Insert memory card and wait for the ‘ready’ notification. Wouldn’t that be easy?
Auto copy images from your digital camera
Want an easy way to auto-copy images from your memory card to your PC?
Problem
Take a picture: memory card is full. Now you have to take out the card, go to your PC, start up the PC, insert the flash-card, copy files, take out the card, shut down your PC.
Solution
With a combination of programs and a script these steps can be minimized. This can be done without looking at the screen of your MAC.
- Turn on your Mac
- Insert memory card
- Wait for a ‘ready’ notification
- Take out memory card
How?
- Make sure your Mac is connected to your picture network shares, even after reboot or wake-up. (not applicable if you want it to sync with a local directory)
- DSW application runs an Apple script based on the memory card name.
- The apple script (see screenshots below)
- copies all files from the memory card to a (network) location, not overwriting existing files.
- Ejects the memory card so you can safely remove it
- Sends a push notification to my iPhone
click on these images to zoom in
Download
- Apple script: download here (will be posted)
- Download “Do Something With“ (backup location: DSW1.2)
NOTE: If this doesn’t work for some reason, please check-out the software called “Hazel“.
NOTE: Check out this post on this subject if you don’t want to use the Automator
NOTE: Alternatively use the Chronosync software which (apparently) can do the same thing ($40)
One of the fanciest and easiest to use Media Players I have ever seen.
This is a media player with an incredible WAF*
Links
- Plex (Wikipedia)
- Plex manage your media tips
- Plex: Getting started
- Running Plex client on the AppleTV 2nd generation
- Control Plex via URLs (can be used in Homeseer)
* = Wife Acceptance Factor
Put your Mac to sleep, remotely.
Waking up your Mac is easy using Wake On LAN (for example: in Homeseer using the PHNetwork plugin). Now you want to put your Mac to sleep again. How?
First you have to connect to your Mac using a script without having to enter a password manually. Otherwise you couldn’t run it form Homeseer without having to enter a password.
1. Connect to your Mac
Non secure: Connect using SSH. Command:
putty -l <username> -pw <password> <ip_address>
Secure: using Putty: instructions
NOTE: when you edit the authorized_keys file, don’t forget the space before and after ‘ssh-rsa’.
NOTE: remember the name_of_saved_session. You have to use this in step 3.
2. Putting Mac to sleep
One solution is to execute the ‘shutdown’ command: shutdown -s now
Problem: you have to enter your admin password. When using sudo you also have to enter your admin password.
Solution: osascript -e ‘tell app “Finder” to sleep’ (tip from jordanbalagot.com)
3. Combining both
Now you can connect to your Mac and put it to sleep. How to combine both?
1- Create a file “sleepmac.txt” in the directory that contains putty.exe. (or any other directory)
2- Edit “sleepmac.txt”
3- Add: osascript -e ‘tell app “Finder” to sleep’
If you used the secure option in Step 1:
4a- Create Homeseer event: Launch Application
C:\Putty.exe -load “<name_of_saved_session>” -m C:\sleepmac.txt
If you used the non-secure option in Step 1:
4b- Create a Homeseer event: Launch Application
C:\Putty.exe -l <username> -pw <password> <ip_address> -m C:\sleepmac.txt
Other info:
- Putty FAQ
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