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Download Syncthing (Play store) on both devices and have them sync the camera folder. Syncthing will automatically sync the photos between the phones (even if you're not on the same network) and the Pixel 1 can backup the photos from the 5a to Google Photos at unlimited quality.
Of course this isn't an elegant solution, you would have to have the Pixel 1 always on or at some point pull it out to let it sync and upload. It would be much easier to just get the Pixel 5.
Syncthing has been my go-to for years. Effective, safe, and Open Source.
The Android UI isn't fantastic, but once you configure it you don't have to see it again.
I do a similar thing with mp3 files on my phone/laptop using Syncthing.
The folder and it's contents are basically shared between both my phone and my laptop so that when I delete or add something on my phone it gets deleted or added on my laptop and vice versa.
This requires a bit of set up since you must link your laptop syncthing app to your phone's app, but I find it to work quite fast once it's all set up.
Since one of your concerns is that your phone's camera doesn't save to a custom folder, in Syncthing you can just specify that you want your DCIM (or whatever folder the pictures are regularly stored in) to be shared to a laptop folder.
Not exactly sure if there's an easier method or an app specifically for photos but hope this helps.
Since BitTorren Sync pissed me off I've been using Syncthing. It works very well.
It appears that the hardest part of syncing is two-way, as you request. Syncthing have never failed me yet, like all other solutions I've tries.
You need to install it on both the phone and the PC (and any other device), but you really need that for any properly working two-way sync.
Maybe look into Syncthing, it takes a bit to set up at first as you'll have to link a folder on your PC to a folder on your phone. Likewise to sync them you will need to open the app on both devices but it syncs pretty fast. I use this for both images and music (also using MusicBee on my laptop and Nyx on my s10e).
Try syncthing. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nutomic.syncthingandroid
Install the app both on 4xl and 1, then select the camera folder as symc directory. Set 4xl as sender and 1 as receiver.
Syncthing, as the name implies, does syncronization, it's not a client-server architecture like google drive, nextcloud, etc. It's all peer-to-peer.
It's pretty easy to setup:
- Take a backup
- Install the app on all devices
- When opening the app, grant the storage permissions. Beware that pre-6.x Android devices might not have SAF (Storage Access Framework), which may limit your ability to write to folders stored in SDCards in some configurations
- Go to the Devices tab, click the + sign
- Go to another device, and click on the hamburger menu -> show QR code
- Scan the QR code from the first device
- Repeat until all devices are added
- Go to the DCIM/Camera folder item on the Folder tab, share this with your pixel
- On the pixel, accept the share, but and I recommend picking a different folder/empty folder as a target, this way it's guaranteed to not overwrite anything.
Take a look at Syncthing by Felix Ableitner.[EDIT: as already mentioned by 5ylph10]
I haven't tried it yet but would be very interested in your opinion in comparison to FolderSync as I myself am contemplating installing these two.
You could look into Syncthing. It's decentralized (doesn't depend on a central system so the outage risk is non-existent), it's open-source and it's free.
Also works on desktop platforms like Windows, OSX and Linux.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nutomic.syncthingandroid
This is exactly what you're looking for. Perfectly mirrored folders. Wifi, 4g, doesn't matter.
Open gallery on tablet, take photo with phone, watch it appear in tablet gallery within seconds.
Delete photo on tablet, watch it disappear on phone.
HOWEVER, the act of doing this is a huge battery drain. There's options to only let it run during certain conditions. I set it to only run when power saving mode is off. It really does work very well. Might want to backup stuff before this runs for the first time.
Instructions: add your devices by scanning the barcodes. Add identical folders for each device.
I found Syncthing to be the most convenient. It syncs folders between the phone and the computer, just put whatever you need to use across devices and it'll automatically appear in all the devices you've synced. Here's the app, and here's the website to download the Windows 10 application.
If anyone’s looking for a peer to peer syncing solution without a middle man, Syncthing is free and open source and works superbly for this. I sync my music, photos, keepass, and screenshots between all my devices using it.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nutomic.syncthingandroid
Are we talking about Syncthing or Syncthing-Fork ?
>For example, automatically start sync when wifi is connected or charging and automatically stop sync when wifi disconnects or not charging.
