[PLUG] SD card with wifi

[John Jason Jordan]

On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 09:35:49 -0700 (PDT)
Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> dijo:

>On Thu, 23 Oct 2014, John Jason Jordan wrote:
>
>> I am thinking of buying an SD card (original, standard size) with
>> wifi, probably the Toshiba Flashair:

>From a quick read of the Toshiba flashair web page it appears that files
>are stored on it by a digital camera (perhaps some other device) and
>wirelessly transferred to another device via an access point.
>
>Just because I'm curious, do you have another use in mind that cannot be
>as easily accomplished with your current equipment?

I use a CPAP machine that stores daily data on an SD card. To view the
data every day I have to schlep the card from the machine to the
laptop, read the data, then try to remember to put the card back into
the machine. I've lost count of how many times I have forgotten the
last step. If the card is not in the machine when the machine is
running the data for that time period is lost. The machine is really
stupid about that. 

If I can just access the card by wifi I can copy the data to a folder
on my hard drive every day. I could probably do this with a cron job,
but I don't know much about cron, except that I looked at it once and
it was overwhelmingly complex and powerful, so I'll leave that last
step until I actually get a card where I can access the files fom
Linux. 

It doesn't have to be the Toshiba Flashair; if someone is using another
brand with Linux, I'm all ears.