[digiKam-users] Importing from smart phones

[huskylogic]

I found DigiKam as an alternative to Windows Photo Gallery.  One thing I
can't seem to figure out is how you import from a mobile device? When I
click Import, it doesn't find my phone, and the SD card and USB storage
devices option are not clickable. Only Camera.  

How do you set Digikam up to import from a smartphone?




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[Gilles Caulier-4]

Hi,

If you use Windows, there is no code to handle camera device using Windows API.

In digiKam, we use libgphoto2 for this task, and this code run only under Linux and MacOS.

I know that libgphoto2 can compile under Windows, but i as i know, libgphoto2 team don't care about this OS.

Best

Gilles Caulier

Le sam. 5 janv. 2019 à 09:40, huskylogic <[hidden email]> a écrit :

I found DigiKam as an alternative to Windows Photo Gallery.  One thing I
can't seem to figure out is how you import from a mobile device? When I
click Import, it doesn't find my phone, and the SD card and USB storage
devices option are not clickable. Only Camera. 

How do you set Digikam up to import from a smartphone?




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[Dennis Powless]

In that case you’re better off using a cloud service, such as dropbox. This way you can transfer files from phone to dropbox then to your hard drive then just do the upload to digikam.

D

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On Jan 5, 2019, at 4:37 AM, Gilles Caulier <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi,

If you use Windows, there is no code to handle camera device using Windows API.

In digiKam, we use libgphoto2 for this task, and this code run only under Linux and MacOS.

I know that libgphoto2 can compile under Windows, but i as i know, libgphoto2 team don't care about this OS.

Best

Gilles Caulier

Le sam. 5 janv. 2019 à 09:40, huskylogic <[hidden email]> a écrit :

I found DigiKam as an alternative to Windows Photo Gallery.  One thing I
can't seem to figure out is how you import from a mobile device? When I
click Import, it doesn't find my phone, and the SD card and USB storage
devices option are not clickable. Only Camera. 

How do you set Digikam up to import from a smartphone?




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[AndriusWild]

I don't think it will work over MTP (USB cable) on Windows but if your phone has a removable storage e.g. microSD card digiKam will recognize it. That is how I import from my DSLR, GoPro, etc.

Also if your phone has Android OS you could use something like this:

https://syncthing.net/

To sync images between your devices.

I personally use OneDrive for that but it is not open source.

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.

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From: huskylogic <[hidden email]>

Date: 2019-01-04 1:17 PM (GMT-07:00)

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Subject: [digiKam-users] Importing from smart phones

I found DigiKam as an alternative to Windows Photo Gallery.  One thing I
can't seem to figure out is how you import from a mobile device? When I
click Import, it doesn't find my phone, and the SD card and USB storage
devices option are not clickable. Only Camera. 

How do you set Digikam up to import from a smartphone?




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Le 05/01/2019 à 13:01, Dennis Powless a écrit :
> In that case you’re better off using a cloud service, such as dropbox.
> This way you can transfer files from phone to dropbox then to your hard
> drive then just do the upload to digikam.
>

can't you do this just with explorer?

jdd

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