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OpenDrop: An open Apple AirDrop implementation written in Python

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You can also take a look at the following: Croc: - Site: https://schollz.com/blog/croc6/ - Source: https://github.com/schollz/croc Magic Wormhole: - Source: https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole Send (A fork of Mozilla's Send): - Site: https://send.vis.ee/ - Source: https://github.com/timvisee/send - CLI: https://gitlab.com/timvisee/ffsend I've personally used Snapdrop and Croc before and they're both very…

Note, none of these options seem to include device-to-device discovery/rendezvous. AirDrop's use of wireless technology to discover (bluetooth) & connect (wifi) devices remains a great frontier few have explored or tapped. Sad.

It's a real shame.

I've been fiddling away with OWL and OpenDrop for a few months now, trying to get it working on a Raspberry Pi Zero.

The goal was a digital picture frame that accepts Bluetooth and AirDrop pictures. The bluetooth part works fine... but it's the Airdrop part that's dead in the water at the moment.

Re: OpenDrop: An open Apple AirDrop implementation written in Python

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I was at the drug store trying to print photos the other day; I was required to bring either an SD card, a USB drive, or a phone with their custom app installed, which I'm never gonna do. I thought to myself, "why on Earth is there no cross-platform version of AirDrop?" and here we are :D
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