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How would you upload to Immich?

You can pair the camera with your Android phone and use that to do whatever.

But also, manufacturers could do apps and support APIs without adding a whole Android OS with all the downsides that it entails.

But maybe we're talking about different kind of cameras.

I have never seen camera that actually did anything useful with the pairing mode. It's inevitably buggy and useless, also requiring a manufacturer's app on the phone.

That's why it's _still_ easier to just pop the SD-card and copy files. So even Apple had to add the SD slot back to Mac Books.

I agree, but your camera doesn't currently have Android either, so you're comparing current situation to what could be. The manufacturers could fix the bugs and make pairing more useful. I'd rather have manufacturers app on my phone than Android on my camera.

Using their extensively documented restful API is the most obvious option to me: https://api.immich.app/endpoints

I mean, yes. But how would you put the code that utilizes this API onto the camera?

Ah. I didn't realize you were looking to install arbitrary android apps on a camera.

That does exist. Samsung used to make android interchangeable lens cameras, and now Yongnuo does.

I owned that Samsung camera (Samsung Galaxy Camera)! Samsung made ONE model and then abandoned it.

It was awesome for its time, I could make pictures at a party, upload them to Picassa right away, and share them with a friend. It had a GPS receiver (a thing that cameras STIL!!!!! lack) so I had automatic geotagging.

I tried to get YN455, but they don't sell them in the US and apparently it doesn't even have proper English localization. I do speak some Mandarin, but I still want something localized.

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