Start DSM Media Re-Indexing from PHP App

[Deleted member 673]

I use a home-brew PHP application to manage media files, including the movement of .mkv and .m4v video files within DSM's indexed 'video' folder. The PHP apps run on the same server as the media files, under Web Station / Apache.

Unfortunately, files moved using PHP 'rename' do not trigger automatic DSM media re-indexing. I have not tried PHP 'copy', but the files are generally much too large to copy (vs move) in a reasonable amount of time.

Is there a way to trigger DSM media re-indexing from a PHP app? I'd like to eliminate the need to remember doing this as a manual step via the DSM Web Console.

Thanks for any suggestions, Ron

 

[Deleted member 673]

The following PHP code appears to work as needed: exec('/usr/syno/bin/synoindex -R video');

Ron