bob prohaska <bp@www.zefox.net> wrote:

Axel Berger <Spam@berger-odenthal.de> wrote:

bob prohaska wrote:

iPhones don't do file sharing over Bluetooth, so that's not an option. >>> Aye, there's the rub....8-)

I don't know about Iphones, but every Android I know can do FTP file
server over WLAN and be addressed from the desktop.

At some point I'll try a cable.

I do the above because cable does not work any more. I used to be able
to plug the phone in and see a standard external disk drive. No more.
Everything now is some proprietary junk I don't want.

You've raised a good point. Both the iPhone and the Pi are on the
same LAN, I don't have to use BlueTooth. An SFTP link would be even
easier, apart from the iPhone's lack of a keyboard. I fixated on
BlueTooth solely because my old phone used it and my only Lightning
cable lives in a different room, where it's used for charging. Moving
the cable will cause me to forget to charge the phone 8-)

It turns out that gtkpod is able, in a rather awkward way, to allow
moving photos from an iPhone to a Pi. If one starts gtkpod and then
plugs in the iPhone using a lightning-usb cable gtkpod will create
a desktop icon representing the iPhone. Applications can open image
or video files via the icon. Once opened, the file can be "saved as"
to the Pi's filesystem. Simply dragging the file icons won't work,
something gets screwed up and they can't be opened once moved. If
they are opened before moving and saved by the opening program to
the Pi's filesystem then the file integrity is preserved.

The sequence is
start gtkpod
plug in the iphone
load iPod(s) using down arrow icon (3rd row from top, 2nd from left)
A warning dialog box saying iPod directory structure not found
click create directory structure
Select the mount point and model from the drop-down menus

A long warning appears, but can be dismissed, and two iPhone
icons appear just below the trash icon. They can be traversed
like any storage device, but files can't be dragged, they have
to be opened and saved to the Pi.

The iPhone isn't remembered in the list of possible devices,
although the iPod seems to be. So, one has to go through this
drill from the beginning on every attempt.

Certainly a nuisance, but doable.

Thanks for reading, I was surprised by the discovery.

bob prohaska

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