Got an N900 and a Mac, look here...
 

Ok, so I have a trial N900 from WOMWorld, and I've been trying to hack it to do cool things. So far I've done this:

http://doitdifferent.wordpress.com/2...-be-like-this/

And written up a how-to here:
http://doitdifferent.wordpress.com/2...0-with-iphoto/

As I say in the article:

"I’ve only got this N900 as a trial for a month. I’ve no incentive to develop this further as I’ll have it give the device back :-( . It’s a proof of concept. I’ll hand this over to the Maemo community to develop further. I’d like to see this as an app that can be installed from the repository, with a nice GUI to configure the various options. Other features that would be good to add would be:

• Choose what networks to sync on, or what type of network.
• Maybe sync over 3G only if there aren’t many new pics since last sync etc. Limit data.
• Option to sync when the camera shutter is closed.
• Software to configure the OSX side.
• More testing! What happens on failed syncs etc.
• GUI

If anyone does take this on and extend the idea, please credit my blog, or me by name – Iain Wallace."

So, if this is of interest to anyone, try it out. Let me know if you spot any mistakes in the post or it needs more info. And if anyone's interested in developing this idea further, well, feel free! Though I'd appreciate being kept up to date.

Re: Got an N900 and a Mac, look here...
 

This looks interesting!

Will it be possible to sync with a web server? I have a website hosted a 1and1.co.uk, and if it was possible to automatically upload to a directory on there, that would be of useful for me. Then the mac could pull the photo's from there.

This could be a different thing to what you have done altogether, I'm not too sure, as I'm new to the N900, and not familiar scripts or anything yet.

Re: Got an N900 and a Mac, look here...
 

Wow, very cool idea! And you're absolutely right -- all cameras should work this way (and whoever said this is just EyeFi on your blog really is missing the point).

I'd very much like to see support for Aperture in there if you or anyone else manages to keep this project going.

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m165 - Sync with a webserver would be easy enough. That's basically how it works. Read the the how-to post, I sync via a linux server that's on the web, then the mac syncs with that. I do it over SSH so I can get two way sync. If you don't have SSH access it should still be possible, but you might need to use ftp or similar and it'd not be as good a sync (limited to pushing one way).

Bingley Joe - aperture sync should be easy enough, it could probably work the same way. I don't have aperture to try it out though. If i kept developing then I could get it working using the A3 trial though.

I might continue with developing it, but depends if I end up getting my own n900 or not.

Re: Got an N900 and a Mac, look here...
 

Just remembered that my hosting isn't actually with 1and1, just my domain name! I've contacted where it is hosted to see if I have SSH enabled.

If not, how hard would it be too make it do it via FTP? I don't mind the one way sync, as i never use iPhoto, and downloading from my server is simple enough.

Re: Got an N900 and a Mac, look here...
 

Look at the how-to, basically instead of a cron job to run unison on the N900, your cron job would run a script that calls FTP to upload the pics. Rsync would be better in this case, as it won't transfer pics already uploaded.

Re: Got an N900 and a Mac, look here...
 

Thanks, I'll try having a look, I'm new to all this scripting stuff so I'm not sure how it'll go! :P

Re: Got an N900 and a Mac, look here...
 

If you can make it work with either PC, Mac, or Linux then it would be great.

This would also be handy if someone stole your N900 and start taking pictures. It will just sync automatically to the computer and we can report to police and providing evidence.

Re: Got an N900 and a Mac, look here...
 

I know that this is different thing but if someone is using picasa and doesn't know this trick:
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/send-yo...with-an-email/
And as you know picasa can also sync with picasaweb so (pc<->picasaweb<-n900.

Only thing is to do automatic send by email after picture taken.

Re: Got an N900 and a Mac, look here...
 

Excellent work and a great idea :D

Keep up the good work!

Re: Got an N900 and a Mac, look here...
 

Instead of or in addition to a cron job one could hook to various notification systems on the N900.

The idea is indeed very cool and needs just a bit of refining (I already have some ideas, time unfortunately I do not have).

Re: Got an N900 and a Mac, look here...
 

Yeah, the shutter closed system notification would work well.

But remember it's a 2-way sync, so even though the n900 has sat doing nothing all day you might have edited some pictures. So you still need to sync over cron aswell.

Linux or windows compatibility would be easy. Linux is trivial - it's just exactly like the N900 end (plus whatever you need to do to get pics wherever you organise them).

Windows supports unison, but I don't know enough about regular scheduled jobs there.

I know it needs refinement. As I say it's proof of concept. I'm also short of time, and only have the N900 a short time before I have to return it, and I've other cool things I want to try and make it do.

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Are there any other Linux users interested in getting this working again?

There are a few things in here I'd like to look at from a total OTA media sync point of view.

For instance:
-- When you're on a wifi connection, sync music, if it could do this automatically that'd be great

Re: Got an N900 and a Mac, look here...
 

"working again"? it still works.

Syncing music on a (maybe specific) wi-fi connection would be easy enough.

I might be getting my own N900, in which case I'll work toward packaging this up as an app, with the N900 and various server ends separate, so you can use whatever you want. I'm extremely short on free time for the next few months however.

Re: Got an N900 and a Mac, look here...
 

No, I mean working together on it, try and get some kind of community project up on it.

Of course it's working, I just don;t really know the ins and outs of getting it up as a project here...