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Python-Based Server Lets Eye-Fi Users Skip Company's Software
gollito writes "Coder Jeff Tchang has developed software written with python that allows users to download pictures from the Eye-Fi card rather than having to use the eye-fi manager software. Running the script at intervals would allow for real time updates to an online gallery." At least one user has responded to the release of this software by getting it (after a bit of tweaking) to run on Ubuntu Linux, and another says it works with BSD. I hope the people at Eye-Fi see this as a good thing, rather than reason for a knee-jerk cease-and-desist letter; when I asked about Linux support at the most recent CES, I was given a good-natured shrug and a reasonable hand-wave: approximately, "We just don't have the developer time for that when most of our users are on other platforms."
"Provide alternate content for browsers that do not support scripting" - I'm not too surprised their hardware doesn't support Linux.
No thanks.
A memory card with Wi-Fi built in and bad driver support somebody wrote a Python script for. Other than being over expensive (both in pocket and on battery) and unnecessary for most high-end camera's (since they have it already built-in or aren't in range of any wi-fi when shooting) I don't see the need for it nor do I see many uses elsewhere.
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Gotta get it changed to Yfy.
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You sound like every Indian software developer I've ever met. The word software does not require, and should not have, an indefinite article before it.
TFA talks about the company not having enough developers to support a non-Microsoft OS. Maybe they don't have much resources for anything.
I went to the company site linked in TFA and got the following message:
They didn't have the time to properly test their website and we're seeing a message from a template (that should have been removed). I've seen this kind of thing before. A company doesn't have the resources to do the job right and rushes the product out the door just to survive. It sure rings all the alarm bells for me.
I havent looked at it yet (I will) but what I'd like to see is the ability to *upload* files to the card. The application would be putting it in a digital picture frame (which would be in a different room than where the computers were) and be able to add photos to it without having to physically go get the SD card and apply sneakernet.
that the excuse for not providing the facilities is that nobody is using it on those OSes. Seems odd to me that they'd expect for a substantial number of people to buy their products without including the ability to actually use the product.
But then again, developers seem to be spoiled badly enough that they expect people to plunk down their cash even before they can use it on their preferred OS. Often times sending cease and desist letters in place of actual support.
From their website it looks like they are selling the same product at three different price points with the only differentiator being the included software features. A cross-platform solution that allows one to bypass this scheme may induce their lawyers to shit the proverbial brick and send out a reflexive C&D order to combat such a nuisance.
I am becoming gerund, destroyer of verbs.
Are they in the business of selling hardware, or software?
If they're in the business of selling hardware, they don't *need* to assign developer resources to it. Just make the specs available, someone will write Linux software. (Proof: people are already doing this, without the specs. Wht not make their life easier?)
It never ceases to amaze me that some companies think that selling your product more people is a bad thing.
that wifi router doesn't have any antennas or an ethernet cable.
Running the script at intervals would allow for real time updates to an online gallery.
Wouldn't you have to be within range of your own home network for this to work? I don't think it would work if you were on someone else's wireless would it?
I think the problem here would be "programmed feature removal"
http://www.eye.fi/cards/
There's three different cards to buy, and I have no doubt that they're all identical save for what card they claim to be, thereby limiting what features the manager software will allow the user to access.
"Most people, I think, don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?"
I hope the people at Eye-Fi see this as a good thing, rather than reason for a knee-jerk cease-and-desist letter
From looking at their 3 different models it seems that the only difference between the bottom two models is software running on the PC, so this could effectively turn a $50 card into a $60 card. Doubt they would be happy about that.
Granted.
But this thing still is cool. If you can get gps and bidirectional communications in an SD form factor and 4GB storage as well, you're well on your way to some interesting rover applications.
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He doesn't say which of the Eye-Fi cards this works with.
What they need is to allow the stupid thing to transmit RAW format files - the feature that everyone wants, but for some bizarre reason they refuse to supply, even though it could be implemented very easily!
I just built our first mini-itx system in order to stream HD video from a camcorder to a base PC (we're trying to put together a multi-camera HD recording system at a price point of about 1/8-1/4 of that it would cost for HD-SDI). Works quite nicely but more or less begged for wireless-n. If these cards streamed the file as created though...and were in the 32GB size range...and used wireless-n....and were *supported* under Linux...damn those would be huge. A tech to watch I guess..