Standalone Eye-Fi Server hack one-ups Eye-Fi Manager

For those of you who love the concept of the Eye-Fi, but detest being forced to talk to its servers and send pictures precisely how it wants you to, take heart. A standalone Eye-Fi server has now been presented to the general public (coded in Python, if you're so inclined to know), and we have to admit, the functionality here is second to none. By tapping into this code, users can instruct their Eye-Fi cards to upload photos to different online galleries by running around the Eye-Fi Manager middleware. We know you're interested in giving this a go yourself, so feel free to slip on the Coke Bottle Glasses™ and hit that read link.

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[(Unverified) Posted Mar 17th 2009 9:28AM]

And there's me thinking Python was getting more popular...

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 17th 2009 11:01AM]

Agreed about the Python thing

I'm pretty sure its used and is being developed quite actively last time I checked.
"no, we're not joking"... I kinda was hoping that you were.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 17th 2009 9:29AM]

oh come on, you can practically just read it like it's english (python, that is)

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 17th 2009 9:29AM]

Also, Sandalone?

[BigE4284 Posted Mar 17th 2009 9:43AM]

Sandalone is the new Standalone

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 17th 2009 9:48AM]

I don't think Murph realises you can get smooth wood quicker with two people.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 17th 2009 10:41AM]

I like to sand with others.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 17th 2009 9:42AM]

"Sandalone Eye-Fi Server" sounds like a brand name...unless I read the article wrong :P

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 17th 2009 9:45AM]

Um, Python's cool. Why the dig??

[Art Posted Mar 17th 2009 9:51AM]

Engadget obviously just did their research on Bash.org:

someone speak python here?
HHHHHSSSSSHSSS
SSSSS
the programming language
Wot?

[Art Posted Mar 17th 2009 9:53AM]

Awesome. I didn't know the Engadget comments system cuts out everything in > < brackets, so now my last comment makes very little sense.

:-/

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 17th 2009 10:55AM]

i think harry potter speaks python.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 17th 2009 9:47AM]

maybe they belonged to the house of slytherin....

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 17th 2009 10:16AM]

As witty as that was, the nerd factor on that comment just shot through the roof.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 17th 2009 9:55AM]

I'd like to know what engadget would have written this is in besides python. Python is extremely easy to write robust and bug free code in, has a massive base of libraries to take advantage of and is more then fast enough to handle one user's worth of uploaded photos. Do we really need 3-tier java middleware to transfer a few pictures? If it's good enough for google it's good enough for me

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 17th 2009 10:28AM]

I know little to nothing about python, and I was pretty sure it was fairly simple to read and program and all that. So I'm glad to see more educated people to back me up on that.

So, in regards to Darren's comment on python... what?

[ahemphill Posted Mar 17th 2009 10:39AM]

Of course, I came here to say the same thing. Python FTW.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 17th 2009 10:57AM]

Umm like the other commenters have said Python is more popular than you think. Google mostly use Python for most of their stuff, in fact even the Google App Engine use Python.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 17th 2009 11:24AM]

Few people understand Python? Huh? Maybe no more programming language critiques....

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 17th 2009 11:27AM]

Google and Youtube use Python, 'nuff said. You better do your homework Murph.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 17th 2009 11:36AM]

Engadget should stick to reviewing toys, not programming languages.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 17th 2009 11:53AM]

Will then enable RAW uploads.

[plaka999 Posted Mar 17th 2009 12:58PM]

yah, what's with the python dig? It's an enormously popular language, many people "understand" python. "We're not joking" should've read "We don't know what in the hell we're talking about when it comes to programming languages." - sheesh, stick to what you know.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 17th 2009 3:42PM]

Ok, so, I'm confused. I write code proficiently in x86ASM, C, C++, Haskell and Python, and I can't imagine a more easy to understand language than Python. Even its most ardent critics seldom say that its difficult to read. Is someone perhaps frustrated by their inability to follow the learn-to-program examples?

[dcoaster Posted Mar 17th 2009 4:01PM]

Now if only they can get video support for first gen cards, then I'll be satisfied...

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 17th 2009 8:06PM]

So where's the instructions?

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 17th 2009 6:26PM]

If I may interject here, to play devils advocate.

I sneered at the same comment.

To the geekier, script kiddies, and tech whizzes who may venture onto engadget, running a python (merely running it), is not a complicated task. I am not a python programmer, but I am sure I could decipher it, in fact I am certain of it. It's a fast growing language, it's a given.

I could see that comment, making it's way onto a photography blog, where the less inept people might sneer, at the use of a non-widgetized self-enclosed application, which requires an actual scripting language to be installed in order to run said script. Not to mention the fact that most of these people wouldn't know there way around a command line enough to understand they would need to execute said script in such a manner.

I digress, the comment was lame, python is heavily used in 3D animation, and as others have mentioned in web apps, so it is/was a really unfounded and unnecessary comment.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 18th 2009 11:58AM]

Come on Engadget. Python is ALL OVER Ubuntu. It's being used ALOT in the FOSS world and it very easy to get up to speed on. Python is not a strange language to use at all for something like this. Just because it isn't .Net or Cocoa doesn't mean it's crap.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 18th 2009 8:45PM]

Python shows as #6 above C# here:
http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html