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This is an astonishingly useful tool -- I've been using it for years, and I'm always impressed that it's well maintained and getting new features. From the way

by Jedd 8y ago

This is an astonishingly useful tool -- I've been using it for years, and I'm always impressed that it's well maintained and getting new features. From the way my music player (Clementine on KDE) pauses for a call, incoming or outgoing - the media controller from the phone, sms pop-ups on the computer, the file browser and two-way sharing, clipboard mirroring, and a nifty 'find my phone' feature (your computer triggers a phone ring). There's a few features I've not used but are pretty cool to show off to 'other OS users' -- use the phone as a trackpad, triggering 'run commands', etc.

majewsky 8y ago
> use the phone as a trackpad I use the remote control feature (not the trackpad part, but the virtual keyboard) extensively when controlling mpv from the couch. Particularly in conjunction with Hacker's Keyboard for special keys like Alt+F4.
- szemet 8y ago
  I did not hear about KDE connect (maybe because I do not use KDE), but had the exactly same need (control mpv from my couch). I have found this: https://github.com/ndunks/xdotoolweb https://github.com/ndunks/xdotoolweb - I only have one use case so I only run it - using a simple shell script wrapper - together with mpv. It working fine for me, and it does not need a client on the mobile (except a browser), also it is not connected to the KDE ecosystem - if anyone else needs some lightweight solution for the same problem...
  - majewsky 8y ago
    KDE Connect can be used outside of KDE to a certain extent. I used the clipboard sharing on Sway (a Wayland compositor) by starting kdeconnectd manually in a terminal.
arendtio 8y ago
Yes, that pause on call feature is pretty cool. If you have the plasma-integration for your browser [1] installed it can even pause your Amazon Prime Video (or Youtube, ...). Assuming you are watching a video on the Amazon website and your phone rings, the video pauses automatically. As soon as the call is over, the video resumes automatically :D Sadly Spotify does something to not let the browser detect how to control the player :-/ (it works on many websites, just not on spotify.com) [1]: Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/plasma-integration/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/plasma-integr... [1]: Chromium: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/plasma-integration/cimiefiiaegbelhefglklhhakcgmhkai https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/plasma-integration...
- ClashTheBunny 8y ago
  You probably just need to hook into dbus. Do you know if it produces a media key? You can just add this script: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/spotify#D-Bus https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/spotify#D-Bus
  - RussianCow 8y ago
    The parent was talking about the website, spotify.com, not the desktop application.
- oelmekki 8y ago
  Regarding Spotify : I use its desktop client (an electron-like app, but using their own implementation of a browser, if I got this right), and it does properly work with Connect, as it implements the standard media player controls on desktop. I have an android wear, this allows me to play/pause, next/previous track volume up/down spotify running on my desktop from my wrist, this is super cool (although to be fair, you can also do that with the spotify app on mobile, used to control spotify on desktop). https://www.spotify.com/fr/download/linux/ https://www.spotify.com/fr/download/linux/
  - Vinnl 8y ago
    Unfortunately you can't install tracking protection for their desktop app, so you'll have to mess with a Pi-Hole or modifying your hosts file or something...
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sametmax 8y ago
Yes, it rocks. kitinerary also looks promissing : https://github.com/KDE/kitinerary https://github.com/KDE/kitinerary
floatboth 8y ago
> use the phone as a trackpad Heh, I remember an app like that in the Apple world from back when the iPhone 4 was new. Does it pause any D-Bus MPRIS compatible player? How deeply KDE-specific is it, in general?
- emilsedgh 8y ago
  It does pause and it's not KDE specific at all. There are Gnome parts to it and if I recall it also works in Windows.
lph 8y ago
KDE Connect is really fantastic. I recently switched to an iPhone and I miss KDE Connect so much :( Now I have to go through all kinds of ridiculous antics just to copy a file over to my phone, when it used to be so easy.

by Jedd 8y ago

majewsky 8y ago

> use the phone as a trackpad I use the remote control feature (not the trackpad part, but the virtual keyboard) extensively when controlling mpv from the couch. Particularly in conjunction with Hacker's Keyboard for special keys like Alt+F4.

szemet 8y ago
I did not hear about KDE connect (maybe because I do not use KDE), but had the exactly same need (control mpv from my couch). I have found this: https://github.com/ndunks/xdotoolweb https://github.com/ndunks/xdotoolweb - I only have one use case so I only run it - using a simple shell script wrapper - together with mpv. It working fine for me, and it does not need a client on the mobile (except a browser), also it is not connected to the KDE ecosystem - if anyone else needs some lightweight solution for the same problem...
- majewsky 8y ago
  KDE Connect can be used outside of KDE to a certain extent. I used the clipboard sharing on Sway (a Wayland compositor) by starting kdeconnectd manually in a terminal.

arendtio 8y ago

Yes, that pause on call feature is pretty cool. If you have the plasma-integration for your browser [1] installed it can even pause your Amazon Prime Video (or Youtube, ...). Assuming you are watching a video on the Amazon website and your phone rings, the video pauses automatically. As soon as the call is over, the video resumes automatically :D Sadly Spotify does something to not let the browser detect how to control the player :-/ (it works on many websites, just not on spotify.com) [1]: Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/plasma-integration/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/plasma-integr... [1]: Chromium: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/plasma-integration/cimiefiiaegbelhefglklhhakcgmhkai https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/plasma-integration...

ClashTheBunny 8y ago
You probably just need to hook into dbus. Do you know if it produces a media key? You can just add this script: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/spotify#D-Bus https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/spotify#D-Bus
- RussianCow 8y ago
  The parent was talking about the website, spotify.com, not the desktop application.
oelmekki 8y ago
Regarding Spotify : I use its desktop client (an electron-like app, but using their own implementation of a browser, if I got this right), and it does properly work with Connect, as it implements the standard media player controls on desktop. I have an android wear, this allows me to play/pause, next/previous track volume up/down spotify running on my desktop from my wrist, this is super cool (although to be fair, you can also do that with the spotify app on mobile, used to control spotify on desktop). https://www.spotify.com/fr/download/linux/ https://www.spotify.com/fr/download/linux/
- Vinnl 8y ago
  Unfortunately you can't install tracking protection for their desktop app, so you'll have to mess with a Pi-Hole or modifying your hosts file or something...

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sametmax 8y ago

Yes, it rocks. kitinerary also looks promissing : https://github.com/KDE/kitinerary https://github.com/KDE/kitinerary

floatboth 8y ago

> use the phone as a trackpad Heh, I remember an app like that in the Apple world from back when the iPhone 4 was new. Does it pause any D-Bus MPRIS compatible player? How deeply KDE-specific is it, in general?

emilsedgh 8y ago
It does pause and it's not KDE specific at all. There are Gnome parts to it and if I recall it also works in Windows.

lph 8y ago

KDE Connect is really fantastic. I recently switched to an iPhone and I miss KDE Connect so much :( Now I have to go through all kinds of ridiculous antics just to copy a file over to my phone, when it used to be so easy.