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Python-Based Server Lets Eye-Fi Users Skip Company's Software

Posted by timothy on from the suddenly-more-attractive dept.

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."

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  1. has developed a software by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    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.

    1. Re:has developed a software by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

      In a place that recognizes that there's a difference between his use of the word software and your use of the word software that makes using the article wrong in one case and right in the other.

    2. Re:has developed a software by Red+Flayer · · Score: 2, Informative

      Hey, speakinh of twats, why not read the OP more closely?

      He specified the use of an indefinite article. "Die" is a definite article. Even in German, one would not use "Eine software".

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  2. C&D in 3, 2, 1 ... by wiredlogic · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

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    1. Re:C&D in 3, 2, 1 ... by cortesoft · · Score: 3, Informative

      It looks like they are slightly different in the hardware department as well. For one, there are 2 different sizes (2G and 4G), and the high end one looks like it has access information for 10,000 hot spots built in (although I am doubtful about how useful those would be). It actually doesn't appear that there is any difference in the desktop software, just on the card and for external services (the geotagging thing on the high end one).

      Of course, they probably will still sue, because you could probably compete with a third party geotagging service or something.

  3. Re:What is eye-fi and why would I care? by corsec67 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Personally, I'd much rather cameras have GPS instead of Wi-Fi, so that they can automatically fill in the EXIF location data for the photos.

    That would only work if your camera was on for long periods of time, and had a constant view of the sky. Plus I get the best reception when I leave my GPS on the dashboard of the vehicle I am in, and leaving a camera powered on the dashboard of a firetruck seems like a very bad idea, while my GPS can handle that no problems. Also, having a separate GPS lets me use it for multiple cameras, since I might not be able to get a GPS built into every kind of camera I want with me.

    When I am taking pictures that I want to have the GPS data in the EXIF, I have a GPS running all day that I keep with me, and then at night I correlate the times from the pictures with the locations from the GPS using gpscorrelate. It takes in a GPX and a list of the pictures, so I can do all of the pictures I took all day and correlate them very quickly, even if they were taken with different cameras.

    There is a compact camera with GPS, the Nikon P6000, but it has to lock on to the satellites when you turn it on, which can take a while, especially if reception is weak.

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  4. ceace and desist by FunkyELF · · Score: 2, Informative

    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.

  5. Re:What is eye-fi and why would I care? by Deanalator · · Score: 2, Informative

    iphones put GPS data in the exif data of any picture you take.