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Quickly transferring files between PC and phone (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 Not sure if any links are out of date.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

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

+1 for LocalSend. Well worth checking out.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

+1 Love LocalSend!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

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