#CLI/Command line tool

HomeGallery is a command line tool to init the configuration, start the web server and import the media sources. It has further commands to execute sub task to

• Create and update file index of your media directories
• Extract meta data and calculate previews
• Build the gallery database
• Extract meta data to xmp sidecar files
• Extract static gallery
• Fetch a remote HomeGallery to the local gallery
• Stream media to Google Chromecast

You can list the help of available commands and options via gallery -h. See the install section how to start the CLI in your environment.

By default it starts in the interactive mode. The run command should be used for scripting, eg. for cron jobs. Other commands can be used in advance use cases.

To run the CLI your gallery settings are configured in gallery.config.yml. It should be initialized via the run init command. See configuration section for configuration details.