Is it possibile to Sync to a Nextcloud instance?

[kintaro1981]

Hello, I have a hetzner storage share instance (Nextcloud) and I would like to know if it’s possibile with immich to sync to nextcloud like photosync does.

I know that immich is not the same as photosync, but maybe some features overlaps?

[alextran1502]

You can point UPLOAD_LOCATION to your Nextcloud instance and Immich will upload the files to that location

[metzger100]

The Problem is, that nextcloud won't notice that there are new Images in the nextcloud folder. You have to create a cron job or something like that which checks for changes in a regular basis to add it to the nextcloud database

[kintaro1981]

Why NC is not able to notice changes?

[metzger100]

Because it only updates the database when triggered. It doesn't scan for changes of the files by default. You have to trigger it.

[Yetangitu]

That is easily solved by running nextcloud-inotifyscan:

https://github.com/Blaok/nextcloud-inotifyscan

[kintaro1981]

Thank you @Yetangitu, sadly is a solution only for who self host nextcloud.
I doubt Hetzner is going to add nextcloud-inotifyscan to their storage share. :-(
I'm going to try to suggest it to Hetzner.

[boterocamilo]

@kintaro1981 did you find a way for doing it?
I'm looking for the same feature. ✌️

[kintaro1981]

I didn't try. But @alextran1502 is saying is possibile.
@muava12 have you tried if it detect subfolders?

[klendgit]

It should also be possible to mount nextcloud pictures as a webdav folder on your server and have it available in immich via the EXTERNAL_PATH construction. I use that method with a Hetzner Storage Box (no nextcloud) and sshfs

[Sulmuza]

unfortunately webdav is too slow

[kintaro1981]

Slow but fully working subdirectories included?