Version: 1.4.0 OS: Linux Digikam is excellent for sharing a remote collection between computers, with photos hosted on a central server (and using a common MySQL database). The only drawback of such setup is that scanning the whole collection from a remote computer is very slow over network (also it sometimes crashes on windows clients). This issue could be fixed by providing a command-line argument for scanning/refreshing the collection. - the local scan would be way faster from the server itselfs - it would be possible to planify a cron for automatically scanning the collection. That way, clients woudln't have to scan/refresh collection themselves. The collection would be always up-to-date! That would be awesome! How hard would it be to implement? Reproducible: Didn't try
> How hard would it be to implement? a) Server provides an X.org connection: Pretty straightforward b) Server does not run X.org, but provides X/QtGui libraries to link: Would need a separate main()/executable using only QCoreApplication. Would need to check if any backend stuff accesses QtGui (QPixmaps etc.). Should work though. c) Only QtCore available: Major restructuring needed. Really, no.
similar request here Bug 278344 - more scripting from command-line still valid in 2.8.0
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As users start to leverage digiKam's new ability to use remote databases, I can see the need for this growing exponentially. Running a headless version of digiKam on a NAS would eliminate unnecessary network traffic. From the cmd line I'd like to be able to import images from a specified directory, reindex all metadata, generate thumbnails, etc. Log files generated would denote what succeeded/failed. Commands could be specified directly while another argument would specify a path to a configuration file.
any chance that it could be realized after the DK 6 release?
I would be really interested as well.
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Has someone tried https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-digikam Is this an option to run it on a server and doing database updates?
Hi, I never tried Docker solution yet with digiKam. Best regards Gilles Caulier
I would be really interested as well. I created this web interface for dk: https://gitlab.com/AlessandroLucchet/digikamwebviewer And refresh collection via CLI would be really useful.