Camera storing to network

[derektrimblitz]

Hi all,

I'm looking for a low price camera (not video) that can store images directly onto a Windows network wirelessly.

We take images of work carried out in our factory. Then I'd like the storage path to be our factory server via WIFI.

Anyone know of a product out there?

thanks

[LuS1fer]

A lot of compacts have wi-fi transfer but they generally work through clunky apps that you have to fire up. My two compacts are reasonably expensive but I have used the apps about twice.

It is vastly quicker to just take the camera card out, stick it into a USB adapto, plug it in and download it onto the computer direct.

[RizzoTheRat]

Would a cheapish phone rather than a dedicated camera be an option? I use Dropbox to sync my phone camera photos to my PC, I wouldn't be surprised if there are apps that let you sync directly without going via the cloud.

You used to be able to get WiFi SD cards to allow non wifi cameras to upload via wifi, not sure if they're still a thing though

[ARHarh]

I would use a mobile phone and install immich https://immich.app/.

This will automatically upload the photos to a drive on your network. It takes a bit of installing and setting up, but it just works once up and running. It gives you a lot of other things as well, some of which may be no use but i assume albums and stuff would be useful.

[Tony1963]

On the back of the reply above, if you need higher quality/specific types of photograph that can’t be taken with a smartphone, maybe:

My Canon R3 can be set up with the Camera Connect app so that when the app is launched, all images from the camera memory card are transferred to my iPhone via Bluetooth or WiFi. If that immich app mentioned above allows it, perhaps easy transfers from the phone photo library to immich would be a solution?

[ARHarh]

Immich can be set automatically import from a library where ever that is, so if your pictures are uploaded to drive somewhere it will check that space every so often and update the library. It will then do its stuff on the photo, face recognition, location some clever AI stuff for the search engine.