Comment on KDE Plasma Bigscreen (Android TV alternative) is back from dead

• Lumisal@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’m wondering what I’ve done wrong with KDE Connect as I could never get it working on any device across 3 different smartphones

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  • SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I found opensuse’s default firewall rules were very restrictive and you needed to open a port.

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  • MajorSauce@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Sadly the distributions I tried did not open the required port(s) on the built-in firewall (Bazzite and CachyOS, for two).

    I would suggest to disable any firewall and check if you can pair.

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    • greybeard@feddit.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      You are probably correct that the firewall is the culprit. Good suggestion.

      I realize disabling the firewall for testing is OK, but I recommend looking up what it takes to open the ports or app in the firewall instead. I've spent my whole career running into and fixing instances where techs disabled firewalls for "testing" and never re-enabled them.

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      • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        You mean they didn’t just turn off the firewall on all client machines and rely entirely on a single firewall at the network gateway? Because that’s what I’ve seen way too much of…

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