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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 nickjj »

How well does this work for sending a lot of files without re-sending the same file?

I have a desktop + laptop + phone.

When I want to sync a directory with a lot of files I wrote a little shell script that uses rsync to do it. This does require running SSH on my laptop but I can invoke the shell script from my desktop.

Likewise with my phone I want to backup my camera photos, using rsync is nice here to avoid sending thousands of them over every time. I run SSH on my phone with Termux, it was really painless to set up and is only on when I run it. Likewise, I invoke the shell script from my desktop to do the transfer.

Re: KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices

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Post by bityard »

Flamingoat wrote: post #85
swaits wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Slackware’s last release was 2.5 years ago. Look at Fedora (if you like RPM distros) if you’re after something pretty nicely put together that stays reasonably well up to date. Very well maintained. Influenced by Red Hat (or “led by” or even “owned by”), which works for some, not for others. CachyOS is trendy these days. EndeavourOS is basically Arch with an installer. There are a few distros targeted at Windows refu…

Arch has an installer these days. It works pretty well and you can have a system up and running in about 20 minutes if you have a fast internet connection. For people that want a Windows like UI, I would probably suggest Cinnamon. It works pretty much like Windows 7/10 without all the visual nonsense that KDE typically has.

My experience is that KDE 6 has very little visual nonsense right out of the box. 4 and 5 did have a lot more, but most/all of it could be disabled. Most other Linux DEs don't really let you customize them to your own personal level of nonsense at any rate.

Re: KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices

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Post by greenavocado »

estimator7292 wrote: post #71
greenavocado wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Speculating here based solely on general networking knowledge. You may have "AP Isolation" enabled and/or multicast blocking on your network may be causing problems. If I was working on KDE Connect I would add a microphone and speaker based pairing system using OFDM modulation lifted from Rattlegram. Each device would share all IP addresses associated with themselves using sound to broadcast the information.

Just use Bluetooth. These days it's very uncommon for a PC to not have Bluetooth. More of my PCs have Bluetooth than have microphones.

Maybe the Bluetooth connection can be used for IP and port discovery.

Re: KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices

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Post by groovybits »

nickjj wrote: post #91

How well does this work for sending a lot of files without re-sending the same file? I have a desktop + laptop + phone. When I want to sync a directory with a lot of files I wrote a little shell script that uses rsync to do it. This does require running SSH on my laptop but I can invoke the shell script from my desktop. Likewise with my phone I want to backup my camera photos, using rsync is nice here to avoid sendin…

For this purpose, I would not suggest KDE Connect.

What you're looking for is something more like SyncThing: https://syncthing.net

Re: KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices

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Post by p4bl0 »

sombragris wrote: post #17

At least in my use case (as link between Android devices and both Linux/Win PCs) KDE Connect is a real killer app. It enabled seamless integration and saved me lots of hassle and time. It really should get more exposure. I see reports that it doesn't work. These are mostly for distros where Plasma is either rather old or taking a backseat after other environment (usually Gnome). I'm having great results with the late…

I've been using KDE Connect without a hassle for years on Debian stable as well :).

Re: KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices

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Post by groovybits »

stormed wrote: post #83

KDE Connect has been my answer to Apple's Airdrop for the last couple of years. It's an excellent program; I even use it on my Mac for file transferring with my Steam Deck

Same use case, its also been very useful for copying and pasting text from my Mac to the Steam Deck, similar to Universal Copy and Paste between Apple devices.

Re: KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

tempfile wrote: post #59

Can this be used without KDE, on another desktop environment? Without systemd, even?

It definitely works on other DEs. As an extreme case, there's even a GNOME extension implementation: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1319/gsconnect/

I can't specifically speak to systemd, but it'd surprise me if there was a dependency there; it's not running that deep in the system. Also there's a guix package and they don't use systemd, so that's another mark in favor.

Re: KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices

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Post by exdeejay_ »

gear54rus wrote: post #70
sombragris wrote: post #17

At least in my use case (as link between Android devices and both Linux/Win PCs) KDE Connect is a real killer app. It enabled seamless integration and saved me lots of hassle and time. It really should get more exposure. I see reports that it doesn't work. These are mostly for distros where Plasma is either rather old or taking a backseat after other environment (usually Gnome). I'm having great results with the late…

I definitely have a need for this, but I can't stomach same-network requirement. Maybe they need self-hostable coordination server so that devices can connect to each other through it. For now it's still 'send to telegram saved messages' for me.

Have you considered using Tailscale to get around the same-network requirement?

Re: KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices

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Post by AbstractH24 »

CaptainOfCoit wrote: post #37
cromka wrote: post #15

Is there any update on whether Apple had already opened their iOS API in EU, which would allow to match the KDE Connect's Android functionality?

I remember getting excited about KDE Connect but then being completely disappointed that it basically non-functional on iOS... As I remember it (tried it last year I think), the application needs to be in the foreground in order to do anything at all, because of Apple's (purposeful) limitations of doing things in the background. So if you were hoping to be able to install this and sync stuff without effort and having…

> I remember getting excited about KDE Connect but then being completely disappointed that it basically non-functional on iOS...

I remember this too. It happened to me about 90 seconds ago.

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