iLiad simple syncing on Linux

[nagyv]

Hi!

The attached script simply copies one folder (and its subfolders) to another place (probably your iliad). It doesn't overwrite already existing files.

Then it also downloads the contents of the outbox folder, without overwriting anything.

How to use it?

• Copy the file to a directory under your path, and get rid of the .txt extension (it's only for uploading)
• Chmod it to be executable
• Change the variables at the beginning of the file
• Once the iLiad is mounted, run the file

Todo
The script has one major drawback, that it is not run automatically. I've tried to run it from udev, but seemingly at that time it is not yet mounted, only the block device is created.
If someone would find out how to delay the running of the script, or which other service should be used. Please, share your info with me as well!
Anyway, the udev rule is (put in under /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rule):

SUBSYSTEM=="block", SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{product}=="ER0100 eReader                   ", ATTRS{manufacturer}=="iRex TechnologiesBV   ", RUN+="/home/nagyv/bin/iliadSync.sh & disown"

Of course, don't forget to change the path to the script.

[Adam B.]

Would it not be easier to setup rsync and cron (included in busybox)? I'm just curious, as I've never messed with udev.

[nagyv]

I was thinking about it, but I don't know how rsync treats the file<->directory conversions. + I didn't wanted to install anything on my iLiad, so the desktop has to mount it to run the software (moreover, for the moment I can't connect via wifi, just with USB)

otherwise I prefer the "run on mounting" approach, and the reason I made this script is that I thought it would work

anyway, as I am just a 2 day old, non-programmer iLiad owner, I am kind of satisfied

[kusmi]

I just installed Samba on my Linux box and now use the iLiad-integrated method for exchanging documents over WiFi with my Linux box.

So my "workflow" looks like this:

1. I mount the linux Samba share on my Laptop and put my documents in there (I even added a shortcut to my printer-panel, so I can directly "print-to-my-linux-box", this works quite well on my Mac-Laptop)
2. Whenever I'm ready, I turn on my iLiad and press the iDS button to sync with my linux server. All new documents get transfered to my iLiad. All documents in my iliad-outbox get synced to my Linux box

I also created a small script, which is running on my Linux-box to automatically merge the scribbles I did on my PDF and produce annotated PDFs (thanks to iLiadScribbleMerger)

The script for doing this "scribble merging" is attached. This file is just added to the cron-job to execute every 1 minute...

>crontab -l
*/1 * * * * /home/michi/iLiadConvert/convertScribble.rb > /home/michi/iLiadConvert/output.log 2>&1