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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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[–] vinnymac@lemmy.world 50 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Here are a bunch of local services I’ve used at one point or another from phone to PC or PC to PC. Not sure if any links are out of date.

KDE Connect

Site: https://kdeconnect.kde.org/
Source: https://github.com/KDE/kdeconnect-kde

Wormhole (Closed Source)

Site: https://wormhole.app/

LocalSend

Site: https://localsend.org/
Source: https://github.com/localsend/localsend

SnapDrop

Site: https://snapdrop.net/
Source: https://github.com/RobinLinus/snapdrop

ShareDrop

Site: https://www.sharedrop.io/
Source: https://github.com/szimek/sharedrop

FilePizza

Site: https://file.pizza/
Source: https://github.com/kern/filepizza

Original Wormhole

Site: https://webwormhole.io/
Source: https://github.com/saljam/webwormhole

PeerTransfer

Site: https://perguth.de/peertransfer/
Source: https://github.com/perguth/peertransfer

JustBeamIt

Site: https://justbeamit.com/
Source: https://github.com/justbeamit/beam

Send Visee

Website: https://send.vis.ee/
Source: https://github.com/timvisee/send
List of instances at: https://github.com/timvisee/send-instances

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

+1 for LocalSend. Well worth checking out.

[–] Arkhive@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 year ago

Another +1 for it here. Use it multiple times a day between Linux, MacOS, android, and iOS.

[–] happinessattack@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

+1 KDE Connect. File transfer works great on Android, Linux, and even on Windows 10/11! Clipboard sync is also a game changer; super easy to copy and paste across devices.

[–] reddwarf@feddit.nl 7 points 1 year ago

+1 Love LocalSend!

[–] dahpu@feddit.org 3 points 1 year ago

PairDrop is a fork of SnapDrop, which at one point had more features and active development. Don't know, how it is nowadays though.

[–] cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey wormhole is closed source? Wow I didn't knew that.

[–] vinnymac@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

There are two, the original open source version and its forks, and then the closed source version.