[LinuxUsers] f/oss + eye-fi

[Chris Thomas]

I was looking at this SD card 6-7 months ago when I went over seas on vacation. I saw that it was configured to upload to Flickr, Smugmug, and other photo sites. I don't want to upload my photos to one of thoes sites. I wanted to upload it to my box at home. I didn't see a SCP or FTP option. What happens if I created my own web services api for my photos? I didn't see an option to use a non pre defined web service. Because of all of this, I decided not to buy the eye-fi.

Chris

On Nov 6, 2008, at 9:52 PM, "Roger E. Rustad, Jr" <roger.rustad at gmail.com> wrote:

Yesterday I bought the eye-fi SD card for my camera

www.eye.fi

It works great.  I had it up and running in like 3 minutes, and it saves 
a lot of time uploading the tons of pictures that I take all the time at 
various customer locations.

Also of possible interest to some, it supports geotagging (via Skyhook 
Wireless http://www.eye.fi/services/geotagging/) and Wayport access 
points if you pay a little extra each year.

Seeing how well it worked on Windows, I started googling for various 
f/oss tools that work with it and found the following

http://sr71.net/projects/eyefi/

Some of the things this tool (apparently) does (haven't tried it yet):

    * Scan for wireless networks
    * Add, remove and test wireless networks (WPA-PSK with ASCII key 
and unsecured for now)
    * Reboot the card
    * List configured networks on the card
    * Fetch the card's unique key and MAC address

Here is some cool config stuff you can do (not f/oss related, but 
interesting nonetheless if you're interesting in tweaking it)

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1177111

And here's a blog on getting the eye-fi working on Linux

http://dave-hansen.blogspot.com
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