That's what both apps are already offering without the need to rely on thirdparty apps. I have Syncthing-Fork configured this way and have no problems with my battery.
Syncthing-Fork also offers to run on a fixed schedule. It will start syncing every hour for 5 minutes.
If you're wanting to actually upload the music to google play music, they have a piece of software you can install and it'll auto-upload whatever is in the folders you're watching.
If you just want to sync music between your pc and android, I use syncthing
I too use keepass on my computer and keepass2Android on my phone and tablet. I use syncthing to sync the databases. The result is pretty seemless when set up. Sometimes I have to enter the full password to unlock the database file because it was updated.. But that's about it. This setup also works with the offline version of keepass2android as the app itself doesn't send or downloand the file.
Depends on how you want to go around it. You can connect the phone to a computer and you can change it to a camera device and use something to get the photos off that way.
If you want something automatic to download as and when she takes a photo and returns home, I would recommend Syncthing, which you can install on multiple systems as well. I would set the phone up as a master device so you clear photos on the phone to get the same thing happen on the synced machines. You can then have a script setup to do backups of the folder, but that's more about the Linux server than the phone.
EDIT:
SyncThing Web Page: https://syncthing.net/
Syncthing App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nutomic.syncthingandroid&hl=en_GB
Syncthing for life:
- on Pop_OS you can install it from Pop_Shop
- Android app on Google Play or F-Droid
Well, you are in luck with an on/off button, but you have to put it together yourself.
Assuming you are using this android app, you can take advantage of remote intents to set up a quick settings tile that toggles syncthing with an automation app like tasker.
Good luck!
Check out Syncthing for smartdevice to computer backup. I have a 15x6tb RAID6 NAS storage unit that I've attached to my computer over gigabit ethernet. So all in all having my phone connected to my computer via Syncthing which is tied into the NAS storage system has made my life a little simpler.
On Android I use syncthing to automatically back up photos to my NAS anytime I am on my home wifi and it works great. A quick google reveals there is at least one iOS native syncthing client called "Mobius Sync". Might be worth a try.
Doesn't that app support fixing Exif data based on filename? Unless they're img_000001.jpg in which case your low on luck unless you can find a file sync app which syncs to a PC.
Or maybe syncthing? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nutomic.syncthingandroid
For phone I have used the official Android app from syncthing for years.
The only issues I've had with it was on spotty wifi causing high battery drain, but with some tweaking it becomes a non issue. Reliability had been nearly set and forget it.
As for a NAS, you can buy appliances like Synology. I have a number of servers at my house so I run TrueNAS on one, which is probably overkill for most.
I follow the 3-2-1 rule for backing things up.
> at least 3 copies of the data, stored on 2 different types of storage media, and one copy should be kept offsite, in a remote location (this can include cloud storage).
First copy is in the syncthing network (ssd media, phone flash, hdds), technically on nearly all my devices which is more than a single source but I only count it as one. Second gets backed up to TrueNAS. Final copy is off-site to backblaze (b2).
A similar question was asked not too long ago so im just going to copy and paste my answer below because I use musicbee on my laptop and nyx music player on my phone.
Currently do this with an app called Syncthing, it takes a little bit to set up the first time as you have to link the shared folders. Sadly its not an automatic thing as you will have to sync them through the apps everytime you want both libraries to update, but its pretty useful for
both adding and deleting songs.
Hmm, I have a similar setup but I'm using it for different purposes. I'm syncing photos I shoot with my phone to my nas and then backing up my nas to the cloud. So it's the opposite direction of what you want!
I just run youtube-dl periodically under cron. As others have mentioned you can manually put the URLs to channels in a text file and tell youtube-dl to download from all of the channels in the file. It's. --batch-file. You can also use --download-archive so that you can delete/move the video files after you watch them and youtube-dl won't download them again.
As for copying them to your phone - I use Syncthing to move stuff onto and off of my phone automatically.
So the pipeline would be:
- Put channel URLs in a text file
- Cron runs youtube-dl
- Youtube-dl downloads videos from those channels and saves them into a directory Syncthing is set up to sync
- When you're home, Syncthing copies all the videos to your phone
Syncthing to automate this between two android devices https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nutomic.syncthingandroid
There is a desktop application as well, you can basically set up your pixel as the "hub" that everything dumps to, turning off Google photos backup on all other devices and only uploading from your pixel. I'm doing this with my original pixel.
