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authorChristophe Besson <cbesson@gmail.com>2026-10-09 18:23:52 +0200
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feat: back up the phone's photos to a group, once a day on Wi-FiHEADmain
The Android application sends the photos taken on the phone to one folder of one group chosen by the member (docs/MESHBAY_DESIGN.md §9.12). The phone lists MediaStore, keeps a ledger of what was sent and hands each photo's bytes to the page by an opaque token on the packaged origin; the page decides when a run is due and uploads through the existing path, one photo at a time under a slot. - Once a day from the last finished run, on an unmetered network only; "Back up now" asks first on mobile data. Leaving Wi-Fi stops after the file in flight. - Photos already on the phone are sent by default, newest first, under <folder>/YYYY/MM; edits are sent beside the original as -edited-<date>. - Additive by construction: nothing is ever deleted, renamed or replaced on the node, and a photo deleted on the node is not sent again. - A confirmation names the group, owner, members, folder and size when the destination or starting point changes; a lasting refusal (disk full, folder read-only or gone, no longer a member) is said once and retried a day later. - No ACCESS_MEDIA_LOCATION, so the platform redacts photo locations. - A dataSync foreground service keeps a run going with the screen off. HEIC/HEIF photos are sent but not shown in Photos yet (§15.2). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -62,6 +62,14 @@ connector could decrypt, and the fetch slows to a four-hour net. The page turns
it on in Settings and registers the phone with the hub; muting and "disable
all" are decided on the hub, which then creates nothing (§11.3).
+Photo backup (`photos/`, §9.12): MediaStore is listed natively, a ledger of
+what was sent is kept per account, group and folder, and each photo's bytes are
+handed to the page at `/photosync/<token>` on the packaged origin — never a
+URI. The page decides when a run is due and sends; a `dataSync` foreground
+service (`BackupService`) keeps it going with the screen off. No
+`ACCESS_MEDIA_LOCATION`, so the platform redacts a photo's location from what
+is read.
+
Not built yet: phone-specific behaviour (back button, network handover,
keeping a download alive with the screen off), updates through a store.