Automatic upload of photos from phone?
This is a really elementary question but I can't figure it out. What options or albums should I choose on the mobile app to have photos uploaded to the server more or less as I take them?
If I select "Recents" there are two problems (0r 25,001, depending on how you count). The first is that there are about 25,000 photos in that album, including all kinds of crap from whatsapp and so on. I only want pictures taken with the camera.
The second problem — related — is that the upload appears to be incredibly slow. Even when I remove the "Recents" library from the list of things to sync and select some recent photos by hand none of them appear on the main server. That has been populated already with Google takeouts, so there will be considerable duplication if the phone is trying to upload all the pictures in my Google account.
Hmm. If I could manually set up an album for "All pictures taken with the camera after ${end of takeout date}" that might solve the problem, but how to do that?
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If this ticket can be closed you can use the /close command, and re-open it later if needed.We don't support what you're asking. 25,000 on device images is a lot
You would probably have to just let it run for a few days
Thanks. I have no idea where all those images came from, except that a lot of them are from "media" folders, and so presumably cached from web sites
But do you support the automatic syncing of recent files?
Not unless they’re contained in an album
Killing the "recents" album brought the total down to around 750 pictures. But it is still incredibly slow, on a fast connection: the "Uploading File info" screen shows them being uploaded at 1.97 KB/s, which is absurd.
I am running the latest app version on both (Android) phone and server (Docker, under Ubuntu).
What’s the specs of your server and how are you connecting?
This wouldn’t be an immich issue, immich can easily saturate any storage medium you throw at it
The server is a repurposed Asus desktop — 8gb of memory, some kind of INtel core processor, lots of SSD
Perhaps if I used the internal IP address for the server, rather than the external DNS name? How can I change that in the mobile app?
I can't find the setting, though I must have used it once
You can set multiple urls in the settings somewhere
But yeah I’d explore your network , immich will upload way faster than that
Ah. flipping over to the internal IP address got things working as they should. Thanks for the tip!
32.6 MB/s