If you want something really privacy friendly you can use Syncthing to sync the photos between all your devices and cut out the middle man random cloud service provider out of the picture.
I use it for just this purpose and have a script that I run on my desktop once a week or so that will copy the full sized pictures to a separate folder and then downscale all my pictures to about 500kb each. This way my phone/tablet storage is not being chewed through by HQ pictures and I have access to all of them, and if I ever want to do a print I have the full sized HQ copy stored on my 12B desktop drive.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nutomic.syncthingandroid
I use ImageMagick to resize all the pictures: https://dototot.com/imagemagick-tutorial-batch-resize-images-command-line/
What about using the app that provides the best workflow on your mobile device and using something like Syncthing or its fork for syncing with your desktop?
If the game doesn't support Cloud Save, but it saves to the SDCard area, you can use Syncthing to keep your saves synced
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nutomic.syncthingandroid
Some games save their saves to an inaccessible area of the phone. Those games can't have their saves transferred. Sadly too many games are this way :(
I haven't tried this myself and I don't know how well it work on Chromebooks, but maybe Syncthing would work?
Just saw how you can't fit all the files on your phone. Nevermind, sorry.
Check out Syncthing. It’s a peer to peer file syncing tool that syncs the files between all your devices. I use this to sync my Joplin notes, screenshots, and pictures between my phone, tablet, and 2 computers.
Syncthing - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nutomic.syncthingandroid
Definitely Syncthing is the best backup and syncing tool so far for Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nutomic.syncthingandroid - I use it to backup Images and WhatsApp Directories - Sync of Files, Example: Passwordmanager-File from and to other Devices
Meanwhile I think the best Syncthing Device is an old Android Phone. This has several of advantages:
- most of the people have still an unused Android Phone lying arround
- small size
- low power usage
- battery backup holds up several hours in case of power outage
- Camera to Scan Device ID QR-Codes
- good chance to support full device encryption
optional: - add a SIM Card to have backup for Wifi outage
I am using: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nutomic.syncthingandroid
I personally use syncthing, a free p2p app (android, iOS, windows etc). You and the receiver need the app.
Syncthing replaces proprietary sync and cloud services with something open, trustworthy and decentralized. Your data is your data alone and you deserve to choose where it is stored.
Syncthing -> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nutomic.syncthingandroid
I've been using Syncthing for a purpose very similiar to this for about 2 years now. You install the client on both your PC, and phone, and any other device you want to sync files between and tell it which folders to sync and then just forget about it. Everytime you make a change on 1 device, it gets copied over to your others ones.
I use this to sync all my screenshots between my desktop, laptop, phone and Tablet.
Personally, I use Syncthing.
I basically have it set up like this:
- Desktop app installed on my computer and Android app installed on my phone.
- Set up a two-way sync between a
Photosfolder on my phone andPhotos/synchthing-Pixelfolder on my desktop computer. - When I take photos on the phone, Syncthing copies them to the desktop computer.
- If I want to free up space on my phone, I would go to my desktop computer and move some photos out of the
Photos/syncthing-Pixelfolder and into some other folder. To Synchthing, it would look like the files were deleted on the desktop, so due to the two-way sync, it would apply those deletes on the phone too. Unfortunately there's no easy way to initiate a delete from the phone and keep a copy on the desktop computer, though. - In theory, Syncthing expects to be running all the time, which is definitely understandable but still annoying. I just run it manually from time to time and then choose "Exit" from the menu to stop it.
I installed syncthing on pc and phone. Honestly it is a very good photos and content "get off the device to pc" method. (You need to build a process suitable for you)
I dont go the google route of backup everything to google because of this.
Notifications and vibrations : , every annoying notification is toggled off ( you gotta read the notification sub label of which part is triggering the notification )
It is subtly, but choice is there. I have notifs enabled only for Non group- 1-1 people communications And few labels in gmail . Plus the SMS for bank transactions
Browser wise : to get ads away, my default browser is Firefox. So reddit linked articles open in Firefox
For all google activity there is always chrome
Youtube vanced, blocoda are another faves.
