[mythtv-users] Sending photos/videos from android to myth

[Martin Moores]

On 13 January 2013 20:39, Ronald Frazier <ron at ronfrazier.net> wrote:

> On android devices, when you are looking at a photo or a video (and
> probably a lot of other stuff too) in an app like Gallery, there is
> usually an icon in the menu bar that looks sort of like a
> connect-the-dots that allows you to send the current photo/video to
> another device/service. For instance, you can send the photo you are
> looking at to a facebook/google+ post, to another bluetooth device, to
> your Picassa gallery, etc. Well, I was trying to figure out some way I
> could hack things up so that I could also send these from my android
> deice to mythtv to display on the TV. The idea being, say I've got a
> few people over, and I want to show them a video from my phone. If I
> could send it to the TV, then everyone doesn't need to crowd around a
> tiny screen, or take turns watching.
>
> So I'm looking for any suggestions on how to do this. I'm pretty sure
> there's no native way to do this, right? Is anyone aware of any linux
> apps meant to deal with this? If so, I could just launch it as an
> external command from a custom menu item and then send it. I tried
> searching for it, but couldn't find anything. It might help if I
> actually knew what the proper name for this android feature is, but I
> don't. Since android can send over bluetooth, perhaps there's a linux
> app that is made for this sort of bluetooth thing? Though I'd prefer
> wifi so I don't have to buy and configure a bluetooth adapter on my
> frontends.
>
> So short of that, the next best thing I can think of would be to hack
> it up a bit. I could use a program line AndSMB or AndFTP to just send
> the file via a file transfer to a preconfigured folder and then using
> the photos or videos sections of myth to view it. The downside to that
> you then have to manually launch it, which requires rescanning the
> library (at least in video...not sure about photo). I had thought
> about configuring something to monitor the filesystem and then
> autolaunch it when a new file is detected. I see there is a linux
> package called incron which can handle this sort of stuff nicely. I
> figure I could use incron to run a script with connects to myth via
> the network control port and then launches it. That's easy enough for
> videos, but I can't seem to see a way to do that for photos.
>
> So anyone have any ideas how to go about this? The cleaner the better,
> but if ugly hacks are necessary, I'll take what I can get. Worst case
> I figure maybe use the above idea for video and then find some app
> that can convert a still photo (or several of them) into an mpg
> slideshow.
>
> --
> Ron Frazier
>

You could use Dropbox and symlink a directory into you image/video path for
myth into the Dropbox folder, installed on Linux.

Then, install Dropbox on your phone also, which then appears in the list of
share options you mention, choose the folder you want it to go to and it
will be there on myth as soon as it syncs, which is instant in my
experience.

Martin
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