I don't know if this was suggested before, I haven't found it in the forums, but it would be very handy to download files from the internet directly to your PopoPlug (bypassing the local computer). A really sweet, but short lived, internet desktop service provider (site that provided a virtual desktop through your web browser with storage space) allowed users to enter the URL for a file they wanted to download directly to their account. They called it "Side Loading". In otherwords, instead of downloading a file from the internet to your local computer then uploading it to your account, you could copy/paste the URL into a dialog box when logged into your account and the file would be downloaded to the online account directly.
Downloading a file from the internet directly to a PopoPlug would be extremely useful! I can't think how many times I saw a file I wanted to download, but didn't want to do it at work or on a friend's computer. The bandwidth where I work isn't very impressive and I sometimes email myself links to files I need to download when I get home. It's iritating to have to remember to do this instead of taking care of it when I'm looking at it. This will be a very popular feature!
I'll buy a PopoPlug when this feature drops.
That's an interesting idea.
So I tried it.
I went to my.pogoplug.com and clicked on 'upload files' then put in the url of my avatar here.
http://www.pogoplugged.com/imagelib/userprofile/1657/501a4d8d579923f2-3368a270-1273e2f0762-7956536582398-w45.jpg
It then uploaded the file to my drive. No problem.
Just for fun I made it a public share and here it is served from my Pogoplug.
So you can do that to upload a file directly from the internet to your pogoplug.
Seriously? If you go to the NRCS Geospatial Data Gateway and place an order for your county & state, you will fine a list of geographic data you can download. If you select the most recent NAIP Imagery (National Agriculture Imagery Program) to download, enter your contact info, your order will be placed in a queue. You'll get an email with an FTP link. The image you order will be a MrSID file (.sid) used by GIS software. (You can download a viewer for IE from Lizard Tech.) These files usually range from several hundred MB up to 4 GB. (The images are usually at a higher resolution than what you see in Google Maps/Earth for rural areas.)
Ideally, you could copy this URL into the 'upload files' dialog box and click OK for an unattended download, bypassing your local account.
So you're saying I could initiate a large file download from work to my home PC with a PogoPlug and it wouldn't effect my bandwidth at work (besides my connection to my PogoPlug)? If yes, I'll order one today!
I don't know if trying such a large file would work. It may have to go through the Pogoplug servers and could take some time to download. You could also be stuck with an upload window open on your computer while it does so.
It might be better to set up some kind of script or wget on the pogoplug to download the files automatically.
Well, I bought a PogoPlug. I have to say, I'm a bit underwhelmed. Several features that were promised don't work. I uploaded a file from here: http://z.antisocialrap.com/20sr/20sr.rar It's 198 MB. I tried to download the file directly to my PogoPlug like you suggested, Brandon. It downloaded to the PogoPlug, but only through my local computer. I couldn't close the upload dialog box. This is a disappointment. Hopefully the development team will add this to the "wish list".
I agree, this would be an incredibly useful feature. I do a lot of processor intensive audio work and constantly download large files from clients; mostly from a DropBox or MobileMe URL. It'd be great to have the PogoPlug download these large files without tying up a browser on my main computer; allowing me to continue working.
I realize that this could probably be done somehow using SSH but my Linux-fu isn't that strong.... If you have a script to share that would be able to do this please let us know.
Re-read the post again and discovered the wget command. In the terminal (I'm on a Mac) I ssh into the pogoplug, navigated to the folder where I wanted the download to go (in this case the "Downloads" folder I created when I installed Transmission onto my Pogoplug) and issued the wget command with the url of the file needed. Worked like a charm.
This works if I'm on the same network as the pogoplug. II'm not sure how you'd do this remotely. The ability to do this using the Pogoplug web interface would be awesome.....
One last thing. I've discovered that you have to leave your terminal session window open. Closing it stops the transfer. You can resume the transfer with wget -c [URL]
cshaw340 said: One last thing. I've discovered that you have to leave your terminal session window open. Closing it stops the transfer. You can resume the transfer with wget -c [URL]
Good suggestion, but what I'm looking for is the ability to download large files to my PogoPlug device remotely. For example, logging into the PogoPlug site (from work), entering the URL for the file I want to download to my device (at home), clicking OK, then turning off my computer at work if I want to and still having the file download to my device (i.e. using the PogoPlug servers to transfer the file).
Now THAT would rock.
