Send images from RaspberryPI to Google Drive

After having shown a simple way on how to create a “birdwatching station” using a RaspberryPi  (see  this post, in italian) i am now presenting you how to send images to Google Drive.

What you need:

  • a Google account
  • gdrive tool, download it from this address and run it at least one time
  • download loop_analisi_new.sh  from here or from GitHub and save it in the same directory containing loop_analisi.sh

At this point you have to:

  • edit file loop_analisi_new.sh and set the correct value for: GDRIVEPATH, GDRIVECONF, GDRIVECONT, PORTASSH, UTENTESSH, SERVERSSH
  • in file /etc/rc.local replace loop_analisi.sh with loop_analisi_new.sh
  • reboot you system

The job is now finished!

As you can see looking at the code of loop_analisi_new.sh the new script will attempt to get info about Google Drive storage and if it fails it will fallback to a standard sftp upload to the server configured in the first part of the script.

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