New Working GUI Utility to Synchronize over Wi-Fi!

[francisois]

Update (07/19/2007) wiSync 1.0 Officially Launched:
wiSync 1.0 was launched yesterday, with a full GUI implementation as promised, and a host of enhancements and customizability! Now includes a native iPhone app to manage remote synchronization directly from your iPhone!

Official Launch Site (http://modmyifone.com/wisync)
Public Download Mirror (http://code.google.com/p/iphone-isync/)

http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/4163/wisyncwindowup5.png

Update (07/12/2007) Final Beta Released:

Fantastic news! The final beta version of iSync has been released. This release is guaranteed to work on all macs. The method by which the app calls the GUI has had a major overhaul and this means that the app will now "just work" for everyone. No need to set it to run in terminal or anything, and no more problems involving text not appearing in the text fields.

The best news, however, is that this is the final version of iSync that uses a GUI maker, we have a new c++ coder on board, godshadow. The next release will have its own Cocoa GUI, everything will run from within the GUI so no more annoying terminal windows, and you will only have to enter a password once.

More importantly, though, is that we are now in active development of wifi calendar and contacts synchronization, and this makes itunes synchronization that much closer to mass availability. Additionally, the new app will enable 'true' automatic sync, any time you make a change to the sync dir, your iPod/iPhone will be updated, and vice versa. Also, the new app will have an iTunes-like interface for simplicity, and when iTunes support is enabled, you will be able to see your sync dir and your playlists within the app.

And for those of you who are windows users, you can rejoice, because we will finally have windows support in the next 2 weeks. Those of you who use linux, support for your OS will come even sooner than that!

Bear with us though, but the app will be out of beta by then. Obviously because of trademark issues, we need to change the name of the app to something less provocative. We haven't decided what to call it yet, but we'll come up with something

Download iSync Here (http://www.ifrancis.net)

http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/5315/screenzq5.jpg

[francisois]

Version 0.2b Released. Find it on the googlecode page.

[francisois]

Sorry I didn't post this earlier. You need to enable Remote Login in your Mac Sharing preferences for this to work.

[francisois]

New version (0.3b) out. I suggest everyone use the supplied uninstaller (Toggle) to do a complete uninstall and fresh install with the new version. This release improves battery life!

http://code.google.com/p/iphone-isync/

[siantslil23]

is it possible to do with Windows?

[francisois]

siantslil23:

The difficulty in creating a tool like this for Windows lies in 3 issues:

1. Windows does not have built-in ssh server technology
2. Windows cannot, without at least some difficulty, run the shell scripts necessary to synchronize (eg rsync)
3. If I were able to get around those 2 issues, I still would not be able to come up with a GUI for it. If anyone is interested in porting my code to a Windows interface they can find the shell source code on my googlecode page:

http://code.google.com/p/iphone-isync/downloads/list

[francisois]

New version released with an installer, see initial post :)

[murilo]

Hi Francisois

this app does not work here. can you help me?
I follow all the steps... and... in the final... the conetion closed.
I enabled port 22 in my linksys router, I leave passphrase empyt...

the ip of my mac is 192.168.0.100 and iphone is 192.168.0.101
I set remote login and remote management ON in my mac sharing preferences...

terminal ask me password of root@192.168.0.101... i fill and ok
terminal ask me password of Murilo@192.168.0.100... i fill and conetion closed / logout / process completed and end.

what can i do wrong?

(my iPhone version is 1.0.2 and I`ve OpenSSH installed and ON)

thanks!

[murilo]

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[francisois]

looking at your terminal output it seems that the setup worked. SSH from your computer to your iphone and back is also working so its not an issue with port forwarding.

Open terminal on your mac and type this command in:

ssh root@192.168.0.101

type 'alpine' as the password and then enter this command:

crontab -l

(thats 'l' as in 'L')
PM me the output of that command so I can help you get this thing working

Sorry if its taken me a while to respond, I'm currently in the middle of finals at med school and I can't put a lot of time into development. If there are any bugs or other serious issues its important for me to know and I'm glad that you reported this.

[Zabumafu]

Still not working for me. I am not able to enter in alpine and when I finally do at random it just done and nothing has happened.

