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What are your self–hosted alternatives for inter device communication? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by Gonzako@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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?

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[–] autriyo@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.dev 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.org 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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...