McGill barn video uploads

A desktop interface for uploading videos from the barn¶

🎯 Project objective¶

Enable biologists to upload data to the remote storage from the barn using secure and fast protocols.

📋 Project description¶

This project was to create a simple desktop app form to upload folders to the remote file storage server from the experiment barn.

Leveraging the rsync linux command from a Windows Subsystem Linux (WSL) instance the software uploaded data over SSH.

Using a desktop GUI eases the use by biologists gathering data in the barn.

🎨 Design & implementation decisions¶

• rsync protocol for data transfer over SSH

• Automated remote actions on the storage server

• Python 3 interface compiled into Windows binaries

🧾 Key takeaway¶

• GUI building

• Remote connections in Python 3

• Windows and WSL interoperability scripting

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