add photos Just Like Eye-Fi?

ayoungblood

Joined: 2011-06-12
Posts: 3

Posted: Mon, 2011-07-11 18:59

Hi gang,

The Eye-Fi card and system allows you to add images directly to a G2 gallery from the card (well, not really. The pictures goes from the card to the Eye-fi servers and it puts them in the G2 gallery). As you know a new gallery is made automatically for each day images are sent. everything from that one day is sent to that days gallery.

This works great but I'd like to move away from the Eye-Fi card and to a Wifi transmitter. Is there a way to get the same thing to happen automatically with FTP or something else?

Thanks,
Alan

nivekiam

Joined: 2002-12-10
Posts: 16504

Posted: Mon, 2011-07-11 19:54

I was under the impression that the eye-fi stuff actually worked because of a plugin in G2 they added and a client (software) on your computer and that they didn't actually upload your photos to their servers.

With G2, I think the only way to get something similar is to break out your inner geek. Here's how I'd envision something like that working (as I've thought about it before in the past)

First, I'd have the wifi transmitter set to transfer files to a specific directory on my workstation. Then I'd setup a script to run ever 5, 10, what ever minutes that would FTP (preferably SFTP) the files to a specific directory on the server.

The at the server, I'd set something like this up:
http://gallery.menalto.com/node/81010#comment-284733

And no, I haven't done any of that in practice. Just thought about it (a lot) as I haven't had a spare $1,000 laying around to dump into the WAAAAAAAY over priced wifi transmitter for my Canon....
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ayoungblood

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Posted: Mon, 2011-07-11 20:42

If that's true, it's all installed stock on all sides because when I set it I just did a stock G2 gallery install (it was set-up specifically for the eye-fi only). During set up of the Eye-Fi card it just asks where you want to share the pictures and I just told it my gallery 2 install and gave it a username/password to the site and it just works.

I have to believe it's going to from the eye-fi server to the G2 Gallery rather than the Eye-fi server sending to my desktop machine and software there sending it to the G2 Gallery because the computer the card is set to send to isn't even turned on most of the time and it never misses sending to the G2 Gallery.

Alan

nivekiam

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Posted: Mon, 2011-07-11 22:25

It doesn't really matter how the eye-fi thing works.

You're wanting the camera to work via wifi and unless your camera's wifi doo-hickey can connect directly to an FTP (preferably SFTP) site then I can only think that the only way for it to work is do what I've described above. Even if the camera can still connect directly to SFTP / FTP, you'll still need to figure out a way to have the server run a process to import the photos and one way would be to use the method in the link I provided above.

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ayoungblood Joined: 2011-06-12 Posts: 3	Posted: Mon, 2011-07-11 18:59
	Hi gang, The Eye-Fi card and system allows you to add images directly to a G2 gallery from the card (well, not really. The pictures goes from the card to the Eye-fi servers and it puts them in the G2 gallery). As you know a new gallery is made automatically for each day images are sent. everything from that one day is sent to that days gallery. This works great but I'd like to move away from the Eye-Fi card and to a Wifi transmitter. Is there a way to get the same thing to happen automatically with FTP or something else? Thanks, Alan
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nivekiam Joined: 2002-12-10 Posts: 16504	Posted: Mon, 2011-07-11 19:54
	I was under the impression that the eye-fi stuff actually worked because of a plugin in G2 they added and a client (software) on your computer and that they didn't actually upload your photos to their servers. With G2, I think the only way to get something similar is to break out your inner geek. Here's how I'd envision something like that working (as I've thought about it before in the past) First, I'd have the wifi transmitter set to transfer files to a specific directory on my workstation. Then I'd setup a script to run ever 5, 10, what ever minutes that would FTP (preferably SFTP) the files to a specific directory on the server. The at the server, I'd set something like this up: http://gallery.menalto.com/node/81010#comment-284733 And no, I haven't done any of that in practice. Just thought about it (a lot) as I haven't had a spare $1,000 laying around to dump into the WAAAAAAAY over priced wifi transmitter for my Canon.... ____________________________________________ Like Gallery? Like the support? Donate now!

ayoungblood Joined: 2011-06-12 Posts: 3	Posted: Mon, 2011-07-11 20:42
	If that's true, it's all installed stock on all sides because when I set it I just did a stock G2 gallery install (it was set-up specifically for the eye-fi only). During set up of the Eye-Fi card it just asks where you want to share the pictures and I just told it my gallery 2 install and gave it a username/password to the site and it just works. I have to believe it's going to from the eye-fi server to the G2 Gallery rather than the Eye-fi server sending to my desktop machine and software there sending it to the G2 Gallery because the computer the card is set to send to isn't even turned on most of the time and it never misses sending to the G2 Gallery. Alan

nivekiam Joined: 2002-12-10 Posts: 16504	Posted: Mon, 2011-07-11 22:25
	It doesn't really matter how the eye-fi thing works. You're wanting the camera to work via wifi and unless your camera's wifi doo-hickey can connect directly to an FTP (preferably SFTP) site then I can only think that the only way for it to work is do what I've described above. Even if the camera can still connect directly to SFTP / FTP, you'll still need to figure out a way to have the server run a process to import the photos and one way would be to use the method in the link I provided above. ____________________________________________ Like Gallery? Like the support? Donate now!

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