I just had to email me a file I got sent to my phone and I feel unable to accept this as the better solution.

What you do guys use for inter-device communication?

  • lemonhead2@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    2 months ago
    1. syncthing (file synchronization)
    2. kdeconnect (file transfers, clipboard sharing, presentation remote)
    3. deskflow (keyboard and mouse sharing)
    4. warpinator (one off file sharing)
    5. rsync / scp (one off file copies / backups)
  • terminal@lemmy.mlEnglish
    11·
    2 months ago

    Everyone else mentioned most of what I would suggest.

    One is missing for your original problem. Localsend. Think airdrop but cross platform. Super useful if you have a mix of devices (iOS, android, windows, etc…)

  • voklen@programming.devEnglish
    7·
    2 months ago

    Syncthing for everything: file transfers, backing up phone photos, synced obsidian vaults, etc.

  • talkingpumpkin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    For files I use syncthing (also for music/photos/notes/etc… syncing files is IMHO the way to go wherever applicable).

    For sending links to my PC (eg. articles linked from podcasts’ notes) I used to rely on firefox sync, but I’m starting to distance myself from Mozilla so I am gonna experiment with wallabang.

    For sending small notes to myself (stuff that I want to sort or act upon when I get to my PC), I’m using signal’s “note to self” but I’m investigating alternatives because signal doesn’t mark such messages as unread and so sometimes I forget I’ve sent some.

    • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      Yep. For folders where I want access quick access to everything in the folder, SyncThing is best.

      Starting to dabble with KDE Connect for one-off file transfers where SyncThing is overkill

      • talkingpumpkin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        where SyncThing is overkill

        I just have a dedicated shared folder between my phone and desktop and drop oneoff stuff there (it’s also easier to script this way)

  • autriyo@feddit.orgEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    Mostly Nextcloud, for my Keepass databases that doesn’t work though. Because the android client handles files completely different than the desktop versions.

    So for that I use syncthing with my home server being a hub, that everything syncs to locally, if I need updates to propagate while I’m not home I VPN in. However I rarely need to do that.

      • autriyo@feddit.orgEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        Idk rember exactly, on desktop Nextcloud adds a folder structure to the OSs filesystem.

        On android it doesn’t do that, instead you either open a file from within Nextcloud, which confuses Keepass, and Nextcloud if you change anything. Or at least the sync database feature doesn’t work, or smth like that.

        If I wasn’t careful with adding new entries I’d get a lot of conflicts that weren’t a single click to resolve.

        Syncthing on Android does exactly what the nextcloud- client does on desktop. So the file is just sitting in a folder, and any changes can be ingested into wherever I have and old version of a database open, by using the synchronize with file option.

        • Mihies@programming.devEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          I think the problem is that Android doesn’t immediately upload the changes since Keepass (which one are you using?) doesn’t poll all the time - assuming you opened your .kdbx through “Nextcloud” option. You can always use “Synchronize database…” option of Keepass2Android that will upload or download everything. And even if you have conflicts, they are usually easily solved by merging changes. At least that’s my experience.

          • autriyo@feddit.orgEnglish
            1·
            2 months ago

            Maybe its because I use the variant (of Keepass2Android) with “offline” tacked onto the end?

            I don’t exactly remember why I chose that one though…

            Its a running system now, all the syncthing stuff isn’t exposed to the internet, so I don’t really mind the stuff going on with syncthing-fork atm…

            edit: Its a running system, I won’t touch it unless I need to…

  • sznowicki@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    I use a mix of few things

    • kapus.app for starters where a device is completely new and I need to pass some secrets like login to Nextcloud to get keepass or something
    • Nextcloud - documents that I rarely access. Some bigger files
    • syncthing - for often access files like main keepass. Home server acts as a de-facto hub.
    • quick share for an airdrop replacement
    • if quick share is not working for some reason I also have a private channel on matrix where I can share some stuff quickly as-hoc