Rocket player somehow gives a lot better audio quality than any other music player. (Jrt stuudios)
Solid explorer is a well thought out file manager.
Plex , vlc, toastercast for video
Snapseed, Pixlr, typeitpro ,photoshop express for photos needs
Have you tried Syncthing? Probably with that you wouldn't need FTP and static IP.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nutomic.syncthingandroid
I can't recommend Syncthing enough. For Android it's available through the Play Store as well as F-Droid.
I got it setup this week to sync folders (like my camera folder on phone) between my laptops and phones. It was easy enough to setup with this guide and the documentation.
Now my phones sync with my laptops and vice versa while on home network and connected to a charger. You can customize the when to run settings.
Or you could use Syncthing:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nutomic.syncthingandroid
Check out Syncthing,
Open source and Cross-Platform (Windows/mac/Linux)
> Foldersync
Syncthing maybe?
Or you could use Syncthing:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nutomic.syncthingandroid
Syncthing works pretty well too.
It helps to do a pc sync on local network . Is pretty good.
I use Syncthing
It has plenty of clients for all operating systems too.
I use Syncthing-GTK on my desktop (there's also Syncthing-MacOS) and Android, and set it to sync both ways some folders when charging and on specific WiFi networks.
You gotta register each devices together (once you add one, the other device will be prompted to add it back after a bit of time), then you'll be able to choose a folder on one and share it to another registered device.
It's open-source, it's free, all communications between the devices are encrypted, and it's peer-to-peer based.
Certainly, you could use something like Syncthing to get those specific calendar/address book files transferred between your desktop/laptop and your Android device. It's relatively easy to use, though I am not sure if it will work with your use case - can't say first hand yes or no.
This should allow you to sync your Korganizer/Kaddressbook items, without a third party (for the most part). There's a nice guide on setting Syncthing up on the Arch Wiki. I believe there's also a respective Android app that you'll need to download for it to work, along with said application on your desktop.
Syncthing works great. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nutomic.syncthingandroid
Syncthing works well for me. Even better it is open source.
Interesting, but I think Syncthing is a huge lot better since it is open-source:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nutomic.syncthingandroid
Consider syncthing
Edit: link. On mobile, links are hard bruh
Logseq - Certainly changed the way my workflows and productivity after started using it. Have tried a couple of similar apps before but as a beginner (in note taking digitally) everything seemed cluttered. LogSeq too sometimes feel personally a bit cluttered but that doesn't change the easiness of using it.
Syncthing - I'm not worried of syncing the devices data (and also backing up) to my PCs and Pis. Every data is everywhere and one of a definite life changer. Have used this app a while back but only recently I actually started using it the right way.
Easy Drawer - Had used many quick drawer apps even during the Gingerbread days maybe, but most of them stopped getting updates with the newer Android versions, so almost stopped using it, also didn't find any newer drawer apps since then. So recently just searched for one and suddenly find this simple drawer app with search. Now it's too easy to find and launch apps (from 500+ installed) very quickly.
You might try SyncThing or more specifically, SyncTrayzor as it will give you a tray icon and set things up. There's an official app for Android. On android, you'll want to exit the app from its menu when you're finished if you care about battery life.
SyncThing has a nice Android app and might solve your problem in a different way.
There is definitely an android app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nutomic.syncthingandroid&hl=en_US&gl=US
There are iOS clients and a Beta client from Syncthing:
https://www.mobiussync.com/ (3rd party client)
https://testflight.apple.com/join/Z4dmMzO4 (beta client, no idea of its status)
And Syncthing Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Syncthing/
Obsidian (which you already use) synced across your devices (Mac, Android device, iPhone anything) using syncthing. (This is a free workaround you can use for syncing rather than paying $10/mo for Obsidian sync [which is worth every penny if you use it to it's fullest extent though])
Syncthing - for PC/Mac
If setting up your iOS Obsidian Mobile app to open your vault is difficult, you can use Taio ( a markdown editor) to view/edit your vault on your iPhone.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nutomic.syncthingandroid
Takes a little effort to get set up. But once it's up and running it's flawless.
