Comment on Best phone sync

halm@leminal.space ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Do you use it on a phone too? I did find it tricky to set up (more options than I really need, and the phone app settings don’t really work unless you select “Web UI”, which is really strange), but I didn’t mind the setup if I could then leave it alone and it works. Ideally I want to set this up on other family phones, so I can update notes and they appear everywhere.

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  • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I keep multiple phones in sync, with hundreds of gigs synced every day.

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    • peregus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Have you found a way to get rid of the notification and keep Syncthing running in background?

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      • jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Just hide it in your OS notification settings

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    • bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Good to know. If I can get it working reliably, it will be worth sticking with. Someone suggested it might just not be auto-starting on reboots. I’m trying the fork of the UI on f-droid to see if it helps.

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  • sunstoned@lemmus.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I prefer Syncthing-fork for some more straightforward configuration. Mainly the three button options equating to “follow the run conditions, damnit”, “run damnit”, and “stop damnit”

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    • bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thanks. I’m giving that a try!

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  • sxan@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s the main way I sync my phone.

    I have a different app for photos, but SyncThing on my phone, and on my desktop, and again on one of my home servers, do most of the download and data syncing.

    Occasionally I’ll have to manually run SyncThing; I’m not certain that Android is reliably starting it after reboots, but for the most part it just does it’s thing really reliably. There is a lag; it can take a few minutes for changes to sync - it’s not immediate. For me, this isn’t a problem, and I’d rather that than a battery suck, so I haven’t messed with it.

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    • bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I could live with a few minutes, but it’s showig as offline for days. Maybe it is failing after a reboot. At least that would be a known situation to watch for.

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      • fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        In my experience syncthing is always a bit like that using the default discovery settings.

        I use a hub & spoke set up now. Instead of A, B, and C all connecting to each other directly, they only connect to D. I also input the address for D specifically instead of using discovery servers.

        With this set up I’ve never had any drama.

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      • sxan@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Honestly, I think Android is fucked for debugging stuff like this. I installed a program on mine and my wife’s phones - different makes & models - and configured them exactly the same, including the app settings in the OS. Mine works perfectly and barely shows up in battery use, near the bottom. Her’s drains her battery even when she’s not using it, regularly running at 50% of total battery consumption.

        With Android YMMV is the rule, rather than the exception. There’s just too many variables.

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  • halm@leminal.space ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, phone to laptop, and I recently synced all backups and files from an old phone to a new one, too. Once you have the computer setup, you can basically connect phones by reading its QR code.

    If the official Syncthing Android app is giving you a hard time, maybe try Syncthing-fork? IIRC that’s only the daemon and web GUI wrapped as an app. But I’ve used the main app only for the past few years.

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    • bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I have the phones connected, but the app just decides to disconnect and stay that way until I check it. I’ll give that fork a try, thanks!

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      • halm@leminal.space ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Perhaps your phone has extra aggressive battery saving settings that kill the background process? The official Syncthing has a setting to run as a persistent service, which always helped me.

        Otherwise see if you can make system exceptions for the app to run in the background, and allow it to auto-sync. It’s been a while since I used the forked app, buy it did help me out on a device where the official didn’t work for me.

        Hope this helps.

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    • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Fork works much better on Android, largely because it moves sync conditions into the individual sync jobs (what ST calls folders).

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