Hi,
I've been using jpilot with a variety of Palms for a few years. At first
using a serial connection but lately using USB. I find that using Jpilot
with USB is a bit troublesome. I'm using JPilot on FreeBSD 6.1 STABLE.
Jpilot is v 0.99.8 from Ports (port patchlevel 3). Pilotlink is v 0.11.8
from ports (patchlevel 4 revision 1) I realize that these are probably
older version of the software and can upgrade to retest and fix.
The problem isn't that this doesn't work. It's that it's a little to
much like a video game for me. To sync the Treo via USB I have to:
Start the Hotsync on the Treo.
Wait approximately 5 secs, no less than 3, no more than 10 (this
is what makes it like a video game)
Start the Hotsync on the jpilot.
After this I will get a good hotsync 8 times out of 10 Woot!
I've noticed that I can also hotsync via pilot-link. It's pretty much
the same process. What I'd like to do is have a script manage the
hotsync process and automatically run that script as the response to the
USB event that gets generated when the hotsync button is pressed.
I'd do this with pilot-link but:
It doesn't put the files in the same directory as jpilot.
I'm not sure if it uses the same file names.
I'm not sure if there would be any concurrancy issues if jpilot
happened to be running at the time.
Will this include changes that I've made to my databases in jpilot
rather than on the palm?
Ideally there would be a way to run jpilot in sync mode as an event when
the user presses the trigger: e.g.
jpilot --sync --device=/dev/<usbttyNN>
Is there any way to accomplish that?
Thanks
Chris
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