SD card autocopy
Copying photos from the SD card of my camera is a very common task. And always the same pattern. Take the card out of the camera, put it into the sd card reader, wait for the automount popup, browse to the picture directory, select all images, cut all images, browse to my photo directory, create a new folder, name the folder, move to the folder, paste the pictures into it, wait for the finished job.
Sound boring? Sure, it is!
Now, how to make this one a little smarter? Maybe scripting some of those steps is a cool idea. So how would this work in a perfect world?
The idea
Taking the SD card out of the camera and putting it into the SD card reader does not seem to be easily scripted, that's why I focused on the other steps ;-). Okay, I'd like to put the card into the reader, just wait for all the images to be moved and then put the card back into the camera.
But how to reach this goal? Maybe you're interested in my solution...
Get the USB device unit
Plug in the usb drive and run
systemctl --all list-units
$ systemctl --all list-units
UNIT LOAD ACTIVE SUB DESCRIPTION
● boot.automount not-found inactive dead boot.automount
dev-disk-by\x2did-usb\x2dTS\x2dRDF5_SD_Transcend_000000000039\x2d0:0.device loaded active plugged SD_Transcend
dev-disk-by\x2did-usb\x2dTS\x2dRDF5_SD_Transcend_000000000039\x2d0:0\x2dpart1.device loaded active plugged SD_Transcend FIELD_CAM
dev-disk-by\x2dlabel-FIELD_CAM.device loaded active plugged SD_Transcend FIELD_CAM
dev-disk-by\x2dpartuuid-1cae7fd0\x2d01.device loaded active plugged SD_Transcend FIELD_CAM
In this example the device unit is: dev-disk-by\x2dlabel-FIELD_CAM.device
$ cat /usr/lib/systemd/system/sd.service
[Unit]
Description=Copy photos from SD card when inserted
Requires=dev-disk-by\x2dlabel-FIELD_CAM.device
After=dev-disk-by\x2dlabel-FIELD_CAM.device
[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/sd-copy
[Install]
WantedBy=dev-disk-by\x2dlabel-FIELD_CAM.device
Copy the sd-copy script from this repository and make the script executable:
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/sd-copy
Manually unmount and remove the USB device.
Now simply plug the SD card of your choice into your SD card reader and plug the card reader into the USB port.