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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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[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Damn that sucks :(. Seems to me I have to disable my VPN in order to discover devices, but I can re-enable it afterwards. I use it mostly for clipboard sharing between devices.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago

My home network is split between wired and wireless, they're on different IP ranges. I have every proper forwarding protocol and UDP sniffing everything set up so that devices can talk to each other across subnets.

It refuses.

So at home I can set it up on Linux to use a static IP to find my phone. And the phone kind of deals with it and works most of the time. But then I go to work and my IPs are the two devices change. Then I'm SOL.

Also if I'm home and I'm roaming onto one of my other networks to talk to security cameras or something it's incapable of talking to my PC.

Honestly it's discovery is just bad for me. I really wish that it's supported a list of IPs, or gave me some kind of client I could run in concert with tail scale or I could move s*** around it's just absolutely inflexible and for no good reason.