On 4 August 2015 at 20:14, Roger Searle <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, I am looking for list wisdom / experience with software that plays nice > between a recent Ubuntu and Android tablets / phones, for the transfer of > photos, music, movies over wifi. The more user friendly the better as this > is primarily for family members who are not technical. > > I've had a look at AirDroid which partly fits the bill, the non-friendly > aspect to that is the need to navigate the android file system - I can work > it out but others are going to have little chance. Are there some better > options anyone knows of?
Depending on the task: - If I'm fetching only a handful of small files and I'm feeling lucky about network reliability, SSH + GhostCommander[1] on the android side. - If I'm pushing a single file from an app to my computer, TurboFTP[2] + SSH tends to be more convenient ( Its just smarter at going "hey, X app has a file, punt it over the wire once its open" ) For anything more serious than that, I'll boot up SSHelper[3], and then remote in from my computer and do the replication with rsync. Rsync is much more versatile with large data loads and large volumes of files to not entirely bodge it up when you need to resume the transfer after your network flakes out. "network flaking" was a huge problem for me on my samsung stock rom, because for no apparent reason, it would get the wifi connection running at dialup speed, and the stock rom would tell me that the wifi in front of me was too slow, and that it would rather push my bits over the cell tower over 1Km away because it was somehow faster .... That problem pretty much evaporated when I Cyanogen'd it. :) Here's an excerpt from the little script I use locally to make it easier to just "push" whole directories of data to my phone once the ssh helper has done its job: target="root@kent:/storage/extSdCard/$2" rsync -rvthz --include "*/" --include="*.mp3" --exclude "*" --rsh='ssh -p 2222' --progress "$1" "$target" The "kent" alias is actually set up somehow by the sshelper so it just resolves locally like that. 1: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ghostsq.commander https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ghostsq.commander.sftp 2: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=turbo.client 3: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.arachnoid.sshelper -- Kent KENTNL - https://metacpan.org/author/KENTNL _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
