Has anyone found a way to automatically sync photos from an iphone over a LAN to Rockstor? Currently I am simply uploading pictures from my iphone with SFTP. It works well enough, but is also a manual process and would prefer something automated.
I am running Rockstor as a VM on a Proxmox hypervisor.
If it is of any help, I’m doing it manually using SAMBA and FE File Explorer on my iPhone. I’ve not explored an automated method.
I believe SYNCTHING can do that sort of thing - there may be a Rockon available for it.
@GeoffA Re:
Yes we have this and it is included in our “Rock-ons with write-ups” doc section here:
https://rockstor.com/docs/interface/overview.html#rock-ons-with-write-ups
See “Syncthing Rock-on”:
https://rockstor.com/docs/interface/docker-based-rock-ons/syncthing.html
But this approach would require a syncthing app for iPhone. Haven’t looked into availability on that front myself.
Hope that helps.
It’s getting more interesting now… it looks like there is a syncthing client for iPhones - https://www.mobiussync.com/
Note that I’ve not yet tried it. I’m enjoying the day off with a grandbaby and no one else is awake, leaving me time to enjoy a coffee in peace & quiet and expand the to-do list for when I get home.
A little follow-up here… I have Syncthing running and it works great for other computers.
Mobius works as well but there are limitations: the big one is that I can’t target the photos library on the iPhone. That directory doesn’t seem to be browsable and I don’t know the path (or perhaps Apple doesn’t want me to know the path - I don’t know… I’m not an Apple guy, I just happen to have a iPhone).
For the photos, I’ll just continue to copy them to Rockstor using FE File Explorer. Honestly, 90% of the photos aren’t worth keeping anyway. 