Syncthing is so great, I don’t have to deal with things like a FTP server, sending files to a cloud drive, connecting via USB, or similar. I just point syncthing to the folder I want to replicate and my PC has it immediately and receives new files as soon as I connect to a WiFi (because of my configuration), and then at the PC I can easily backup the files.
Syncthing and Warpinator take care of 99% of my file transfer needs. They’ve become essentials.
I have it on RPi with NAS and it automatically accept shares and announce to other devices
When I tried stock Syncthing for Android it drained my battery very quickly. I use Syncthing-Fork which only checks for changes once an hour.
Can’t you specify this with the normal app?
I would never use it in battery mode, only plugged in, that is how I have my Swiftbackup, Pocket Casts and Feeder downloads schedule.
I honestly don’t remember, I just googled “Syncthing drains battery” or something, someone recommended Fork, it worked.
Nice but what low quality post is that. Not even a “decentralized sync setup”, just an F-Droid link? I see this with Git* projects too. If its not yours, and you dont really have anythings special to say on it, maybe dont use it to get likes
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It is low effort but can spur some worthy discussion in the comments. Good post.
I (currently) only use it for my passwords and my music between my laptop and my phone, but it’s incredibly useful, even for just those 2 things.
Syncthing has become one of my must use apps. I use it regularly to back up files from my phone to my PC.
It’s an incredible tool, don’t know why I thought only cloud providers could do cross-device file syncing in the past…
I use it to transfer large video files and 40000+ images from my phone to PC it transfer fast then normal copy between systems
I connect my PC and phone in tethering mode and open syncthing on both devices
I get 30mb+ per second transfer speed
That’s one of the advantages with p2p-ish networks, if you’re on the same network, devices can often disover each other and communicate directly, bypassing the bottleneck of an internet connection like traditional cloud services have .
It’s nice to see syncthing becoming more popular. It’s a great foss app that deserves more attention and can be used in so many contexts, replacing several proprietary and restrictive solutions
Requires waaay too many permissions. Why does it need to be able to take pictures and record video?
Picture and video permission is for linking a peer by reading its QR code.
Thanks for clarifying.
I guess for barcode to connect to devices (device key sharing), it is optional, if you share something with other people (family)
each folder has its own permissions and allowed devices
you can add your devices manually and those are auto detected on LAN, you just need to confirm device key
Ah, thanks for clarifying.
If I’m not mistake the default settings makes it so syncthing is not peer to peer but it involves their servers to pass the data. If anyone knows more about this please share.
I think that’s only if you’re not on the same network
You probably mean the relay servers. They are used in case your devices are behind a NAT and don’t have any ports forwarded. In that case, it would be impossible for devices on different networks to communicate over the internet, so the relay servers make the communication work. It’s not something to worry, since your data is encrypted when passing through it, but it can be disabled.
How do I connect it to my laptop, running Manjaro?
it should be in the repository, you can use web UI, default is
http://localhost:8384/It’s really annoying to back up anything on Android as the fucking SAF doesn’t allow me to back up root folders, so I have to back up everything individually.
I always had a hard time wrapping my head around the setup. I mostly use Nextcloud for sync now.
Interestingly I’ve found Syncthing far far easier to setup than Nextcloud :D
Oh man, this might change few things in my system, how did i not know about this earlier
What’s even cooler is that you can set up untrusted node(s) to store an E2EE copy of the data.
I use a cheap VPS like that so if none of my other nodes are online they can still sync to that VPS. Without the encryption key, no one can read the data in case of a compromised server or the VPS owner trying to snoop.
