I’m running OpenSUSE leap 15.5, When I was on the linux mint, I was using warpinator but using it on openSUSE is troublesome and I wish there was a linux version of blip but unfortunately there is not.

    • nerdschleife@lemm.eeEnglish
      11·
      5 个月前

      This just stops working on either my Linux laptop or my phone randomly. I’ll need to kill the process and restart it Does anyone know how I can fix this? Battery optimisations are turned off on the phone.

      • themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works
        7·
        5 个月前

        If you turned off battery optimisations globally, it might still kill it. You specifically have to go into app options and allow it to be always on, as well as allowing all it’s notifications

        • nerdschleife@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          5 个月前

          Sorry, I meant optimisations for KDE Connect in particular. It has a persistent notification enabled as well.

          • themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works
            1·
            5 个月前

            It kind of needs that (you can use trucks to make it go away) because of the android model of apps where an app may get yeeted off a cliff if it’s not currently showing a notification. Again, you can pull some tricks but for the average user they have to do it this way.

    • someacnt_@lemmy.world
      41·
      5 个月前

      KDE Connect to my iPad just stopped working for me a few months ago. Do you know of any possible reasons?

      • suny@literature.cafe
        6·
        5 个月前

        could be something fucked with your network settings or ports. if you have 2.4 and 5ghz modes try connecting your ipad to the mode different from the one used by your pc, works for me (edit: on android phone) and I still have no idea why

        • someacnt_@lemmy.world
          1·
          5 个月前

          Doesn’t seem to work… Whenever I send a file from my ipad,

          1. KDE Connect simply stops connecting correctly.
          2. GSConnect keeps connection, but the file always fail to send.
        • iSeth@lemmy.ml
          1·
          5 个月前

          KDEC has been horribly buggy on IOS in my experience. Never connecting or showing devices only occasionally.

    • Fonzie!@ttrpg.network
      2·
      5 个月前

      Nah it doesn’t. It works great on Debian KDE and my Android phone. It does not work on Mint Cinnamon and my Android phone.

      • EarthShipTechIntern@lemm.ee
        1·
        5 个月前

        Works on xubuntu. Though restarts are a common solution to no connection. That’s fine, I’d rather not spend extra juice to keep them Wi-Fi tethered.

    • WereCat@lemmy.world
      1·
      5 个月前

      Is there a way for KDE connect to connect PC with phone if phone is on WiFi and PC on LAN going trough different router in the same network?

      • tuxed@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        5 个月前

        Wont go inte networking, but assuming networking works between them you can manually specify an IP in the mobile app:

        Add a device -> three dots in top right -> add devices by IP.

        Bonus: This also works over tailscale and similar apps, making it so you can have an always on connection despite not being home.

    • ReallyZen@lemmy.ml
      21·
      5 个月前

      Never could get it to work with phones, and that from Arch, Mint, Asahi, Macos all sharing flawlessly between thembut no phone would reliably stay sync’ed.

        • ReallyZen@lemmy.ml
          2·
          5 个月前

          I have a 2-year old android 11 oppo A53, my colleague some small samsung on A10. Installs fine, sync a first time somewhat, then just don’t sync a thing.

          • absGeekNZ@lemmy.nzEnglish
            10·
            5 个月前

            Oppo has very aggressive battery management.

            While I was using one, had to manually turn off battery management for syncthing, and check after major updates…

            But worked flawlessly once that issue was solved.

          • ѕєχυαℓ ρσℓутσρє@lemmy.sdf.org
            6·
            5 个月前

            Interesting. I currently use it on a Samsung Galaxy S22 and a Galaxy Tab S6 Lite. In the past, I’ve used OnePlus, Redmi, and Realme devices. Always worked.

            Maybe post it in their forum? They’re usually very helpful.

            • ѕєχυαℓ ρσℓутσρє@lemmy.sdf.org
              21·
              5 个月前

              Something like this happened on my sister’s laptop. She got a new laptop with Windows 11. She followed some website to set up Syncthing, but it wasn’t syncing. Turns out, there’s some kind of “trusted network” deal that needs to be figured out. (Don’t remember the exact term anymore.) Anyway, helped her fix it, and installed Debian Stable on it the next time I was visiting.

    • boatswain@infosec.pub
      4·
      5 个月前

      I love Localsend because it’s gloriously simple: Does exactly what you want, and nothing more. I haven’t used KDE Contact; what else does it add in?

      • ReallyZen@lemmy.ml
        10·
        5 个月前

        " KdeConnect": Notifications, messages, clioboard sharing, link sharing, remote control of your pointing.device, keyboard, command inputs on computer… When it works it’s great, but it is hit-and-miss between distros and updates catching up.

        • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          2·
          5 个月前

          Absolutely love the ability to share links from my android and have them open automagically on my linux HTPC. Also made a command shortcut for my laptop so I can unlock it from my android. Really versatile

  • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    30·
    5 个月前

    Syncthing for automated syncing (highly reccomend)

    https://github.com/schollz/croc for quick and lazy file sends (auto nat & proxy included)

    sftp get from phone if it’s like one thing (various ssh/sftp apps on gplay and fdroid)

    • xavier666@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      5 个月前

      Solid explorer on my phone. Nautilus or any file manager on PC.

      sftp each one from the other. Add the connection as a favourite. File transfer becomes a drag and drop thing. Bonus points if you create a static IP for each device.

  • danielfgom@lemmy.worldEnglish
    30·
    5 个月前

    Use LocalSend. It’s exactly like Apple Airdrop but works on ALL operating systems so no matter what device you have you can easily transfer files.

    It’s local, secure and open source.

    https://localsend.org/

    • duncesplayed@lemmy.oneEnglish
      1·
      5 个月前

      LocalSend. It’s exactly like Apple Airdrop

      This may be super-nitpicky (and I lose LocalSend and use it a lot), but there is one difference between LocalSend and Airdrop. LocalSend requires network connectivity (and requires the devices to be on the same network), whereas Airdrop can work without any network connection (using Bluetooth).

      • danielfgom@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        5 个月前

        You’re right. LocalSend does require WiFi connectivity. In terms of convenience it’s just like Airdrop, if you have that network.

        Maybe one day they could add Bluetooth. Would be cool

    • jbk@discuss.tchncs.de
      4·
      5 个月前

      There’s an in-development program for GNOME called Valent. It’s been pretty solid for me. It’s also not a GNOME shell extension, instead a native app.

      • youmaynotknow@lemmy.ml
        3·
        5 个月前

        Oh, nice. Thank you, I’ll take it for a spin.

        Went to look into it, and seems to be in very early stages. I’ll set up the flatpak on my computer and laptop to help where I can, seems like a very nice option. Do you know how to integrate it to Android? I could not find anything on that.

        Edit: So it works from the KDEConnect Android app. Nice.

  • ScottE@lemm.ee
    22·
    5 个月前

    I use syncthing all over the place for this sort of thing. I have some sync directories that are multi way synced across multiple devices, others that are one-way drop targets to a specific device, others that are for operations like backing up photos. It’s quite excellent with a good sync algorithm that rarely results in conflicts.

  • Fijxu@programming.dev
    16·
    5 个月前

    LocalSend or KDE Connect. Syncthing if you need to sync files (Like an important documents folder that always needs to be up to date between your PC and Phone)