[digiKam-users] Image Import from Android Device (MTP / PTP)

[frederic chaume]

Hi all

if it can help I'm proceeding as follow:
-automatically backup my pictures on my smartphone in a cloud (I'm using 
SFR cloud, but I suppose it should works with other)
- set-up the drive of the cloud on the PC
- use import menu "add pictures" and select your drive. Then you can 
import what you want , pictures will be marked as downloaded so will not 
be proposed again next time and you can also mark some pictures as 
"downloaded" if you don't want them

only drawbacks I found is the time before you can see pictures on your 
drive, dependant on the backup process,  it is not real time


regards
Frederic


Le 14/09/2022 à 07:35, Gilles Caulier a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> The PTP camera support under Windows requires Gphoto2 Drivers as under
> Linux, but even if Gphoto2 compiles now under Linux, there are serious
> problems with the low level USB drivers from this backend.
>
> The solution is to use the Microsoft camera WIA backend instead to
> replace Gphoto2. We have a few reports in bugzilla about this topic.
> It"s in the TODO list, but not yet implemented.
>
> https://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=CONFIRMED&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&component=Import-WIA&product=digikam&query_format=advanced
>
> Best
>
> Gilles Caulier
>
> Le mar. 13 sept. 2022 à 21:52, Martin Lux <lux.martin at posteo.de> a écrit :
>> Hi Digikam Windows Users,
>> is there a way to import images from an android device to digikam similar
>> to a digital camera / sd card on Windows 10 (protocol is PTP / MTP with a
>> Google Pixel 4a and Android 11)? I'm struggling to do it and the
>> documentation within the software is incorrect as the described options are
>> not available. I copied the images manually with the Windows File Explorer
>> from one folder to each other, but this is definitely not comfortable and
>> might cuase duplications / overwrites.
>>
>> Thanks for your help in advance!
>> Martin
>>