Looking to switch my photos over to immich hosted on my PC. I want to be able to:
- send photos from my phone to PC
- delete them off of my phone and have them safe on my PC
- I don’t need to do this all the time, so I figured immich on my local network is fine. Then I don’t have to figure out wireguard.
However, right now I have free VPN on my phone. I can’t access immich, but I suppose this is why. I also believe that if I have VPN features that allow me to select which apps use VPN and which do not, I could route immich to ignore the VPN, and I would be able to see it on my local network.
Am I on the right track?
You VPN may have an option under settings called Split-Tunneling - Most well-established VPN providers will have this. This allows you to set the local subnet for your network, and it’ll bypass the VPNs so that local connections are local. Check it out. Otherwise, what you propose works, yes, as long as you’re okay with having that laptop as a single point of failure for your content. At least get an external drive and periodically backup to it as well, and have that drive elsewhere. Good enough starting point.
Thanks!
Yes! split-tunneling was the term I was looking for.
Good-enough is exactly what I’m going for, lol. I will get an SSD for backup.