Add ability to disable inotify

[Tooa]

Hi 👋,

the inotify mechanism does not fire in all cases e.g. for NFS shares (compare issue) or SFTP uploads (see this issue). Since in paperless-ng the consumer is started with

command=python3 manage.py document_consumer

in supervisord.conf, there is no way to pass the -no-inotifyflag at runtime any more. There is an environment variable for --loop-time though.

I would like to disable inotify and use a loop time based mechanism instead.

[jonaswinkler]

This is already in paperless-ng. Edit: Note that some of the configuration options have changed. Especially regarding OCR.

https://paperless-ng.readthedocs.io/en/latest/configuration.html#software-tweaks

See CONSUMER_POLLING.

I believe that's what you're looking for?

I should probably describe that a little better in the documentation. If set to a value n greater than 0, inotify is disabled and the directory is polled every n seconds.

[Tooa]

You are right. I should have done better research. The variable PAPERLESS_CONSUMER_POLLING is exactly what I was looking for.

[zawnk]

Sorry for commenting on a closed issue, but I had the exactly the same issue and looked for 30 mins for a solution and was almost done opening my own issue :) Please add this somewhere in the docs.

In the paperless docs under point 4 this is specifically mentioned in a warning box. If I search the paperless-ng docs for inotify I don't find anything. Thanks!