Any web geniuses out there? Updating image automatically

[Stub Mandrel]

I want to be able to send image updates to my website, say meteor trace plots or all-sky camera images.

Is there a simple app I can use that will 'monitor' an image for changes, or a folder for a new image, and upload that to my website via FTP?

Alternatively is there a Joomla plugin that can look for my PC (I don't have a static IP) and automatically download the latest image?

[Marci]

WinSCP and it’s synchronise feature should do the job...

https://winscp.net/eng/index.php

https://winscp.net/eng/docs/task_synchronize

 

Re: Joomla plugin - overcomplicates things - you’d have to configure an s/ftp server or http server on your local machine sharing the folder you’d want to sync, set up a port-forward on your router, buy a dynamic domain subscription, then use a cronjob on the server to get the file on a time schedule. 

More sensible alternative would be to use WebDav if your hosting provider offers it (eg: cPanel shared hosting sometimes provides webdav folders if whoever runs the whm end of the hosting has enabled it for channel customers)... then you can just mount the folder on the webserver as tho it were a local network share on your PC, mapped to a drive letter, then save directly to it. Both these two methods bring inherent security risks alongside them to your local PC.

Other method would be dropbox.com or similar and let the dropbox client handle syncing the folder to your online dropbox account... then hook up to the image via a dropbox share URL in your html on your website. Just keep the filename constant for the latest image.

Realistically, the Dropbox method is probably the easiest to get up n’ running with, followed by WinSCP method.

[Stub Mandrel]

I'll look at WinSCP

Is there a way of doing it in Filezilla?

[Marci]

Don’t think so... the specific bit of WinSCP is https://winscp.net/eng/docs/task_keep_up_to_date

[Stub Mandrel]

6 minutes ago, Marci said:

Don’t think so... the specific bit of WinSCP is https://winscp.net/eng/docs/task_keep_up_to_date

LOL! The first thing it did is import my existing sites from Filezilla...