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.

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KDE Connect is amazing. Also works without KDE.

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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.

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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

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

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

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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

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

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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.
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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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51 points

Kde connect is great.

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KDE connect is a large suite of some good, some half-baked, and some just plain scary remote tools.

I’m liking LocalSend for the occasional “I want some files/pictures/text to go from here to there”.

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It’s a lot to toggle off, on each computer, multiplied by every other computer that you’re connecting to. It’s too insecure-by-default.

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I second KDE connect. It’s awesome. Don’t listen to the haters.

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I used to love it until I started having so many problems, and with zero support I had to give up.

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Syncthing

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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.

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What phone are you using? I’ve used it my many Android devices from different manufacturers. Always worked flawlessly.

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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.

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Yeah, to reiterate what @SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org said, syncthing works flawlessly on any Android devices I have used.

Maybe there’s something you missed on your phone’s setup?

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There is an fdroid version named syncthing fork. Give that a go.

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Either Localsend, if you’re only interested in that one function, or KDE Connect for the ultimate experience.

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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?

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" 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.

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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

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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/

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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).

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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

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