The android development always just seemed… off, idk, I just got weird feelings about it and the fork. So I switched my family to use termux and termux:boot to run syncthing instead, it works fine.
I have no idea what you mean. I just had to set this up once on my parents’ phones and now it works all the time, even when they change networks, no port forwarding or any interaction required on their part. Rsync is a cli that requires an existing network connection between two devices, both online, and doesn’t watch files or create a file version history. It is an entirely different tool.
Yeah, it’s odd to me that the syncthing repo makes a point of not officially supporting android, and not making any promises about its continued maintenance. It’s a large part of their user base, but it seems, for some reason, this developer that went dark never spent time to coordinate with or join the core team.
The android development always just seemed… off, idk, I just got weird feelings about it and the fork. So I switched my family to use termux and termux:boot to run syncthing instead, it works fine.
At that point why not use rsync?
I have no idea what you mean. I just had to set this up once on my parents’ phones and now it works all the time, even when they change networks, no port forwarding or any interaction required on their part. Rsync is a cli that requires an existing network connection between two devices, both online, and doesn’t watch files or create a file version history. It is an entirely different tool.
Ahh, makes sense for your use case, then.
Rather than ST I used to use rsync+ssh, and just had a Docker SSH container running with users in the ENV.
I’ve switched to WG in all devices since then, though.
Does running termux all of the time affect battery much?
Not as much as the syncthing apps.
I’ve had no such issues with the syncthing-fork.
Could you elaborate at all?
Yeah, it’s odd to me that the syncthing repo makes a point of not officially supporting android, and not making any promises about its continued maintenance. It’s a large part of their user base, but it seems, for some reason, this developer that went dark never spent time to coordinate with or join the core team.