Is there a static, single html version of this? So I can host it on my cheap OpenWRT router with minimal effort.
You can probably use the docker container from the repo.
Link: https://github.com/RobinLinus/snapdrop
Snapdrop – AirDrop equivalent through a web browser using WebRTC
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Re: Snapdrop – AirDrop equivalent through a web browser using WebRTC
#42I love the concept. Kudos!
Some feedback; I have an iPhone and Firefox running on Ubuntu; they could find each other, but the iPhone couldn't send files to the Firefox instance.
It did work with Chromium though (which was very cool)
Re: Snapdrop – AirDrop equivalent through a web browser using WebRTC
#43I really don't understand HN's obsession with webrtc based file sharing tools. 1 of these is posted every 6 months or so, Every version of it is doing more or less the same thing and every time it gets to the front page and stays on it for a while. What's happening?
Re: Snapdrop – AirDrop equivalent through a web browser using WebRTC
#44> You are known as Azure Bug Ok, that’s cute. I would perhaps delay showing the funny name until at least one other machine is detected, it makes it feel like my name is being broadcast over the public Internet for anyone to connect to, and not just a LAN connection, the way it is. But worked perfectly for me to send a few photos back and forth. LAN connections seem like the perfect application for WebRTC not having…
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Re: Snapdrop – AirDrop equivalent through a web browser using WebRTC
#45I really don't understand HN's obsession with webrtc based file sharing tools. 1 of these is posted every 6 months or so, Every version of it is doing more or less the same thing and every time it gets to the front page and stays on it for a while. What's happening?
I guess they seem to solve a common difficulty (cross-device file sharing), but in the end they are not good enough to be widely adopted, and they get forgotten.
Re: Snapdrop – AirDrop equivalent through a web browser using WebRTC
#46> You are known as Azure Bug Ok, that’s cute. I would perhaps delay showing the funny name until at least one other machine is detected, it makes it feel like my name is being broadcast over the public Internet for anyone to connect to, and not just a LAN connection, the way it is. But worked perfectly for me to send a few photos back and forth. LAN connections seem like the perfect application for WebRTC not having…
Although my plate is pretty full with projects I'm curious to know whether it's possible to implement a peer discovery service by consuming bandwidth in a modulated fashion and detecting those changes in bandwidth availability on another machine.
You could also scan a LAN's entire subnet for machines with this: https://github.com/jdfreder/pingjs
Re: Snapdrop – AirDrop equivalent through a web browser using WebRTC
#47This was the best demo I've seen in a long time. Simple, fast, worked well. Great job!
On the other hand, if it's not working, there's absolutely no information about why not. Seems fine between (firefox on ubuntu) and (safari on ios), but neither can talk to (chromium/bromite on e.os) and there's no error message or anything, just nothing ever shows up at the other end. Super slick between the two that do work, though!
> if it's not working, there's absolutely no information about why not
Sounds like my experience with Apple's regular Airdrop :) but to be honest, it's been quite some time since it failed me.
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Yup. I have been using it a lot. Didn't realize it even exited until I installed the desktop client and it showed up in contacts. They need some good PR on that feature.
Telegram has similar "Saved Messages" feature.
Can you expand om that? The way I send something to myself on Telegram is by posting something in a group, of which I'm the only member.
Re: Snapdrop – AirDrop equivalent through a web browser using WebRTC
#49I really don't understand HN's obsession with webrtc based file sharing tools. 1 of these is posted every 6 months or so, Every version of it is doing more or less the same thing and every time it gets to the front page and stays on it for a while. What's happening?
So posting one of these every six months or so counts as an obsession?
Re: Snapdrop – AirDrop equivalent through a web browser using WebRTC
#50This is my SignalR alternative with end-to-end encryption. Choose a password and the file / message will be encrypted in client side.