[PLUG] SD cards that enable wifi

John Jason Jordan johnxj at comcast.net
Mon Mar 10 19:43:31 UTC 2014


On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 11:23:28 -0700
Tyrell Jentink <tyrell at jentink.net> dijo:

>Many years ago, a friend of mine had one... I don't remember it's make
>or model at all. We found that the software to configure it was kind of
>finicky, but once configured, it seemed to work alright. A few notes:
>It was primarily a storage card, with the added feature of being able
>to wirelessly sync pictures to a running file server; It didn't run
>any kind of server on it's own.  In other words, no ability to access
>files on the card remotely. Rather, one sets up a Samba share, and
>whenever the card sees the registered WiFi network, it dumps itself
>into that samba share. This functionally may not be what you expect.
>Just remember, the camera had no ability to present menus from the
>card... the WiFi is pretty much a dumb device designed to

Thanks for the information. 

In the cold light of day my brain is now functioning sufficiently to
make me aware of a problem that will likely kill the whole idea. That
is, if you put a foreign card in the machine it will immediately
recognize that it is not the right card and will offer to format it. If
you agree and let it format the card, that will wipe out whatever
wireless software was on it. If you do not let it format the card the
machine will refuse to use the card and operate as if there was no
card at all. 

The machine formats the card to FAT32, but I assume it also puts some
key files on it as well so that the machine will know it is the right
card. The only way this might work is if I had a wireless SD card where
the wireless software was not accessible to the root filesystem. 



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