copy images from Gallery to computer

[kumar_a]

Hi All,

I m new to this forum. My mobile and laptop are on the same Wifi Network. I want to copy images from gallery to a folder on my laptop. Is this possible ? if yes..then what steps do i need to follow for that ?

Thanks

[symbianyucca]

Welcome to the Forum Nokia Develore discussion board, as this DiBo concentrates on development related issues, you might find more end-user problems related Dibo better suited for your query. Here's link for one: http://discussions.europe.nokia.com/

[kumar_a]

Actually i want to write some code for that...and i need some guidence in that direction. I want to know whether this thing is possible ?

[Paul.Todd]

You might find the PC Suite API does what you want
http://www.forum.nokia.com/info/sw.n...I_3.2.zip.html

There are various solutions but none of them very easy unfortunatly.

[Sorcery-ltd]

UPnP is another solution you could consider. There's already a client to do this in many Nseries phones (it's called Home media in my N95). You just need to make sure you enable UPnP on your PC. It's already built-in to Win XP onwards.

Sorcery

[kumar_a]

Thx for the reply.....i was working with PC Connectivity API.....
I think it works only with bluetooth and USB ? Does it work with wifi Network too ?

Thanks

[Paul.Todd]

I don't think so, but then again there are other issues to consider whne opening a pc to accept connections from the internet/anonymous sources.

For that you would probably want to consider using an http server on the pc and using http to send down the files by a PUT command.

[kumar_a]

Hi,

Thx for the reply. I need to create an application which on load gets the pictures from the gallery and transfer them to the remote PC and I think i need to use TCP/IP socket programing for that.
The problem that i m facing now is that what should be the path for reading those images? Should it be something like http://ip-address/......

Please help me out.

Regards

[Sorcery-ltd]

Like I said, this feature is already there on lots of Nseries phones. If you want to add it to others there are a lot of open source projects you could port.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Plug_and_Play

It seems pretty crazy to write a proprietary solution for this.

Security-wise, the idea is that you only run UPnP on your home network and rely on WiFi security for that. There is a firewall tunelling possibility but this is a big security hole.

To talk to the phone via IP you either need to hard code an IP address for the device, if it's just a demo, or you need a discovery protocol. Again, UPnP already has device and service discovery built-in.

Sorcery

[Paul.Todd]

But the problem with UPnP is that is it is very hard to get a stable solution.

I have yet to find a reliable solution that works with my media pc, laptop, and N series phones.

[kumar_a]

As Paul said its hard to get a stable solution as well as UpnP is not available in all the wifi enabled phones.
The Reason I am looking for solution like this because the data transfer rate through wifi is more as compared to bluetooth.