Sync them in real-time using Syncthing
Super short version with links:
This is the utility for windows (with gui): https://github.com/canton7/SyncTrayzor
This is for the phone: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nutomic.syncthingandroid
More info about these apps: https://syncthing.net
Both devices needs to be on the same network unless you want to open ports into outside world but i would not do that so syncing happens only when you are at home network.
One tutorial i found: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/let-syncthing-turn-your-desktop-into-a-local-cloud-for-your-mobile-device/
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Basically you just select folders what to sync and which direction.
Check out "Syncthing" - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nutomic.syncthingandroid
Check out syncthing
My file sync solution is syncthing; for my windows machines there's synctrayzor as frontend (the dev is also pretty cool), on my phone I use the syncthing app.
I'm not aware of it doing "only sync specific files", but you can for sure set up specific folders to sync, and only to specific devices.
Syncthing is a FOSS app which does the same thing and it is better.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nutomic.syncthingandroid
+1 for keepass. I use syncthing to keep the database in sync with my other devices.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nutomic.syncthingandroid
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Hey there, fellow Pixel 1 user too. I went searching past threads from here because I remember stumbling across where someone asked a similar question.
/u/hquynh recommended using SyncThings to connect the two phones to wirelessly transfer over the photos taken on new device to Pixel 1 and then upload from Pixel 1
found a post about transferring photos/files between 2 devices with a PC
/u/spxak1 wrote a post where things uploaded from Pixel 1 regardless of which device took the photo/video is granted the original quality
Hope this helps! Because I been using my Pixel 1 for about 2+ years now. AccuBattery list the battery degradation around ~81% now, battery life is pretty terrible and phone gets warm/hot often/ Gaming is a no, phone gets scorching hot and untouchable. Game that was played was Horizon Chase
Sync your game saves with your devices using Syncthing https://syncthing.net/ _ https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nutomic.syncthingandroid
Or with cloud drives
https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=MetaCtrl
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=pl.solidexplorer2
https://mixplorer.com/ _ https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=23109280
Maybe another option for you Tiny scanner has a free version, maybe coupled with sync thing, which is open source
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nutomic.syncthingandroid
I use syncthing. It's relatively easy to setup, open source, multiplatform and quite fast.
Use syncthing on both macbook and android. https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/releases
For android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nutomic.syncthingandroid&hl=en_IN
Relying on Syncthing for, well, syncing.
Yes, use Syncthing (or syncthing fork) to streamline the process
É um projecto ativo, não sei muitos detalhes até porque não sou um dev, mas continuam a atualizar regularmente e o pessoal que contribui para o projecto é bastante ativo no fórum de suporte.
Para mim é estável e faz o que quero bastante bem (manter pastas sincronizadas entre dispositivos). Uso isto desde 2015... antes usava o Dropbox, depois passei para o BTSync durante alguns meses, mas depois de testar o Syncthing nunca mais usei outra coisa.
Até agora não tive problemas. No total tenho quase 2TB em vários telemóveis, pc's e portáteis em sistemas diferentes (Windows, Mac e Android). O Syncthing tem uma coisa "chata" para quem usa vários sistemas operativos: para funcionar bem, também tem que transferir os ficheiros "escondidos" do sistema (.DS_Store, desktop.ini, etc). Não é um grande problema e estão a trabalhar para corrigir isto.
Para tornar a minha vida mais fácil uso o Syncthing Bar for OS-X no portátil, SyncTrayzor em computadores com Windows e a app para Android. Acho que este é um dos pontos fracos do projecto: sem apps oficiais para os OSes mais usados, é mais difícil por um utilizador normal a usar o Syncthing.
That should work out fine, then! If for some reason it doesn't, you could give SyncThing a shot.
You could try Syncthing by setting the folder rescan interval to 24h, or simply only enable syncthing when it's charging and on wifi (those are default syncthing options so you won't need Tasker)
I use it to keep pictures and stuff backed up. Don't know wether backing up your whole SD card might cause some problems though.
Debian/Ubuntu install instructions for your server
For windows I'd recommend SyncTrayzor (This adds a pretty UI and makes the folder scan interval obsolete)
If you need any help or want some more info just ask.