photo sync turned out to be mostly built already. officer proxies immich through
officer-photos, and that sidecar's allow-list already permits the `assets`
resource for GET/POST/PUT/DELETE — so immich's own upload and bulk-upload-check
endpoints are already reachable with officer's auth in front and the immich key
never leaving the sidecar. the deliverable is therefore the contract, not a new
ingest service.
three gaps are written down rather than papered over:
- immich is not currently connected in officer (_health says configured:false),
so none of it could be verified live. the api key moved out of .env and was
never re-entered in the ui. owner action.
- upload bodies are buffered twice, once in createSidecarProxy and once in the
photos sidecar. nothing fails at phone-photo sizes; a video library would be
unpleasant. fixing it touches the shared factory, so it is a decision.
- no resumable upload. immich's own app has the same limitation.
file sync is design-only, as agreed. the recommendation is syncthing supervised
as a sidecar rather than reimplementing nextcloud's sync protocol — a mount is
not a sync, and the local-first replica is the whole feature.
the iOS answer is stated plainly because it changes the design: continuous
background sync is not possible there, which is why nextcloud's own iOS app is
manual too. if iOS matters, webdav becomes first-class rather than optional, and
that is the owner's call to make before any code is written.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
