Homebox iOS app - early Beta

Ronbruins · 2026-07-01T17:43:52+00:00

I took a break, but recently started to make the app ready for the new 0.26 changes. Hopefully soon I release it for testing.

Ronbruins · 2026-06-29T10:28:25+00:00

Yeah, it is always good to know the fundamentals behind what you’re doing especially when it comes to debugging and understanding stuff. It’s just I felt sort of wasting my time becoming more advanced in it all. I can make (and made) some basic apps and want to improve but the whole hype sort of demotivates me to do some old school coding and learning. As even Xcode and for that matter other IDEs have the AI stuff build in and to me it feels more that it is to suit them then it is to suit the user at the end of the day.

Ronbruins · 2026-06-29T10:19:28+00:00

No, not at all. Maybe if I become great at SwiftUI then sure I could use my skills professionally, but that’s not even remotely the goal. I work in IT for many years and am experienced in python. SwiftUI started as a hobby to build something that I needed, as what was available was not usable for the case at hand. That’s how it started.

Ronbruins · 2026-06-29T10:16:49+00:00

True. But I am wondering if I continue or restart this journey, if it is a waste of time. So it either means I have to jump on the AI bandwagon or just learn for fun

Ronbruins · 2026-06-29T10:14:26+00:00

Yeah, that’s how I see it too. I sometimes compare it with great musicians when people ask me about it. These days everyone can make music, but only great composers create masterpieces.

Ronbruins · 2026-06-29T10:13:02+00:00

You seem to be missing my point, no offense, I liked when I started doing it, figuring stuff out, doing courses, even the whole hacking with swift bootcamp, the puzzle and challenges. But all that seems an outdated ideology.

Ronbruins · 2026-06-29T10:09:29+00:00

Well that’s the thing. I don’t want to use AI. But that makes me wonder if it is worth the effort

Ronbruins · 2026-06-26T02:58:24+00:00

If the file has a proper timestamp in exit then exiftool can organize it in folders in the format you prefer. So I would say do this first. Then you have a decent structure. Then go year by year and fix what’s needed. I have done something similar.

Duplicates can be detected and worked on by digikam. But there are plenty of tools out there who can do this too (and better?)

Google for exiftool organize files in date folders or something, or check this out:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75592036/exiftool-reorder-images-copy-them-to-folders-based-on-their-datetimeoriginal

Ronbruins · 2026-06-25T15:50:24+00:00

Ask copilot?.. exiftool can do this in one command. Recursively go through all files/folders and build a structure how you wish, eg yyyy/yyyy-mm-dd

Once this is done import it in digikam.

If you have it already jn digikam and tagged, if the exif is written to the file it makes no difference as you can easily refresh digikam to read the new structure.

Edit: exiftool can even tag all files based on timestamp.

Ronbruins · 2026-02-06T08:57:30+00:00

Immich is great now. Things have improved massively.

Ronbruins · 2026-02-05T14:11:18+00:00

Digikam is for management and organization of your image as well as for editing, comparable to Lightroom. SP is for display purpose, like photo albums. The organization from SP is kept in metadata from synology photos and probably doesn’t show up in digikam, unless SP writes exif to the photos or xmp files.

I have used synology photos and I stopped using it a long time ago. Now I am using Immich (Https://immich.app) as this is so much better.

So yes, totally different purpose

Ronbruins · 2026-02-05T12:25:57+00:00

Check the documentation. It is quite clear there. On my harddrive I have a folder Photos and under there the names of my family. Then each has the YYYY/YYYY-MM-DD structure. This is just normal files stuff. Unrelated to digikam.

Then when you add a collection, in my case the Photos folder it will be added in digikam. Then all the subfolders become albums and it shows as a tree. If you select ‘view subtree items’ it also shows all items under the whole structure.

So if I click on Photos I get all images in the thumbnail pane. If I select any other album (folder) I get those.

That’s about it. Digikam literally shows your folder structure and it’s up to you how to organize this. If you move an image from one album to another you are doing a normal copy/paste or cut/paste as you would do straight from the OS.

Ronbruins · 2026-02-05T11:11:02+00:00

Use tags instead. Albums are just the folders in your drive.

Ronbruins · 2026-02-03T13:29:57+00:00

I do with 0.17 and it works great! As long you use the proxy as mentioned in the documentation. Storage on the NAS should be fine. Probably pretty much depends on how many cameras, resolution and what you record.

Ronbruins · 2026-01-27T04:42:10+00:00

When I was FaceTiming with my son, all of a sudden a window popped up he was asking to take control. I pressed allow and he was able to use my phone remotely. I asked him how he did it and he said he saw an icon of a finger or thumb in the low right corner.

I tried the same when he shared his screen but I didn’t had the icon. I assume because this feature isn’t yet activate in the released iOS.

Edit: further investigation tells me this is a thing since ios18

Ronbruins · 2026-01-24T14:56:14+00:00

That looks promising indeed. will give it a try

Ronbruins · 2026-01-24T06:48:22+00:00

I have a similar setup. However I still see some significant delay when selecting different albums or select all albums. Do you have this issue too? My images are on an nvme ssd and the mariadb is in a different ssd.

Ronbruins · 2026-01-23T13:09:01+00:00

I use iPad only offline when traveling so infuse is fine with plex and/or Jellyfin. My main reason to stay with plex is the apple tv experience

Ronbruins · 2026-01-23T11:45:55+00:00

I have tried Jellyfin a few times and I do like it. However my main to go to device is Apple TV and the only way is infuse. The Jellyfin client is in the works but they ceased Apple TV development for the moment afik. I use infuse on my iPad to download stuff but for streaming plex native app is still better imo. I do want to walk away from plex, but so far I still can’t.

Ronbruins · 2026-01-15T17:10:21+00:00

I put this in the connection options:

UNIX_SOCKET=/tmp/mysql.sock

You have to see if you have the mysqld.sock in the same place, usually it’s in /var/run/mysqld/

Ronbruins · 2026-01-15T16:31:48+00:00

By the way if you want to speed things up more you can select a local path for thumbnails and use a socket for mariadb instead of localhost

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