What are your self–hosted alternatives for inter device communication?

2026-06-04 07:33 UTC

I just had to email me a file I got sent to my phone and I feel unable to accept this as the better solution. What you do guys use for inter-device communication?

Replies (9)

@_aj@piefed.world 2026-06-04 09:52

LocalSend on both devices is something I’ve used

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@Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-06-05 05:33

SMB share ( Android Windows/Steam Machine

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@tatterdemalion@programming.dev 2026-06-05 05:42

Copyparty

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@Symphonic@lemmy.world 2026-06-05 05:43

Localsend

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@Tiritibambix@lemmy.ml 2026-06-05 05:44

Samba drive + vpn tunnel. If I’m working on my PC and want to do something with my phone: plainapp

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@solxix@pawb.social 2026-06-05 05:48

I know it’s not a dedicated (or that good of a) solution but I just upload stuff to a private room on my Matrix server.

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@Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-06-05 07:00

For phone PC I use localsend. If I do PC to PC, possibly even large amounts of files or large files in general I put them on a network drive specifically intended for that purpose

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@SaneMartigan@lemmy.world 2026-06-05 07:28

I use ghost commander on my phone to access my NAS on my home network.

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@black0ut@pawb.social 2026-06-04 12:21

For sending files between a phone and a PC, I use KDE Connect. For sending files between PCs, I use SSH. Both are really simple and lightweight tools that normally come preinstalled, and you can use them with no configuration.

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