Thread: software to sync 'wirelessly' and automatically

This is exactly what I plan to do - and therefore it will be written into my new mediabox software (see earlier posts). Basically, you tell the mediabox the machine name of the pc that keeps your mp3's on and the UNC path to it e.g. "Pentium3-750" is the machine name and "\\pentium3-750\e\my music\" is the path. The software is then set to do a number of things. By pinging the machine it can determine if there is a connection. Then it can examine the mp3's on each machine and determine any new ones. The software is programmable to remove old mp3's and generate playlists of new ones. You can set it to do this whenever you start up, at periodic times or at the press of a button.

I don't have a wireless link yet (planning on one to complete the setup - guess I'll have to get a long cat5 cable until then!) but I presume that the cards automatically connect when in range - if this is not correct, let me know and I'll try and come up with another idea. I'm also assuming that you can just ping an ip address over a wireless lan in the same way as you can ping over a traditional lan setup.

Cheers - I'll post when the software is done, but it won't be for a while yet!

Andrew

Huh... your software sounds like it will be pretty good. I'd definately be interested in checking it out when you're done.

And to answer your questions - yes, the wireless stuff establish a connection when in range and yes, you can ping another machine just like you would with a wired LAN.

I'm not sure if robocopy works on non-NT systems, but you might want to give it a shot. I removed all ID3 tags from my MP3s, so I wanted to sync my carputer up with my home system. I ran robocopy and it synced up the two machines perfectly. It deleted ones I had deleted and replaced files which were changed. Have a little program that constantly scans for your network and when it finds it, run robocopy.

I posted it here:
directory sync

Gutter:

Do you know of such a program that will scan your network and when it does find a certain IP, runs a specific program?

Big bump for you guys, I'm trying to do the same thing, but with a Ethernet cable to my car.

Originally posted by schrodos
Gutter:

Do you know of such a program that will scan your network and when it does find a certain IP, runs a specific program?

I just wrote one in VB It isn't stand alone yet as it will be part of my flash/vb frontend that is in development at the moment.

At the moment you enter an ip address or machine name, a time interval to check (it can be on startup or after a timed delay of anything from 1 second to 24 hours). If the ping is successful then it will run a program. I'm currently working on the ability to synch files - shouldn't be long until this is working properly (read: it was working but not on mp3's in a large directory structure so I am rewriting it), but until then I will make the program available within the next few days as an alpha release with just the ability to start a program.

Cheers

Andrew

Let us all know when you get done, sounds very promising.

Right - try the Beta sync software I just wrote, just to show it can be done in VB in not a lot of time! The software checks for the connection via a tcp ip ping. The actual syncing of files hasn't been done yet (read: it's still in beta so I didn't include it). It allows you to run a program when the connection is made. Have a play around and let me know how you get on. All comments can be e-mailed to me on Andrew[nospam]@foggysoft.com (simply remove the [NOSPAM]). Bare in mind that this is still beta. The final software will be included in my mp3 car software, Mediabox.

Check out
http://www.foggysoft.com/mediabox/Msync-install.exe

Cheers

Andrew

P.S. If you run another copy of the app while it is already running, it instantly attempts to sync, bypassing the delay