Uploading photographs from a Google Pixel Pro

[Randolph M. Fritz]

the "official" macOS way of dealing with this would be to use the macos
"ImageCaptureCore" API, but it seems like a lot of work to go through for
something that already works with gphoto, if you can avoid the OS grabbing
the interface. There is a python wrapper for ImageCaptureCore, so I suppose
it would be possible without too much fuss.
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Randolph M. Fritz || rmfritz3 at gmail.com


On Wed, Sep 23, 2026 at 8:39 PM Randolph M. Fritz <rmfritz3 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> …and macOS, for some reason, sometimes starts a daemon called ptpcamerad,
> which grabs the camera interface. Not sure why it starts. SIP prevents me
> from disabling it.
> --
> Randolph M. Fritz || rmfritz3 at gmail.com
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 20, 2026 at 7:31 PM Randolph M. Fritz <rmfritz3 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I decided to try to make the "import" function work—and it did! These
>> were the steps I used:
>>
>>    1. Physically connect smartphone via USB cable. On the phone set the
>>    USB connection type to PTP
>>    2.  Import>Add Camera Manually. Select auto-detect.
>>    Camera was found, identified as "Google Inc Nexus/Pixel (PTP)"
>>    3. Import>Cameras>Google Inc Nexus/Pixel (PTP).
>>    A dialog appeared. *Wait*. if you have a large number of images it
>>    will take time to scan the camera. There will be no progress bar, or any
>>    indication that this is occurring. Go have a cup of tea.
>>    4. The images can then be viewed and downloaded.
>>
>> I found that querying the image metadata in the import dialog with
>> exiftool did not work; the message was “Cannot load data from <file>”with
>> ExifTool.” There is an “Open Setup Dialog” button, but it does not seem to
>> work.
>>
>> digiKam: 9.1.0
>> KDE Frameworks: 6.26.0
>> Qt: Using 6.11.0 and built against 6.11.0
>> macOS Sequoia (15.7.7)
>> Build ABI: arm64-little_endian-lp64
>> Kernel: darwin 24.6.0
>>
>> Smartphone was a Google Pixel Pro 6, updated to July 5, 2026.
>> --
>> Randolph M. Fritz || rmfritz3 at gmail.com
>>
>
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