On 14/05/18 20:42, mm0fmf wrote:
> On 14/05/2018 20:23, RobH wrote:
>> I have built a motion sensor detector using this code: from the
>> dronebotworkshop on youtube. While it works very well for me, I now want
>> to upload the pictures to my NAS server.
>> I googled this and found this line of code:
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>> curl -T /home/pi/filename.jpg
>> ftp://ftp-host-machine//yourwebsite/folder/filename.jpg --user
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>> Now when I run the python script:
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>>   from picamera import PiCamera
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>> curl -T /home/pi/filename.jpg ftp://ftp-ipaddressof NAS
>> server/mnt/folder/filename.jpg --user
>> # Wait 25 seconds and repeat
>> time.sleep(25)
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>> It returns Invalid syntax at the ftp://ftp- etc
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>>   I can get as far as a login box from my Ubuntu desktop with this:
>> ftp://server ip address/mnt/Folder/subfolder, but it fails completely on
>> the PiZero with invalid synatx at ftp
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> curl is not a Python command but an external program. You either need to
> use pycurl (a la import pycurl) or you want to get your Python script to
> execute the curl program using os.system(....) or similar.
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> Much more simple would be to use the ftp library included in the
> standard Python library and do the ftp yourself. YMMV.
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Thanks, but when the python script runs without the inserted curl line,
it takes pictures of whatever is sensed and writes the actual file to
the sdcard.

I read somewhere that writing to the Pizero sdcard so many times, as it
would, is not a could idea as it could be corrupted.

So I looked for a way to upload the jpg file to my server.

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