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eyefiserver.conf(5) File formats and conventions eyefiserver.conf(5)

NAME

eyefiserver.conf - Settings file for eyefiserver

DESCRIPTION

/etc/eyefiserver.conf is organised in sections whose name are enclosed in brackets.

The global section is named [EyeFiServer]. The names of the other optional sections are the MAC address of the Eye-Fi card. The mac address must be in lower case and without dashes. For example, if your card has a MAC address 00-18-56-50-EF-F9, the section should be named [00185650eff9].

All keys described bellow are searched first in the section specific to the Eye-Fi card, then, if not found, it is search in the global [EyeFiServer] section. This means you can set up a global default value, then override it for a few specific cards.

You don't need card specific section at all if you have only one Eye-Fi card.

There is only one compulsory key, the upload_key. See bellow.

KEYS

This defines the verbosity of the server. Valid values are DEBUG, INFO, WARNING, ERROR and FATAL.

Default value is DEBUG.

This is the one exception to section behaviour as this key is only allowed in the [EyeFiServer] global section.

To use this script you need to have your Eye-Fi upload key.

You can find it after configuring the card, which you can currently on do only on windows or mac.

Windows: see C:\Documents and Settings\<User>\Application Data\Eye-Fi\Settings.xml

Mac: see ~/Applications Data/Eye-Fi/Settings.xml

This is the location where the files from the Eye-Fi card will be put.

Starting ~ will be replaced by user home directory.

%X will be replaced by a datetime fragment according to python time.strftime format: For exemple, on January 1st 2013, running as www-data, upload_dir=~/html/eyefi/%Y/%Y%m%d will put files in /var/www/html/eyefi/2013/20130101/. See http://docs.python.org/library/time.html#time.strftime.

Default value is ~/eyefi.

Name of a command to be run after each file download.

Example on Windows:

complete_execute=C:\Windows\system32\mspaint.exe

Example on Linux:

complete_execute=/usr/bin/display

This parameter executes the specified command every few seconds while file is being received.

Parameters of the called program:

$1: the full file path of the temporary TAR file. Thumbnail can be extracted from the partial file.

$2: final tar size in bytes

$3: speed in bps

This can be On or Off.

upload_dir key might contain variable parts such as %Y%m%d, that are replaced by the datetime values.

If use_date_from_file is On, the reference date will be the one the picture was taken rather than the transfer date.

Default is Off.

This is only usefull is you activated use_date_from_file. This can be On or Off.

EyeFi puts local timestamp into its tarfile instead UTC, so extracted files get a wrong modification time.

Default is On, so that this behaviour is corrected by default. You should not need to touch that value.

This can be On or Off.

When turned Off, it disables file integrity checks. This used to be necessary when downloading large files, because the algorithm was so slow that timeout occurred. This should no longer be the case.

Default value is On.

EXAMPLES

Minimal example



      [EyeFiServer]


      upload_key=774e46f14990456a9ab7b4d22f1da138
Multicard example 



      [EyeFiServer]


      loglevel=INFO


      [00185650efe9]


      upload_key=774e46f14990456a9ab7b4d22f1da138


      upload_dir=/var/www/html/eyefi/%Y/card1/%Y%m%d


      [00185650efea]


      upload_key=11a3e229084349bc25d97e29393ced1d


      upload_dir=/var/www/html/eyefi/%Y/card2/%Y%m%d
Progress meter, using a progress_execute hook: 



      #!/bin/sh


      # That file is an example for progress_execute target


      # It requires X server access, run eyefiserver as a regular user


      FILENAME=$1


      TARGETSIZE=$2


      SPEED=$3


      notify-send -u low "Receiving $FILENAME" "Speed: $SPEED bps"

AUTHORS

eyefiserver was written by Jeffrey Tchang.

This manual page was written by Jean-Michel Nirgal Vourgère.

SEE ALSO

eyefiserver(1)

25 October 2016 eyefiserver 2.4+dfsg-3