Is this any different to sharedrop.io, and how does it handle large files? I tried to send a zip file through sharedrop.io to my father and it just hung with no progress bar - so I had no idea if it was sending really or not. At least network manager showed only very slow upload.
Snapdrop – AirDrop equivalent through a web browser using WebRTC
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Re: Snapdrop – AirDrop equivalent through a web browser using WebRTC
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
In the Telegram "Chats" tab, search for "Saved Messages". It's an automatically created dropbox of sorts just for you. The icon is a wee bookmark.
Re: Snapdrop – AirDrop equivalent through a web browser using WebRTC
#53Is this any different to sharedrop.io, and how does it handle large files? I tried to send a zip file through sharedrop.io to my father and it just hung with no progress bar - so I had no idea if it was sending really or not. At least network manager showed only very slow upload.
I sent a 5GiB file from my android phone to my laptop, my phone hungs for nearly a minute before it starts the sending process. My hypothesis is that it needs some 'processing' from and to the browser and the phone storage.
Re: Snapdrop – AirDrop equivalent through a web browser using WebRTC
#54Is there an audio chat equivalent of this? When I'm playing networked games with my kids from separate rooms, we often have to resort to overkill utilities like Whatsapp / Discord / etc.
Re: Snapdrop – AirDrop equivalent through a web browser using WebRTC
#55It's not really an AirDrop equivalent if it requires you to be on the same network. AirDrop is really useful when you're out and about somewhere and you want to send someone a file. In those cases there's possibly not a WiFi available or in the case of visitors to your home; only you are on the network, not your friend. So I would not see the point of using this instead of AirDrop unless you have to send a file to someone using Android.
Re: Snapdrop – AirDrop equivalent through a web browser using WebRTC
#56Does this work with folders? For me that's a minimally viable feature.
Re: Snapdrop – AirDrop equivalent through a web browser using WebRTC
#57Is there an audio chat equivalent of this? When I'm playing networked games with my kids from separate rooms, we often have to resort to overkill utilities like Whatsapp / Discord / etc.
Free: https://kosmi.io ?
Re: Snapdrop – AirDrop equivalent through a web browser using WebRTC
#58copypasting from a similar discussion:
See https://file.pizza for a similar file sharing service, but over BitTorrent over WebRTC (not sure if it requires a relay TURN server when peers are behind symmetric NAT) [1][2].
Other such services shared on news.yc previously: https://drop.lol, https://lbry.com, https://webwormhole.io et al [3][4][5].
Just a reminder that, WebRTC doesn't leak your public-IP if you're behind a VPN [6].
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[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19603947
[2] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8445
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17356023
[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22273674
Re: Snapdrop – AirDrop equivalent through a web browser using WebRTC
#59Is there an audio chat equivalent of this? When I'm playing networked games with my kids from separate rooms, we often have to resort to overkill utilities like Whatsapp / Discord / etc.
Free: https://kosmi.io ?
Thanks for the tip. It works but it looks very heavy on the CPU. My fans started spinning not long after I opened the site (2014 MBP / Chrome)
What I would like is a dead-simple app equivalent to a walkie talkie. Self-hosted would be even better, in case we are using local wlan with no internet access.
I found tons of tutorials on how to create a WebRTC application, but strangely no ready-to-use solution.
Re: Snapdrop – AirDrop equivalent through a web browser using WebRTC
#60Is there an audio chat equivalent of this? When I'm playing networked games with my kids from separate rooms, we often have to resort to overkill utilities like Whatsapp / Discord / etc.
Maybe a softphone, like linphone? Works offline and P2P: https://www.linphone.org/