[francisois]

oh alright

Terminal will never show the password as you enter it, so just type alpine and hit enter, don't worry that you cant see it, trust me, its reading the input but for security purposes it will never show anything as you type the password

[Zabumafu]

oh alright

Terminal will never show the password as you enter it, so just type alpine and hit enter, don't worry that you cant see it, trust me, its reading the input but for security purposes it will never show anything as you type the password

Hmm I was typing in Alpine and it never seemed to work. I will try again.

[francisois]

please do, and tell me how it goes for you (just make sure you type alpine exactly as it is with no capital letters or spaces of any sort, I know its hard to know what ur typing when u cant exactly see it, but this is a UNIX security measure thats been around for decades and theres no way around it lol)

Good luck :)

[Zabumafu]

It worked thank you great find.

[francisois]

nah thank you, now that uve mentioned this, I'm going to write an extensive user guide so that other users dont get confused by this again :)

[francisois]

Version 0.65 Released. Find it on the project website:

iSync Project Home Page (http://www.ifrancis.net)

[rumpelgeist]

Version 0.65 Released. Find it on the project website:

iSync Project Home Page (http://www.ifrancis.net)

Pardon my ignorance, but what exactly does this do? I understand that it syncs over WiFi, but what does it sync? Does it essentially replace iTunes for syncing?

Rumpelgeist

[francisois]

Nope, its a simple folder to folder synchronization tool, so ull be able to browse the files and open them in safari if ur running a webserver on ur iphone, but they wont sync with ur itunes library, not yet anyway (working on it i promise)

[rumpelgeist]

Nope, its a simple folder to folder synchronization tool, so ull be able to browse the files and open them in safari if ur running a webserver on ur iphone, but they wont sync with ur itunes library, not yet anyway (working on it i promise)

Thank you for the information.

Personally, I would love to see a tool that would allow me to sync the data that iTunes syncs wirelessly. This is something I would be happy to pay for.

Why Apple didn't give us a way to sync over WiFi out of the box, I will never know.

Rumpelgeist

[francisois]

working on it, and it will be free and opensource :)

[rumpelgeist]

working on it, and it will be free and opensource :)

That's very cool. Both the fact that you are working on it and the fact that it will be free.

Thank you.

Although, if you ever change that, I would have no problem paying for it. I fully support paying small developers for their effort. Many times--much of the time--apps from small developers rival those of the big guys for a substantially lower cost.

I will never have a problem paying for excellence.

Again, thank you!

Rumpelgeist

[francisois]

Finally, v0.7 is out and it includes, due to requests by many users, for the first time, a native iPhone app that allows you to switch automatic sync on and off!

[francisois]

Final Beta released, see initial post!

[Johny5]

I have successfully installed this app on both my phone (finder) and mac. Everything seems correct but my sync folder on the phone remains empty. I set the ip to my mac ip in finder and designated the correct remote folder, i think? Is there something else i may be missing?

I'm most likely overlooking something simple, but any help is appreciated.

J5

[francisois]

what did u call the remote folder?

[Johny5]

what did u call the remote folder?

iPhone Sync

Will that make a difference? I directed my mac to that folder location when using the GUI for setup.

J5

[francisois]

no the remote dir is on the iPhone, the GUI points to the local folder. Email me at yousef{AT}ifrancis[DOT]net and ill help u through it.

[francisois]

Update (07/19/2007) wiSync 1.0 Officially Launched:
wiSync 1.0 was launched yesterday, with a full GUI implementation as promised, and a host of enhancements and customizability! Now includes a native iPhone app to manage remote synchronization directly from your iPhone!

Official Launch Site (http://modmyifone.com/wisync)
Public Download Mirror (http://code.google.com/p/iphone-isync/)

http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/4163/wisyncwindowup5.png

[jpmihalk]

Are you still on track for a Windows release in two weeks?

[francisois]

I know we promised windows support by this time, but its been a lot more complicated than we had hoped, we don't have a scheduled release date for the windows version, all I can really say is that its being worked on, and it shouldn't be 'too' long.

[jailbroken]

You independent developers have taken my iPhone from being a big disappointment to being better than I'd imagined.

However... I'm having trouble getting wiSync to work on my Intel Mac, 10.4.11, and 1.1.2 week 50 iPhone. I've installed SSH on the iPhone and enabled remote login on my laptop. wiSync seems to run fine on my laptop, when I click 'install wiSync on iPhone' it runs through the "generating SSH keys" process and all in about 60 seconds, but nothing ever changes on my iPhone and it does not install wiToggle. Any suggestions?