There are solutions like ente and immich but I think they both are pretty overkill for my use case. I almost never look through my old photos so I don't need an app and a web UI or whatever. The face detection thing does not entice me either. I don't need encryption either.
Is there a simpler solution for this? I am thinking of just writing a script that syncs the camera folder using adb or something like that. But before I create a jank monstrosity I thought it would be better to ask around.
I went the jank monstrosity path. Well, a few scripts anyway.
I use an app called SimpleSSHD on the phone that lets me ssh in. Then rsync to transfer files. The script to sync pictures is like this:
# file 'droidip' contains the local wifi ip of the phone. dip=$(cat droidip) rsync --append-verify --progress -avz -e "ssh -p 2222" root@$dip:/sdcard/DCIM/Camera newphonepixTruthfully it was as much about learning rsync as anything, and now I'm sticking with it because momentum I guess. adb is way faster if you really need to move a lot of files.
This. I don't even need real "scripts", I just plug my big drive into my laptop, start dropbear and use the shell (fish) history to get the right command. Takes about 15s to do everything :p
If you want a more continuous thing, you can look into Syncthing or something like that.