoprism recommends you download a $5 app. It works ok enough, but they are clearly trying to monetize.