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It is for syncing files, not transferring or serving them. I don’t think it’s really possible to make an iOS app for Syncthing. It’s not like there’s a Dropbox

by jchw 6y ago

It is for syncing files, not transferring or serving them. I don’t think it’s really possible to make an iOS app for Syncthing. It’s not like there’s a Dropbox client for iOS that does actual folder sync. If you are looking to fully replace Dropbox, you need a server to serve files off of that you can access from the Internet. You could do this using a NAS running Syncthing for example. (There’s at least a couple different ways to get it working on a Synology NAS.) That way, you could have a CIFS or WebDAV share to actually browse from mobile devices.

frosted-flakes 6y ago
It works great on Android. It's completely replaced my use of Google Photos and OneDrive (except for the rare use of sharing photos), and I keep local copies of everything. Phones these days have oodles of storage, so why not? (my phone has 256 GB internal storage, plus a microSD card slot which can more than double that).
OneLeggedCat 6y ago
No one seems to know about it, but there is now a 3rd party app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/m%C3%B6bius-sync/id1539203216 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/m%C3%B6bius-sync/id1539203216 The developer made it with a little help from the syncthing team. There are comments there: https://forum.syncthing.net/t/mobius-sync-ios-client-now-in-beta/15846 https://forum.syncthing.net/t/mobius-sync-ios-client-now-in-... I've been using it for some months, and it works fine, when it works. I sometimes have to start it manually because iOS killed it in the background.
- darkwater 6y ago
  Can you sync automatically photos/videos taken from the camera? That's my #1 for Syncthing on Android
  - vinw 6y ago
    I'm just trying it out and it seems not, iOS doesn't expose the photos folder to the app. My workaround for this has been to install iCloud on a Windows machine which then downloads all the photos from my phone, and Syncthing on Windows monitors the iCloud folder and shares it with a Linux machine that does my backups. A bit convoluted but it works.
    - darkwater 6y ago
      You can probably use icloudpd [1] to consolidate that on just a Linux machine, as I'm (more or less) doing now. I'm saying more or less because we ran out of iCloud space, I still don't want to delte forever old photos from iCloud but I should probably do it. [1] https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_downloader https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_do...
      - vinw 6y ago
        Thanks, looks like I've already starred this project on github, but I can't remember why I'm not using it... I think maybe the auth token expires every few weeks and you need some manual intervention to get it working again.
        darkwater 6y ago
        That's true but it can notify you when it's failing.
  - OneLeggedCat 6y ago
    Unfortunately I don't think so. Apple walls off those photos very effectively. I gave up trying to sync those, and instead use an app called Copy That to get them off the phone and onto a SAMBA share on my network.
wereHamster 6y ago
Resilio Sync does have an iOS app. And I've used it a couple times, when I needed access to my documents while on the go.
AshamedCaptain 6y ago
You can store "files" on iOS. Just store them on the app's private directory, then offer a launcher service or "file browser" of some sort. And apparently these days they do offer a shared storage space, anyway.

by jchw 6y ago

frosted-flakes 6y ago

It works great on Android. It's completely replaced my use of Google Photos and OneDrive (except for the rare use of sharing photos), and I keep local copies of everything. Phones these days have oodles of storage, so why not? (my phone has 256 GB internal storage, plus a microSD card slot which can more than double that).

OneLeggedCat 6y ago

No one seems to know about it, but there is now a 3rd party app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/m%C3%B6bius-sync/id1539203216 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/m%C3%B6bius-sync/id1539203216 The developer made it with a little help from the syncthing team. There are comments there: https://forum.syncthing.net/t/mobius-sync-ios-client-now-in-beta/15846 https://forum.syncthing.net/t/mobius-sync-ios-client-now-in-... I've been using it for some months, and it works fine, when it works. I sometimes have to start it manually because iOS killed it in the background.

darkwater 6y ago
Can you sync automatically photos/videos taken from the camera? That's my #1 for Syncthing on Android
- vinw 6y ago
  I'm just trying it out and it seems not, iOS doesn't expose the photos folder to the app. My workaround for this has been to install iCloud on a Windows machine which then downloads all the photos from my phone, and Syncthing on Windows monitors the iCloud folder and shares it with a Linux machine that does my backups. A bit convoluted but it works.
  - darkwater 6y ago
    You can probably use icloudpd [1] to consolidate that on just a Linux machine, as I'm (more or less) doing now. I'm saying more or less because we ran out of iCloud space, I still don't want to delte forever old photos from iCloud but I should probably do it. [1] https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_downloader https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_do...
    - vinw 6y ago
      Thanks, looks like I've already starred this project on github, but I can't remember why I'm not using it... I think maybe the auth token expires every few weeks and you need some manual intervention to get it working again.
      - darkwater 6y ago
        That's true but it can notify you when it's failing.
- OneLeggedCat 6y ago
  Unfortunately I don't think so. Apple walls off those photos very effectively. I gave up trying to sync those, and instead use an app called Copy That to get them off the phone and onto a SAMBA share on my network.

wereHamster 6y ago

Resilio Sync does have an iOS app. And I've used it a couple times, when I needed access to my documents while on the go.

AshamedCaptain 6y ago

You can store "files" on iOS. Just store them on the app's private directory, then offer a launcher service or "file browser" of some sort. And apparently these days they do offer a shared storage space, anyway.