Integration rather than export

[Kjetil Kjernsmo]

Hi all,

Is there anything around integration so that Digikam-managed images and 
importantly metadata can be used by other applications?

There's the built-in DLNA server, of course, but Digikam runs on my laptop, 
and that's often offline or offsite for other clients on the LAN. The collections 
and database is on a permanently connected machine in the LAN, which should 
also run the DLNA server.

Obviously, any other thing can look at the file system and use the image files 
there, but all the metadata I enter, especially subjective ratings and 
categories aren't (always) visible by looking at the files, and they are very 
important to find images.


So, for a long time, I've been thinking about using the MySQL server and 
integrate with a different DLNA server, so that DLNA clients can browse the 
images. 

In fact, I gave myself an issue in my personal github on writing a Gerbera 
script on Jan 29, 2021. It hasn't quite happened... ;-) They document it at 
https://docs.gerbera.io/en/stable/scripting.html
There's also transcode on the fly, which comes in handy, because I have only 
raw images on disk.

Has anyone else here looked in that direction? Is there anything already 
available? Would it be better to just spin off Digikam's DLNA server to run on 
a different machine?

Kind regards,

Kjetil