eyefi_flickr_auto_upload

(This is more like tutorial or an example rather than a project - in fact all Eye-Fi related stuff is handled by eyefiserver2)

Upload photos to Flickr albums using X2 Eye-Fi card and Raspberry Pi 3.

Features

• Replacement for soon-to-be-discontinued Eye-Fi Center auto-upload
• Gets photos from the card, uploads them to Flickr
• Sorts photos in folders in RasPi and in albums by date in Flickr using exif data

Requirements

• eyefiserver2 by dgrant: https://github.com/dgrant/eyefiserver2
• flickraw: https://github.com/hanklords/flickraw
• exifr: https://github.com/remvee/exifr
• Lockfile https://rubygems.org/gems/lockfile
• Raspberry Pi 3

Step-by-step, how to use:

(this might be missing some steps, I try to make better instructons for Eye-Fi Center stuff later)

###1. These instructions require you to first configure your eye-fi card using Eye-Fi Center. Remove your card from your Eye-Fi account, but first enable its Wifi option (Direct mode network). You will need the Wifi network name and the password. You also need its MAC address and upload key.

On Mac OS, you can find the MAC address in Eye-Fi xml file in your Library folder.

###2. Using your Raspberry Pi 3: Start with apt-get update

###3. Download and configure eyefiserver2, I'm putting all my project files in folder ~/eyefi

mkdir eyefi
cd eyefi
git clone https://github.com/dgrant/eyefiserver2
cd eyefiserver2

edit your etc/eyefiserver2.conf you need to change following:

• mac_0
• upload_key_0
• upload_uid
• upload_gid
• upload_dir

For this example, I'm using upload_dir:/home/pi/Pictures/%%Y-%%m-%%d

upload_uid and upload_gid are both 1000

Edit your preferred log file path in etc/init.d/eyefiserver

Copy the files:

sudo cp etc/eyefiserver2.conf /etc
sudo cp etc/init.d/eyefiserver /etc/init.d/
sudo cp usr/local/bin/eyefiserver.py /usr/local/bin/

###4. Set up Wifi

• edit your /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf:

   network={
      ssid="Eye-Fi Card ffffff"
      psk="PASSWORD"
  }

###5. Ruby installs

sudo gem install flickraw
sudo gem install exifr
sudo gem install lockfile

###6. In ~/eyefi:

• git clone https://github.com/HelsinkiHacklab/eyefi_flickr_auto_upload
• Make your own locals.rb file using locals_default.rb template file

###7. Add in your crontab

@reboot /etc/init.d/eyefiserver start
OR @reboot /etc/init.d/eyefiserver start /etc/eyefiserver.conf /home/pi/eyefilog.txt
*/5 * * * * ruby /home/pi/eyefi/eyefi_flickr_auto_upload/flickr_upload.rb