Hey everyone, I hope you are well.

I recently purchased a TP-Link Archer C7 from a thrift store for 4 dollars and converted it into a pineapple router using a firmware build that someone made based on Open-WRT for testing and educational purposes, and it it has raised a few other thoughts and interests.

I have two questions.

  1. Is anyone aware of a software available through F-Droid or otherwise which can be used to turn a phone into a temporary access point serving FTP for file sharing purposes? I think it would be handy to be able to share files to several people in proximity and I would imagine turning a phone into a mobile FTP AP would be something that has been done. If anyone is aware of any such project, I would be highly interested.

  2. For running such a thing whether it be through a phone or a router, is anyone aware of a mobile power source which can fit in a backpack easily and power a 12 volt 1.5 amp router for ~10 hours?

I would love to be able to have the ability to basically have a backpack that acts as a mobile NAS that serves FTP/SFTP.

Thanks.

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Wonderful suggestion, I have an older raspberry pi and a libre sweet potato and i know i could achieve this with those, but I was hoping there was a project out there that would let anyone with a phone do it! I think this would be an excellent way to get people interested in torrent and libre software, because if someone shows up to a location and all it takes is attaching to a wifi access point and then downloading files, it feels very simple and easy to become engaged with it.

Thank you nonetheless though, I think this is wonderful suggestion!

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and if you want to go even cheaper get an esp32 board with an sd card slot (i like the tdongle from lilygo) and it can just serve yhe sdcard files meow

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