[GRLUG] Eye-Fi

[Michael Mol]

Someone was at Casey's last week with a hand-built digital picture
frame. Inside, it was just an old laptop. Outside, though, it was
nicely done with a beautifully-finished oak frame. I rather liked it.
Not like the cheap plastic thing I found at Radio Shack.

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 11:01 AM, megadave <megadave at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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