Upload Problems Through Cloudflare
I discovered tonight that my Immich phone app has been unable to upload a number of videos due to being over 100 MB. I use Cloudflare as my public endpoint on a free account, so the upload limit is 100 MB. For other reasons now fixed, my network switching when I get home on Wi-Fi is working again.
Have you given any thoughts to chunking uploads so systems like Cloudflare aren't breaking them with upload limits? Might make uploading more reliable as well when retries need to occur.
As far as observing the behavior of the app when the upload limit is impacting, the upload progresses of, for example, a 2 GB video, but never makes it to the Immich server. So my phone exerts the effort, data is consumed, with no reward. Immich never indicates a failure.
Phone and server are 1.132.3 currently.
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If this ticket can be closed you can use the /close command, and re-open it later if needed.The idea has been brought up but doesn't exist currently. Something you can do is have the Immich app connect to the server locally when you are on the same network
And I have that now, but that doesn't work for family who doesn't live with me
#1674
Thank you! Voted ⬆️
Comments are locked, but if it hasn't been mentioned before, family + Cloudflare (or similar services) are a good and probably more and more common use case
Yeah, we are well aware of its use
1. Its much harder to implement than it seems
2. Many of us dont love CF because they can read all your data as its transferred
It might come down the line though
@Hossy you can also have a look at pangolin, which is what I am using. Also keep in mind that the ToS of cloudflare used to list video and photo traffic as not allowed, as it's designed for html web traffic.