Hey,

I was wondering what folks use to quickly send a file or a link between your PC and android phone in a lightweight and self hosted way.

Currently I use syncthing to copy files around, but I’m looking for something more immediate, and quick than doesn’t involve searching for folders in a file manager.

Example use case: Send a file from PC to phone. Notification pops up on phone, tap it to access.

(PC runs OpenBSD)

What lightweight software do you guys use?

Stuff I tried so far:

  • syncthing
  • xmpp
  • tox
  • scp and termux.
  • magic wormhole
  • telegram saved messages
  • Lettuce eat lettuceEnglish
    42•2 days ago

    I love localsend.

    Works on Linux, Android, iOS, Windows, and Mac. It is basically an OS agnostic Airdrop.

    It’s FOSS, so you can go to the Github and build from source for OpenBSD, but I have no idea if that would work.

    • @[email protected]OPEnglish
      4•2 days ago

      Dart (the language it’s written in) doesn’t work on BSD, so sadly that’s out of the question for now.

      • @HawkEnglish
        1•7 hours ago

        Maybe snapdrop?

        When I was obsd I did FTP and rsync for everything. Syncthing had dinner performance issues for me.

        Maybe Seafile but I had a bad time with that.