From 11dc16df6b99f9bdad450248fd9ae7c2bc69b8ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: SinTan1729 <sayantan.santra689@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2021 19:33:50 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] improved photoprism auto indexing

---
 PhotoPrismAutoIndex | 24 ++++--------------------
 photoprism-index    |  4 ++++
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
 create mode 100755 photoprism-index

diff --git a/PhotoPrismAutoIndex b/PhotoPrismAutoIndex
index df6dd10..43bf935 100755
--- a/PhotoPrismAutoIndex
+++ b/PhotoPrismAutoIndex
@@ -1,23 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
-# If started as root, then re-start as user "gavenkoa":
-if [ "$(id -u)" -eq 0 ]; then
-	    exec sudo -H -u <user> $0 "$@"
-fi
+# To be used as a cron job
 
-function notify-send2() {
-    #Detect the name of the display in use
-    local display=":$(ls /tmp/.X11-unix/* | sed 's#/tmp/.X11-unix/X##' | head -n 1)"
-
-    #Detect the user using such display
-    local user=$(who | grep '('$display')' | awk '{print $1}' | head -n 1)
-
-    #Detect the id of the user
-    local uid=$(id -u $user)
-
-    sudo -u $user DISPLAY=$display DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/$uid/bus notify-send -a rclone -h string:desktop-entry:alacritty "$@"
-}
-
-notify-send2 "PhotoPrism autoindex" "Indexing started..."
-sudo /usr/bin/docker exec -it photoprism_photoprism_1 /photoprism/bin/photoprism index
-notify-send2 "PhotoPrism autoindex" "Indexing finished..."
+echo `date` "| Updating index..." | tee -a logfile
+<location-of-photoprism-index-script>
+echo `date` "| Done!" | tee -a logfile
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/photoprism-index b/photoprism-index
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..b3e68f6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/photoprism-index
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+cd <photoprism-folder-location>
+docker-compose exec -T photoprism photoprism index