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[Solved] Solution to send mostly text but also files from android to pc and pc to android (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello.

I'm looking for a solution to send text from my PC to my phone, but also the other way around. Big plus if I can send files too in both ways. I already use pairdrop which is nice (while not 100% reliable from my experience) for files, and ntfy is good to send a notification (so basically text) to my phone but the android app won't let me send from my phone to my pc.

I used to use airdroid a while back, but I don't want to use proprietary software if I can.

Any idea ?

Solution: snapdrop or pairdrop. For text, right click on PC, long press on phone.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Have you tried KDE connect? It has Linux & Windows clients and can send clipboard/files/notifications/etc. seamlessly in either direction between Android and PC.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Thanks for your answer. I remember having tried it twice before. If I remember correctly, I ditched it because it was too complicated for my use case. But as everyone is suggesting it here, I shall give it another try :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It really doesn't work well for me. I can't get the clipboard feature to work no matter what I do. And I can see all my SMS messages there, but when I send one, it never sends and there's no error message.

It works for notifications, which is one of the most important features for me, but idk. I feel like there's gotta be something better. Something where half the features aren't broken.

I used it many years ago with a different phone and laptop and had kind of a similar experience. Sometimes it would update and a feature would be broken for 6 months, then it would update again and it would start working. But at least SMS worked, which is probably my second most important feature.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's strange, I can't say I've experienced any of that over the past few years I've been using it. I have seen small differences in how windows and Linux handle the connection, but I think that has more to do with my Linux network settings than the app.