Scheduled upload of images

@erikture – There is no automatic process but you may be able to programmatically create one, unfortunately this sort of custom code creation is outside the scope of support we currently offer.

Thanks … and best of luck, this sounds like an interesting application.

– Cais.

Thank you for your answer.

I have one question about the “Scan folder for new images” button in Nextgen.
Can the function that that button triggers be triggered programatically?
Getting my new pictures into the correct gallery directory is no problem.

/Erik

I have now solwed the automatic update of images in a gallery.
I have written a script that I use as a cron job that runs every day five minutes after the camera takes the pictures.

The script looks like this:
#!/bin/sh

for i in find /pathtoimages/*.jpg -type f |tail -1; do
cp $i /pathtoimagestorage/$(date +%Y-%m-%d).jpg
done

sudo -u www-data wp –path=’/var/www/sitename’ ngg import_image –filename=/pathtoimagestorage/$(date +%Y-%m-%d).jpg –gallery=10
rm /pathtoimages/*.jpg

My camera stores two pictures in the directory /pathtoimages/ every day.
The script copies the first image to the directory /pathtoimagestorage/ in the format yyyy-MM-dd.jpg. I will save each picture in that directory to be able to later do an animated picture containing one year of pictures.
I then use WP-CLI to insert the picture into the correct gallery.
Last I remove all pictures saved by the camera to make sure the directory is empty the next time the camera stores new pictures.

@erikture – Very well done! Thanks for sharing this!!

– Cais.