Let start with the basic, Eye-fi can’t use a FTP, on a local private network, or any other method due to requirement of the files being send to their server first and then being send to that FTP. This was a fail in my attempt to get this working.

So, using the following website, and some brain power:

• Eyesfierver2 host on github
• Eyefiserver2 start page
• Gonzo Technology page (actual a similar project) – I would love to comment on his page without signing up to say how useful it has been

Requirements

• One Raspberry PI functioning as a access point
• One Windows Machine
• One EyeFi Card
• A USB card reader

Setting Up The EyeFi Card

The following are to be done on a Windows 7 Machine

• Insert the Eyefi card
• Install the Eyefi application off the Eyefi card
• Register the card, (and create an account if need be)
• Set the card up to talk to your Raspberry PI access point
• Set the card to save to somewhere on your computer (don’t set up on internet, and it doesn’t matter where you set it to on your computer as the PI setting will override)
• This was located here (where user_name is changed with your username) – noting that this location might change for different versions

C:\Users\User_Name\AppData\Roaming\Eye-Fi\Settings.xml

• You need the Card Mac Address and UploadKey out of this folder
• Eject the card and stick it in your camera

Setting Up The Raspberry PI

So once the above is done, the following needs to be done on the PI

• Download, and unzip the Eyefiserver2 from Github
• In the Eyefiserver2 directory you just unzipped, open the file /etc/eyefiserver.conf
• Insert into this the MacAddress and UploadKey (one per card)
• Edit the location where you want to save the file to
• Save and close this file
• Now I ended up using sudo cp, copying the files list below (from the eyefiserver directory) to the corresponding (copied from the github start page)

    .
    |-- etc
    |   |-- eyefiserver.conf
    |   `-- init.d
    |       `-- eyefiserver
    |-- usr
    |   `-- local
    |       `-- bin
    |           `-- eyefiserver.py
    `-- var
        `-- log
            `-- eyefiserver.log
e.g.
sudo cp /home/pi/etc/eyefiserver.conf /etc/

sudo cp /home/pi/etc/init.d/eyefiserver.conf /etc/init.d/
etc

• Create a blank file called /var/log/eyefiserver.log
• Now we need to make /usr/local/bin/eyefiserver.py executable so

sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/eyefiserver.py

sudo chmod a+x /etc/init.d/eyefiserver – just in case (I did this first so was unable to test just the py mode)

• To make this run on statup the following command needs to be run in terminal (I have no clue what it does)

sudo update-rc.d eyefisever 98 02

• Now restart the PI, and snap away

Possible issue – if you have enabled pass through on your PI to your wider network (i.e. Windows machine) then the photos might end up on the Windows PC instead of the PI, there no logic to where it save to (as far as I can see).