[GRLUG] Eye-Fi

[megadave]

Well, as a linux guy, i dont even need a picture frame. I just look at
them on my computer.

The frame idea was for some older relatives that aren't terribly
tech-friendly, that already owned a digital frame that was given to
them as a gift.

They wouldnt be all that interested in a jerry-rigged laptop sitting
in their living room. The goal was for something that would be small
and look ok. The project has long since been abandoned, but the eye-fi
came sooooo close to being the perfect solution.


On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 10:56, John Wesorick <john at wesorick.com> wrote:
> I've seen them on sale for $20 several times and thought about buying one
> just to play with and also see if I could recommend them to people. I've had
> a few people ask me about them. Since I'm in IT, I obviously know every
> facet of every technology out there. I think they solve a very basic issue.
> My wife always bugs me that I take too long to put photos on our server.
> It's not that it's hard or takes long, it's just that you have to think
> about/do it. It would be nice to do it automatically. The Pro model also
> does geo-tagging, which is kind of neat. I've never seen a camera IRL that
> does that, excluding smartphones. When I was looking at them before I think
> I decided against buying one because of the lack of support for Linux to set
> it up.
> For picture frames, do it the Linux way and roll your own. Just take an old
> laptop and gut it. Then you can do whatever you want and add features to
> your heart's content. I built my own several years ago with Damn Small
> Linux/McDPF. I wrote a photo import script on my server that
> renames/resizes/rotates images automatically and dumps them in to my
> Original Photos folder, and then the resized ones go to a DPF folder, which
> is rsynced continuously to my DPF via Samba.
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