Boozerini said: Good suggestion, but what I'm looking for is the ability to download large files to my PogoPlug device remotely. For example, logging into the PogoPlug site (from work), entering the URL for the file I want to download to my device (at home), clicking OK, then turning off my computer at work if I want to and still having the file download to my device (i.e. using the PogoPlug servers to transfer the file). Now THAT would rock.
I agree, this would be really useful. Especially if it could be set to work with the Android/iPhone apps. That way you could set your files to download from anywhere and they'd be waiting for you when you get back. This would be a killer feature. I hate having to leave my computer on overnight when downloading large files, it seems like such a waste of electricity.
I just had a go using SSH to download too, dissappointed to hear it won't continue downloading if you have to close your session. Just looked at the wget parameters and there doesn't seem to be a way around this from what I can see. Maybe someone with more Linux experience might be able to help. I think the wget version that comes on the Pogoplug is not as advanced.
Guy's try this...
wget -bqc http://path.com/url.iso
Where,
=> -b : Go to background immediately after startup. If no output file is specified via the -o, output is redirected to wget-log.
=> -q : Turn off Wget?s output aka save disk space.
=> -c : Resume broken download i.e. continue getting a partially-downloaded file. This is useful when you want to finish up a download started by a previous instance of Wget, or by another program.
OR:
nohup wget http://domain.com/dvd.iso &
exit
It is possible to overwhelm the "loveable" plug especially where gig's are involved. There might be a better way to haul the gig's.
To get the gig's on the plug, I avoid using the plug. It lacks the muscle. It is a great and inexpensive delivery tool.
I use either a linux box or windows for muscle. To get the functionality mentioned with "wget" I use one of two tools. One is Cygwin and the other is FileZilla.
Cygwin is available from cygwin.com or from redHat.com. I prefer the redHat process (search for cygwin and then pick the choice with redhat.com).
FileZilla is available from sourceForge.
FileZilla out of the box offers secure transport, if desired. It is much like "putty" on steroids. It is also updated on a regular basis which seems to be missing with putty.
Cygwin gives me a linux appearance in windows without all of the ugly mess that might be associated with a linux box to get wget.
FileZilla is easy to use to get stuff from any place that you have a login whether the LAN, WAN, or ?.
My motivation to look for other tools was, "I got tired of waiting for the plug to handle the volume." The pogoplug just does not seem to be designed to "collect!"
I use cygwin or zilla to move the gig's to a CF or SDHC card, flash drive or hard disk depending on the target device. Of course this will not work for devices that lack card support or usb support. Fortunately, the plug offers USB support and works well with a powered hub.
I can use windows' "at" command or cygwin's "cron" command to schedule what I want done and when I want it done and to whom I want to target. I can also rsync when I choose (there was a thread about this somewhere on pogoplugged.com).
May sound a little messy. It is very flexible. I have mostly complete control over the process and the outcome.
I suppose I could probably do this at the command line on the pogoplug. If I did I would be stressing, needlessly, the pogoplug which, in my opinion, has a much more important job in delivering video, pictures, music, etc. not collecting.
Oh, and the piece I almost forgot. If I choose to download the file to a laptop or desktop, and want the file to go to one of the plugs on my farm, I send it to a folder that has been made pogoplug "Active Copy" aware. This process then delivers those particular files to the Pogoplug, over the LAN, after they arrive through a scheduled wget or a zilla transfer. This also gives me an audit trail should something go "splat" in the middle because in wget's case I can redirect the output to a log file that can be examined at some later time.
Granted, it is not directly to the pogoplug; however, I sense that my process will move the several gig's I end up hauling around the internet much faster than doing it directly on-and-to the plug and I think I have it mostly unattended (except when it breaks - fortunately that has been infrequent).
Pogoplug Farming(tm) is Fun!
Let me get this right.
One cannot computer-initiate a transfer between one of the PogoPlug's attached hard drives up to the Pogo-Cloud from either a local or remote computer, then close the browser and turn the computer side off because it will stop at that point even though the transfer is strictly between the hd on the Plug and the Pogo-Cloud? The PogoPlug is so dumb it can't even direct a simple transfer? Nor does Pogo sport a provision to let the cloud side software take over? Is this correct?
Main reason I got the plug and I can see now why it's been such a disaster these past 24 hours that I've had the thing. Thought the software was buggy or I was being an idiot (not a rare occurrence). Turns out it's not an option, nor is it mentioned in anything I've read by PogoPlug. I'm amazed, especially since the thing's been around for well over a year now. Nex
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