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Quickly transferring files between PC and phone (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by vext01@lemmy.sdf.org to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hey,

I was wondering what folks use to quickly send a file or a link between your PC and android phone in a lightweight and self hosted way.

Currently I use syncthing to copy files around, but I'm looking for something more immediate, and quick than doesn't involve searching for folders in a file manager.

Example use case: Send a file from PC to phone. Notification pops up on phone, tap it to access.

(PC runs OpenBSD)

What lightweight software do you guys use?

Stuff I tried so far:

syncthing
xmpp
tox
scp and termux.
magic wormhole
telegram saved messages

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[–] terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I mean, the fastest method is likely to just plug the phone into PC and pretend it's a flash drive?

[–] Hawk@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

From memory MTP is pretty flaky and quite slow.

ADB push is pretty good but at that stage rsync is just as easy.

Put SSH in the phone and you can do it all from the computer too.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

MTP's not bad anymore. It works perfectly well in Windows Linux and Mac these days and is as fast as anything else.

[–] Hawk@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 year ago

Oh good to know.

It used to be awful but I'm glad to hear it's improving.

[–] ChapulinColorado@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I don’t know if it is always the fastest. I know they said android, but for example on not too old Apple phones (pre-usb c), I had the impression you could get better throughout on wifi compared to a cable connection. Maybe that’s just apple trying to squeeze money on proprietary connectors, but other manufacturers seem to copy their worst takes sometimes though.