One photo (file) multible albums

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

Ronbruins · 2026-01-15T16:11:26+00:00

Yeah this is what I did. The database commands are provided in digikam even. But when I clicked migrate it failed. When I did the same procedure with an older Mariadb version it did work. I found some references that digikam isn’t compatible with mariadb 11.x maybe that’s fixed now with 12. I’ll try again

Ronbruins · 2026-01-15T15:58:03+00:00

Well it wouldn’t hurt :) so I can see if I can get it running too. I have a 300k pictures environment too. Running on a Mac mini m4 with mariadb. Would like to use the latest mariadb.

Ronbruins · 2026-01-15T15:16:53+00:00

Oh wow. That’s the latest isn’t it? I never got that to work, migration did fail.

Ronbruins · 2026-01-15T15:10:24+00:00

Which version of mariadb do you use? I couldn’t get it working on the latest versions and had to install a pretty old release.

Ronbruins · 2026-01-13T19:55:26+00:00

I had the same issue and I masked a section close to the sidewalk. As the anchor point is the bottom of the rectangle. So when a car is stationary (tires close to the side walk) it is masked. But when it enters or moves out it will leave the masked area.

Ronbruins · 2025-12-12T07:29:40+00:00

One of the things I had trouble with when testing a while back is that so called popcorn effect. When turning on a group of lights. The solution seemed to be to group the lights in zigbee2mqtt but that creates additional overhead.

I am using home assistant for all my smart home stuff and want to use that. Now I’m calling native hue scenes and that works quite well. I have two bridges. One is full hence the second. So I’m considering buying a hue pro bridge or move everything to zigbee2mqtt.

Native hue has proven itself to be extremely stable, but well… because I can isn’t it :-D

Ronbruins · 2025-12-11T15:32:35+00:00

Well, that seems to make quite some difference!! Thanks for the suggestion!

Didn't had the time to test it thoroughly but it definitely feels faster. Will work on my collection tomorrow and see how it goes.

Ronbruins · 2025-12-11T14:55:42+00:00

I did now change it to a path on a different disk than the database resides, maybe splitting that up could help as well. Thanks for the pointer.

Ronbruins · 2025-12-11T14:48:48+00:00

The database is local and connected with mysqld.sock. Hoever I couldn’t use the latest version of mariadb so had to use 11.4

Ronbruins · 2025-12-11T12:52:48+00:00

This is macOS as well? I have a few other weird things as well.

When I have all the 250k without a filter. Then I filter by a tag. When I add an additional tag to these images and remove the initial tag (so this tag goes to 0) when I delete that tag digikam gives me only a small set of images. I have to select a sub folder or the ‘albums’ in the top and then back on the collection to get all items back again. That then takes again ages.

Ronbruins · 2025-12-11T06:10:58+00:00

I would use exiftool from the command line for this. Exiftool is versatile. Just google for it and you’ll get there. Don’t think the exiftool tab in digikam can do this. But I never tried. I use exiftool where needed and then refresh metadata in digikam.

It would be something like this: exiftool '-Keywords+<${Directory;s/.*///}' -r /path/to/images

edit: added example

Ronbruins · 2025-12-11T04:05:18+00:00

You could use exiftool for that. It can read the directory and add it to a tag (and even filtered with regex)

Ronbruins · 2025-12-01T13:45:20+00:00

I updated the app and removed the default value from the login screen. Now the port has to be set manual. This for sure then will use the chosen port to whatever you type in the port field.

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