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KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices

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Re: KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices

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Post by Oxodao »

m463 wrote: post #18
creatonez wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It has bluetooth support now as well

it also talks about using a VPN and what ports to open in a firewall. I don't know how it handles the harder part, the "device on internet" talks to "device in my house" most phones and apps use this "harder part" to interpose their corporate server for more than TURN/STUN and continue to "collect all the data" or "insert a subscription"

Did you get this to work with wireguard though?

As long as my phone is connected to wireguard KDEConnect does NOT see any other computer, apparently because it wont forward ICMP broadcast according to the internet.

I would really like to have a solution to this issue but since its baked in WG i don't think this is possible

Re: KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices

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Post by mid-kid »

The branding does a major disservice to this application - it works like a charm on my windows and i3wm setups, having no trouble sharing a clipboard and files. There are very few features if any that only work on KDE.

Sometimes on windows it needs a click of the refresh button to get going after connecting to a network. The discovery is wonky on some platforms.

Re: KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices

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Post by m463 »

Oxodao wrote: post #21
m463 wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

it also talks about using a VPN and what ports to open in a firewall. I don't know how it handles the harder part, the "device on internet" talks to "device in my house" most phones and apps use this "harder part" to interpose their corporate server for more than TURN/STUN and continue to "collect all the data" or "insert a subscription"

Did you get this to work with wireguard though? As long as my phone is connected to wireguard KDEConnect does NOT see any other computer, apparently because it wont forward ICMP broadcast according to the internet. I would really like to have a solution to this issue but since its baked in WG i don't think this is possible

Actually, I mean the whole "find and talk to my home server over the internet"

Generally it does this by having a DNS record for your home server, or having some other well-known server give out its address or relay the packets.

Re: KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices

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Post by blooalien »

karmakaze wrote: post #3

I was wondering what "the network" here means: > To achieve this, KDE Connect: implements a secure communication protocol over the network, and allows any developer to create plugins on top of it. Has a component that you install on your desktop. Has a KDE Connect client app you run on your phone. Looking further it is only for the local network (with ways to extend it e.g. VPNs).

> Has a component that you install on your desktop.

This is only if you use Windows (or MacOS, as there's also a KDE Connect compatible Mac app out there somewhere IIRC). If you're on KDE Desktop Linux, you're already good-to-go, as it's a pre-installed component of a typical KDE environment. :)

Re: KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices

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Post by [deleted] »

Kim_Bruning wrote: post #6

This is a killer app. There have been times when I asked someone "why can't you just send me a screenshot on signal" or "Oh, can't you copy the URL to your desktop?"... only to realize that the poor fellow didn't have KDE connect (yet). It's not perfect, but it does things I haven't found anywhere else, makes your phone and laptop and pc. It might help that I'm actually running KDE everywhere, of course.

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Re: KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices

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Post by jcgl »

roshin wrote: post #12

when it works it's amazing. but very often both my phone and laptop are connected to the same WiFi, yet kde connect can't see them. I can't figure out how to diagnose and solve that when it happens

It’s pretty dreadful on iOS, presumably due to OS constraints. I miss how amazing it was on Android.

Re: KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices

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Post by wasmitnetzen »

sphars wrote: post #4

> enables all your devices to communicate with each other I've tried using KDE connect on two desktops (my laptop running Fedora KDE and my desktop running Nobara, also Fedora KDE) and this statement appears false. It was extremely buggy connecting them, and when they did "see" each other, none of the functionality I expected worked. Wanted to use the shared clipboard feature but it didn't work, nor did anything else…

It works fine for me, and has been for at least 2 years, between any subset of 2 laptops (KDE, WiFi), one desktop (KDE, LAN), and two Androids (WiFi). They're all on the same subnet though.

Re: KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices

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Post by janwl »

ottah wrote: post #19
roshin wrote: post #12

when it works it's amazing. but very often both my phone and laptop are connected to the same WiFi, yet kde connect can't see them. I can't figure out how to diagnose and solve that when it happens

Same, it's just too unreliable to be a tool for me. Which feels like the experience with everything that relies on automatic network discovery.

Mirrors my experience with AirDrop.
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