How to trigger a rescan?

[jdaviescoates]

@msbt thanks! I guess I could've tried that before asking! But at least now there is this thread if anyone else isn't sure.

Just did it and it's doing its thing...

@staff perhaps add "open up a web-terminal window from the app and paste the command in there" to the docs?

[nebulon]

@jdaviescoates such a button would be nice, however it is basically impossible to figure out what your Cloudron dashboard domain is from the docs perspective to craft such a url

[msbt]

@nebulon I think he just wants the web-terminal part added, so people know where to paste that line

[jdaviescoates]

@nebulon I'm confused. I haven't said anything about a button!

I'm just suggesting that you improve the navidrome docs at https://docs.cloudron.io/apps/navidrome/#cli to make it clearer how to trigger a scan, i.e.

To trigger a scan open up the web terminal for your Navidrome app and paste this command

gosu cloudron:cloudron /app/code/navidrome -c /app/data/config.toml scan -f

[nebulon]

@jdaviescoates ah of course, I've added a line for that now in the docs.

[jdaviescoates]

@nebulon thanks. Seems like you need to keep the browser web terminal window open until the process finishes too? I guess perhaps add something about that too?

[vansens]

@nebulon I have a pretty huge library, rescan takes a day or so. Therefore I would love to be able to do the rescan from a terminal (using "screen" so I can detach and reattach)
Is it possible?

[nebulon]

The app package does not contain screen so one option would be to ssh into the server and use screen there (apt install screen if not installed, that should be fine). You can then docker exec -ti <appid or containerid> /bin/bash in the screen session and trigger the rescan.

[joseph]

In the past, I have used nohup for this. Something like:

nohup rescan.cmd > /app/data/rescan.log 2>&1 &

[vansens]

Thank you @nebulon this worked perfectly!